Week Ending September 6: Kubernetes v1.38 release cycle started, KEP readiness deadline coming up on September 22nd AoE. Conditional authz, CSI global mount fallback, and more. lwkd.info/2026/20260911 #kubernetes #opensource #cloudnative

Week Ending August 30: Maintainer Summit, 1.38 begins, StatefulSet Terminating status lwkd.info/2026/20260904 #Kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending August 23: 1.37 is released! Plus lots of DRA improvements, in 1.37 and out of it. lwkd.info/2026/20260828 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending August 26: No more AI notetakers, Steering election is open, v1.37 is very soon, DRA ResourceClaims for Workloads. lwkd.info/2026/20260820 #Kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending August 9: Steering election voting begins, CI job recovery report, changing Pod UIDs, DRA health stats lwkd.info/2026/20260813 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending August 2: Steering candidates selected, CPU manager, Statefulset scaledown, NominatedNodeName lwkd.info/2026/20260806 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending July 26: we're in Code Freeze, first 1.37 beta, Steering Nominations close Monday, Checkpoint and Restore, and the last days of internal API types. lwkd.info/2026/20260730 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending July 12: Maintainer summit CFP closing on July 19th, etcd v3.7 released, v1.37 code freeze coming up next week on July 23rd lwkd.info/2026/20260716 #kubernetes #opensource #etcd

Week Ending July 5: Kubernetes v1.37 reaches its mid-cycle milestone with 86 enhancements, Feature Blog Freeze arrives July 10, etcd v3.7.0 is released with RangeStream, and WatchListCompression enabled by default for improved API server performance. lwkd.info/2026/20260711

Week Ending June 28: Docs placeholders for Kubernetes v1.37 are due July 2, SELinuxMount reaches GA, CBOR support expands to non-resource API endpoints, and Kubernetes shares how it’s adapting to AI-assisted contributions. lwkd.info/2026/20260702

Week ending June 21: Steering Committee nominations open, WG Node Identity, watchlist compression, relaxed DNS names, toleration operators lwkd.info/2026/20260626 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending June 7: Steering meeting, kiosk application for KCNA, NCO, DRA extended resource, and more: lwkd.info/2026/20260611 #kubernetes #CloudNative #containers

Week Ending May 31: SIG-etcd nominates Fu Wei as co-Tech Lead, Kubernetes v1.37 Production Readiness Freeze approaches on June 10, MaxUnavailableStatefulSet enabled by default, WatchCacheInitializationPostStartHook reaches GA, and etcd v3.7.0-rc.0 released for testing. lwkd.info/2026/20260605

Week ending May 24: 1.37 cycle begins, declarative validations, route controller lwkd.info/2026/20260524 #kubernetes #CloudNative #containers

Week Ending May 17: The 2026 Steering Election cycle begins; the Kubernetes v1.37 release cycle kicks off on May 18; Node Log Query reaches GA in v1.36; and CEL admission evaluation sees a 15% reduction in API server CPU through caching optimizations. lwkd.info/2026/20260522

Week Ending May 10: SIG Autoscaling nominates Jack Francis as new chair, v1.37 Release Team shadow applications close May 15, Kubernetes patch releases v1.33.12–v1.36.1 published, and new declarative validation guardrails plus conditional authorization work land for v1.37. lwkd.info/2026/20260514

Week Ending May 3: v1.37 release team shadow applications open! KubeCon NA and maintainer track CFPs open. Cherry picks due May 8th. lwkd.info/2026/20260507 #kubernetes #cloudnative

Week Ending April 26: Kubernetes v1.33 enters maintenance mode, AI Conformance moves to SIG Architecture mailing list, AI policy discussions continue around Copilot and CLA, and multiple kubeadm, scheduler, and kubectl fixes merged across the project. lwkd.info/2026/20260430

Week Ending April 19: Kubernetes v1.36 released with GA kubelet API auth and MutatingAdmissionPolicy, Workload Aware Scheduling features introduced, new GitHub Actions security policy enforced, and SIG etcd nominates Josh Berkus as co-chair. lwkd.info/2026/20260423

Week ending April 12: final countdown to 1.36, AI Usage Contribution Policy, SIG/WG changes, Service Account Token signing. lwkd.info/2026/20260416 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week Ending April 5: NVIDIA GPU DRA Driver joins SIG Node as a subproject, CPU DRA Driver v0.1.0 released, Kubernetes updates AI usage policy with mandatory disclosure rules, ingress-nginx Slack channels archived, and Docs Freeze for v1.36 set for April 9. lwkd.info/2026/20260409

Week Ending April 5, 2026

Developer News

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Week Ending March 29: etcd patch, Ingress issue, patch releases, GH repository changes, NodeLogQuery, and Partitionable Devices lwkd.info/2026/20260401 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

There will be no LWKD published next week (week ending March 22) because the LWKD team is at Kubecon, and it's code freeze anyways.

Week Ending March 15: KubeCon Europe kicks off next week with Maintainer Summit sold out, Code & Test Freeze for v1.36 begins March 19, ProcMountType promoted to GA, ingress-nginx nearing EOL on March 31, and multiple container isolation and scheduling improvements merged. lwkd.info/2026/20260313

Week ending March 8: NCO, Meet & Greet, Workload API, flagz, and ... lwkd.info/2026/20260311 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative #Kubecon

Week Ending March 1: Kubernetes v1.36.0-alpha.2 released, out-of-band patch releases (1.35.2–1.32.13) shipped with CVE fixes, Code & Test Freeze set for Mar 19, and multiple features promoted including MutableCSINodeAllocatableCount to GA. lwkd.info/2026/20260305

Week Ending February 22: WG Serving disbanded after completing its mission, ingress-nginx reaches EOL March 31, Feature Blog Freeze closes Feb 27, Code & Test Freeze set for March 19, and MutatingAdmissionPolicy promoted to GA. lwkd.info/2026/20260226

Week Ending February 15: Maintainer Summit EU registration opens, v1.36 Feature Blog Freeze Feb 27, patch releases (1.35.1–1.32.12) published, HPA validation moved to Declarative Validation, CustomCPUCFSquota GA & kubeadm drops integrated flex-volume support ahead of v1.36. lwkd.info/2026/20260219

Week Ending February 8: Kubernetes v1.36.0-alpha.1 is live ahead of the Enhancements Freeze on Feb 11, ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner promoted to GA, RealFIFO graduated to GA, and KEP-5573 highlights the planned removal of cgroup v1 support. lwkd.info/2026/20260211

Week Ending February 1: Ingress-Nginx announced EOL in March, Node Readiness Controller launched under K8s-sigs, SIG leadership updates shared, v1.36 PRR and Enhancements Freeze deadlines nearing, and DeclarativeValidation graduated to GA with kubectl kuberc promoted to beta lwkd.info/2026/20260205