Kubernetes 1.35 (2026) brings ML job orchestration, cluster-level automation, network observability, and Gateway API conformance. See what's new and how to upgrade.
Kubernetes 1.34 “Nova” brings AI-aware scheduling, WASM runtime integration, CRI v2, unified observability, and stronger security for edge and data workloads.
Kubernetes 1.30, codenamed 'Uwubernetes', delivers 45 enhancements with 17 features graduating to stable, including Native Sidecar Containers (Beta), Gateway API GA, PodSchedulingReadiness (GA), JobSet API (Beta), enhanced security policies, and improved developer tooling. This release emphasizes developer experience, network traffic management maturity, and workload scheduling predictability.
Kubernetes 1.6 delivered support for 5000-node clusters, improved multi-user scheduling and security (RBAC), dynamic storage provisioning and more — a major scale & stability milestone.