LWKD: Week Ending June 1, 2025
Week Ending June 1, 2025
Developer News
The Enhancements subteam issued a reminder about tracking changes. Contributors must opt in for tracking if their KEP includes user-facing changes or behavior affecting improvements, even if the KEP doesn't graduate to a new stage. Pure refactors, non-behavioural improvements, and bug fixes do not require tracking by the Release Team.
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: PRR Freeze, June 12th
This is the last week-and-a-half before those KEPs need to be ready for production readiness review with all the PRR questions answered.
Cherry-picks for the June Patch Releases are due on June 6.
KEP of the Week
KEP-3331: Structured Authentication Config
This KEP introduces the capability to add structured authentication configuration to the Kubernetes API server, using a new API Object called AuthenticationConfiguration. It supports a JWT token, which serves as the next stage for the OIDC authenticator. Previously, authentication for the API server was performed using command-line flags, which were difficult to manage, validate, and lacked consistency. The KEP implements the Kubernetes API schema for validation and provides a standardized, extensible format, improving configuration clarity.
This KEP is tracked as stable in v1.34.
Other Merges
- kuberc adds tests for DefaultGetPreferences
- PVCs annotated with node-expand-not-required to not be expanded
- Pod admission and resize logic moved into the allocation manager
- Stress tests added for VolumeAttributesClass
- New --show-swap option for kubectl top subcommands
- 5s delay of tainting node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute reduced when a Node becomes unreachable
- kubelet: the --image-credential-provider-config flag can now specify a directory path as well
- Moved Scheduler interfaces to staging
- agnhost: added server address for conntrack cleanup entries
- kube-proxy: Remove iptables cli wait interval flag
- DRA: kubelet added validation before changing claim info cache
- DRA: Improvements to the implementation of counter management in allocator
Promotions
Version Updates
- kube-dns to v1.26.4