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Kubernetes 1.33: Orion – Smarter Autoscaling and Enhanced Efficiency

Kubernetes 1.33, codenamed 'Orion', delivers 47 enhancements with 15 features graduating to stable, focusing on intelligent autoscaling, cost efficiency, enhanced observability, Gateway API maturity, and advanced security features. This release ushers in a new era of intelligent orchestration with predictive scaling, unified metrics pipeline, and comprehensive network policy improvements.

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Apr 9, 2025

Kubernetes 1.29: Mandala — Extending Performance and Security

Kubernetes 1.29, codenamed 'Mandala,' delivers 49 enhancements with 18 features graduating to stable, including Job lifecycle improvements, NodeLogQuery API (Alpha), KMS v2 as default for secret encryption, PodSecurity Admission enhancements, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 production readiness, and completed CSI migration. This release emphasizes performance optimization, security hardening, and improved observability for large-scale deployments.

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Dec 13, 2023

Kubernetes 1.28: Planternetes — Stability, Sustainability, and Scalability

Kubernetes 1.28, codenamed 'Planternetes,' focuses on platform stability and sustainability with 45 enhancements including KMS v2 API (GA), VolumeGroupSnapshots (Alpha), Node lifecycle improvements, completed CSI migration, and enhanced Pod readiness gates. This release emphasizes long-term reliability with 19 features graduating to stable, improved storage capacity tracking, and refined networking for dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 support.

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Aug 15, 2023

Kubernetes 1.27: Chill Vibes and Stable APIs

Kubernetes 1.27, codenamed 'Chill Vibes and Stable APIs,' introduces Sidecar Containers (Alpha), graduates CRD validation enhancements to GA, expands multi-architecture support, and improves observability with kubectl events GA. This stability-focused release includes 60 enhancements across API improvements, security enhancements, and extended platform compatibility for ARM64, RISC-V, PowerPC, and IBM Z architectures.

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Apr 11, 2023

Kubernetes 1.26: Electrifying the Core – Security, Scalability, and Modern APIs

Kubernetes 1.26, codenamed 'Electrifying the Core,' graduates Storage Capacity Tracking and Ephemeral Containers to GA. This release completes CSI migration, introduces SeccompDefault for enhanced security, and modernizes APIs with v1beta1 removals and improved CRD validation.

#kubernetes #1.26 #release #storage #api #scalability #security #runtime #storage-capacity-tracking #ephemeral-containers #seccomp #csi #crd #cronjob

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Dec 9, 2022

Kubernetes 1.25: PodSecurity GA and Extending Reliability

Kubernetes 1.25 graduates PodSecurity Admission to GA, completing the replacement of PodSecurityPolicy. This release finalizes CSI migration for major cloud providers, enhances network policy status tracking, and improves CronJob reliability with better scheduling logic.

#kubernetes #1.25 #release #podsecurity #csi #networking #kubectl #api #podsecuritypolicy #cronjob #network-policy #storage #security #ga

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Aug 23, 2022

Kubernetes 1.22: Major API Removals and Security Enhancements

Kubernetes 1.22 introduced major API removals, Server-Side Apply GA, Seccomp defaulting, ephemeral containers beta, and client-go modernization. This transformational release included 53 enhancements with 13 graduating to stable.

#kubernetes #1.22 #release #api #removals #seccomp #client-go #SSA #server-side-apply #ephemeral-containers #api-priority-fairness #go-1.16

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Aug 4, 2021

Kubernetes 1.21: PodSecurityPolicies Deprecation and Stability Advancements

Kubernetes 1.21 focused on security, stability, and long-term consistency, introducing immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps GA, graceful node shutdown GA, CronJobs GA, and the deprecation of PodSecurityPolicies. This release included 50 enhancements with 15 graduating to stable.

#kubernetes #1.21 #release #security #podsecuritypolicy #cronjob #graceful-shutdown #api #immutable-secrets #immutable-configmaps #csi #volume-health

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Apr 8, 2021