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

Week of January 25: 1.36 release cycle, non-pod DRA references, User Namespaces go beta. lwkd.info/2026/20260129 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending January 18: SIG Windows nominates new co-chairs, WG Structured Logging proposed to spin down, SIG Node seeks KEP Wrangler volunteers for v1.36, PRR Freeze set for February 4, and KYAML (KEP-5295) highlighted as a safer YAML format now in beta. lwkd.info/2026/20260122

Week Ending January 11: K8s v1.36 release cycle begins, with release leads selected; Kind preparing to adopt kubeadm v1beta4 configs with breaking changes; patch releases delayed a week & multiple observability, validation & scheduler improvements merged across the project. lwkd.info/2026/20260115

Happy New Year! Welcome to another year of Kubernetes development. Week Ending January 4: Kubernetes kicks off 2026 with SIG-Infra reorganizing test dashboards, the Kubernetes Dashboard archived in favor of Headlamp, and preparations underway for the v1.36 release cycle. lwkd.info/2026/20260108

Week Ending December 14: Kubernetes v1.35 released, SIG-etcd warning to update to etcd v3.5.26 before upgrading from v3.5 to v3.6, to prevent etcd clusters from reporting “zombie members”, last LWKD issue of 2025, see y'all next year! lwkd.info/2025/20251218 #kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource

Week Ending December 7: Maintainer proposals for KCEU are due, 1.35 rc1 is out, patch releases, Checkpoint/Restore WG. lwkd.info/2025/20251211 #kubernetes #CloudNative #containers

Week ending November 30: security hole in old Portworx driver, release highlights are due, Prometheus v3.8. lwkd.info/2025/20251203 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending November 16: Code Freeze, tons of feature promotions, pod generations Ingress-NGINX is going away next year. lwkd.info/2025/20251120 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week ending November 2: Steering Committee election results announced! v1.35 code freeze on November 7th, WG LTS shutting down, Kustomize project seeking proposals for new logo. lwkd.info/2025/20251106 #kubernetes #containers #cloudnative

Week ending October 26: One week left for v1.35 code freeze. Steering committee elections closed, results next week. Kubernetes Contributor Hour and SIG Meet and Greet at KubeCon NA lwkd.info/2025/20251031 #kubernetes #cloudnative #kubecon

Week ending October 19: final days to vote for Steering, etcd upgrade fix, node topology labels in pod, yet another Go update. lwkd.info/2025/20251022 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending October 12: vote for Steering, PRR/Enhancement freeze, NUMA topology, and we finally get a `-n` shortcut lwkd.info/2025/20251015 #kubernetes #containers #cloudnative

Week ending October 5: Enhancements Freeze on October 16th. cgroups v1 deprecation. And: Remember to vote in the Steering Election!! lwkd.info/2025/20251010 #kubernetes #cloudnative #Steeringelection

Week of September 28: Changes to PRR Freeze deadline from v1.35 release cycle, WG AI Gateway, Declarative APIs and Linters subproject under SIG API Machinery lwkd.info/2025/20251002 #kubernetes #opensource #CloudNative

Week of September 21: changes to Autoscaling and K8s-Infra leadership, Release is collecting 1.35 enhancements, and Yet Another GoLang Update lwkd.info/2025/20250925 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending September 14: Start of release cycle, C# security hole, MatchLabelKeys And: Remember to vote in the Steering Election!! lwkd.info/2025/20250918 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending September 7: release team shadows, secrets flaw, external signing of tokens, TooManyRequest, and losing Han Kang. And: remember to vote in the Steering election. lwkd.info/2025/20250911 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week Ending August 31: Steering committee nominations closes on Sep 8th. KubeCon NA Maintainer Summit schedule out. Shoutouts for the v1.34 release team lwkd.info/2025/20250904 #kubernetes #opensource #cncf

Week ending August 24: 1.34 release!!!, Steering Election starts, storage object counting, AppArmor support. lwkd.info/2025/20250827 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week Ending August 17: OwnerReferences security hole, patch releases, podCertificateRequestCleaner, speeding up cache reads lwkd.info/2025/20250820 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week ending August 10: SIG-Multicluster survey, SIG-Release meetings, Ordered Namespace Deletion lwkd.info/2025/20250814 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week ending July 27: v1.34 Code Freeze in effect! Docs freeze coming up August 6th! SIG Release meeting time updates. lwkd.info/2025/20250730 #kubernetes #opensource #cncf

Week Ending July 20: v1.34 CODE FREEZE in 2 days! Hugo segments in Kubernetes website, CEL enables list library, ordered namespace deletion lwkd.info/2025/20250723 #kubernetes #opensource #cloudnative

