Posts in 2026
Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS
By Qi Wang (Red Hat), Sohan Kunkerkar (Red Hat) | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Blog
On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first โฆ
Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers
By Michael Aspinwall (Google) | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in Blog
Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect โฆ
Kubernetes v1.36: Mutable Pod Resources for Suspended Jobs (beta)
By Kevin Hannon (Red Hat) | Monday, April 27, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.36 promotes the ability to modify container resource requests and limits in the pod template of a suspended Job to beta. First introduced as alpha in v1.35, this feature allows queue controllers and cluster administrators to adjust CPU, โฆ
Kubernetes v1.36: Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorization Graduates to GA
By Vinayak Goyal (Google) | Friday, April 24, 2026 in Blog
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Auth and SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained kubelet API authorization to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.36! The KubeletFineGrainedAuthz feature gate was introduced as an opt-in โฆ
Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes are finally GA
By Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Amutable), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat) | Thursday, April 23, 2026 in Blog
After several years of development, User Namespaces support in Kubernetes reached General Availability (GA) with the v1.36 release. This is a Linux-only feature. For those of us working on low level container runtimes and rootless technologies, this โฆ
SELinux Volume Label Changes goes GA (and likely implications in v1.37)
By Jan ล afrรกnek (Red Hat) Swathi Rao (Independent) | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 in Blog
If you run Kubernetes on Linux with SELinux in enforcing mode, plan ahead: a future release (anticipated to be v1.37) is expected to turn the SELinuxMount feature gate on by default. This makes volume setup faster for most workloads, but it can break โฆ
Kubernetes v1.36: ใใซ (Haru)
By Kubernetes v1.36 Release Team | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 in Blog
Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases โฆ
Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 in Blog
The Kubernetes SIG Network community presents the release of Gateway API (v1.5)! Released on February 27, 2026, version 1.5 is our biggest release yet, and concentrates on moving existing Experimental features to Standard (Stable). The Gateway API โฆ
Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek
By Chad Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre | Monday, March 30, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle! Please note โฆ
Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API
By Beka Modebadze (Google), Steven Jin (Microsoft) | Friday, March 20, 2026 in Blog
With the Ingress-NGINX retirement scheduled for March 2026, the Kubernetes networking landscape is at a turning point. For most organizations, the question isn't whether to migrate to Gateway API, but how to do so safely. Migrating from Ingress to โฆ