Week Ending July 13: AI Gateway working group proposed by SIG Network, KubeCon NA Maintainer Summit CFPs closing this weekend, v1.34 code freeze coming up next week. Patch releases 1.32.7 and 1.31.11 out! lwkd.info/2025/20250717 #kubernetes #cloudnative #cncf

Week Ending July 6: CODE FREEZE IS COMING!!! Also AI Conformance WG, Checkpoint WG, and Kubelet Tracing. lwkd.info/2025/20250709 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending June 29: Discussion about Slack migration closed for now. Kubernetes org membership cleanup ongoing, exceptions open till July 18th. KubeCon NA project lightning talk and maintainer track CFPs closing on July 7th. lwkd.info/2025/20250704 #kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource #kubecon

Week ending June 22: CFPs for KubeCon Maintainer Summit, OpenAPI formats for k8s-short-name and k8s-long-name, WG Policy is being archived after completing their work! lwkd.info/2025/20250627 #kubernetes #opensource #cncf

Week ending June 15: Slack being downgraded, first 1.34 alpha, security patch out tomorrow, pod level resource to beta lwkd.info/2025/20250617 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week ending June 8: Custom labels for leases, new traffic distribution options, patch releases postponed till next week. lwkd.info/2025/20250611 #Kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week of June 1: Structured Authentication config, policy on tracking enhancements. lwkd.info/2025/20250604 #Kubernetes, #Containers, #CloudNative

Week ending May 25: 1.34 begins, compatibility metrics, ENV variable naming, new versions of Minikube, vertical-pod-autoscaler, and Kubespray lwkd.info/2025/20250527 #containers #kubernetes #CloudNative

Week Ending May 11: Release shadow application, updated KEP template, matchLabelKeys lwkd.info/2025/20250514 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending May 4th: WG Node Lifecycle, release shadow application open, kubectl aliases, nosleep option for PreStop hooks. lwkd.info/2025/20250508 #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week ending April 27: E2E testing changes, AI-generated contributions, Traffic Distribution field, SELinux labelling. lwkd.info/2025/20250430 #kubernetes #CloudNative #containers

Week ending April 20: 1.33 released! Plus blogs, shoutouts, and patch releases. lwkd.info/2025/20250423 #kubernetes #CloudNative #containers

Week ending April 13: NHO, LFX mentorships, 1.33rc3 released, SIG Scheduling turnover, new working group, and did you know that K8s has a memory manager now? lwkd.info/2025/20250416 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending April 6: v1.33.0-rc.0 released, release date in less than 2 weeks! CNCF Maintainer Summit EU attendee surveys open till April 18th. lwkd.info/2025/20250411 #kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource #kubecon

Week of March 23: CRITICAL vulnerability in Ingress-Nginx (upgrade immediately!), docs and highlights due, Emulation Version, Container Stop Signals. lwkd.info/2025/20250325 See you at #Kubecon next week! #Kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week Ending March 16: Code Freeze is Coming, gitRepo volume security hole. lwkd.info/2025/20250319 #Kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending March 9: v1.33 Code freeze approaching. March patch releases out, KubeCon London Reminders lwkd.info/2025/20250312 #kubernetes #cloudnative #kubecon #opensource

Week Ending March 2: v1.33 Code freeze approaching. v1.32.3 cherry picks due by March 7. Kind based test jobs promoted to release-blocking. lwkd.info/2025/20250306 #kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource

Week Ending February 23: Docs placeholder PR deadline, SIG Meet and Greet, Unconference proposals open for KubeCon EU. Kuba Tużnik nominated as SIG Autoscaling chair. lwkd.info/2025/20250227 #kubernetes #cloudnative #kubecon

Week ending February 16: v1.33 Enhancements Freeze in effect! CNCF’s Mentoring team looking for Google Summer of Code mentorship tasks for GSOC 2025. lwkd.info/2025/20250220 #cloudnative #kubernetes #opensource

Week ending February 9: Enhancements freeze, Etcd mentoring, GA Sidecar containers lwkd.info/2025/20250212 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week Ending February 2: token expiration, partitionable devices, it's PRR time for 1.33: lwkd.info/2025/20250205 #Kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week ending January 26: PRR freeze coming, migrate your staging images off GCR now, terminatingReplicas endpoint. lwkd.info/2025/20250129 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week of January 19: Windows log security hole, 1.33 release schedule, DRA CEL size estimators lwkd.info/2025/20250123 #kubernetes #containers #CloudNative

Week of January 12: Please review your alpha/beta features, release schedule soon, DRA ReservedFor goes past 256 lwkd.info/2025/20250115 #kubernetes #Containers #CloudNative

Week of January 5: Maintainer Summit London CFPs closing soon, v1.33 release cycle starting next week, bug fix for kube-scheduler PodTopologySpread lwkd.info/2025/20250109 #kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource