Developer News The videos of the Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU are now available. Arda Guclu has been nominated as a new chair for SIG CLI. A new working group, WG Device Management, has been formed to address the need for improved support for accelerators in Kubernetes. Release Schedule Next Deadline: Release Day, April 17th We’re closing in on the release of Kubernetes v1.30, which is scheduled for next Wednesday. Featured PRs k/website #45496: Add mechanism to retrieve API reference page link based on metadata This PR to the Kubernetes website adds a new partial layout named api-referenc ..read more

Developer News SIG-Release is looking for insights to make the official Kubernetes (container images, binaries/tarballs, and system packages) Artifacts more reliable and secure. Please share your feedback in this survey. SIG Annual Reports are live, please make sure to submit your reports by May 1st. Release Schedule Next Deadline: Release Day, April 17th Kubernetes 1.30.0-rc.0 and 1.30.0-rc.1 are live! KEP of the Week KEP 4381: Structured Parameters for Dynamic Resource Allocation Dynamic Resource Allocation, which was added to Kubernetes as an alpha feature in 1.26 defines an alternative to ..read more

Developer News Kubernetes Contributor Summit happened last week and was attended by more than 220 contributors. As an event the day before KubeCon EU 2024, we had multiple sessions around the Kubernetes project as well as Q&As with the CNCF team and the Kubernetes Steering committee. There also have been four unconference sessions for example, revisiting Kubernetes hardware resource model. A big thanks to the community organizers & volunteers. Pictures can be found here. The CFPs for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Open Source Summit China is open at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kub ..read more

Developer News Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU is happening next Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Make sure to register by March 15. If you want to bring a family member to social send an email to summit-team@kubernetes.io. We’re eagerly looking forward to receiving your contributions to the unconference topics. Also, don’t forget to help your SIG staff its table at the Kubernetes Meet and Greet on Kubecon Friday. Take a peek at the upcoming Kubernetes v1.30 Release in this Blog. Release Schedule Next Deadline: Draft Doc PRs, Mar 12th Kubernetes v1.30.0-beta.0 is live! Your SIG should be working on a ..read more

Developer News All CI jobs must be on K8s community infra as of yesterday. While the infra team will migrate ones that are simple, other jobs that you don’t help them move may be deleted. Update your jobs now. Monitoring dashboards for the GKE and EKS build clusters are live. Also, there was an outage in EKS jobs last week. After a year of work led by Tim Hockin, Go Workspaces support for hacking on Kubernetes is now available, eliminating a lot of GOPATH pain. It’s time to start working on your SIG Annual Reports, which you should find a lot shorter and easier than previous years. Note that y ..read more

Developer News There’s an updated Kubernetes v1.30 State of the Release and Important Deadlines Contributor Summit Paris schedule is live. If you have a new topic, time to suggest an unconference item. Release Schedule Next Deadline: CODE Freeze Begins, March 5th Kubernetes v1.30.0-alpha.3 is live! The Code Freeze milestone for the Kubernetes 1.30 release cycle is approaching rapidly. Have all your necessary changes been submitted? Following this, there’s the usual release countdown: submit documentation PRs by February 26th, publish deprecation blog on Thursday, and conclude testing freeze an ..read more

Developer News Kubernetes Contributor Summit Paris scheduled session speakers have been notified. The Schedule will be available on 25th Feb. Natasha Sarkar is stepping down as SIG-CLI co-chair and Kustomize lead; Marly Puckett is replacing her as co-Chair, and Yugo Kobayashi is taking on Kustomize. Release Schedule Next Deadline: Exception Requests Due, February 26th We are in Enhancements Freeze with 85 Enhancements on the tracking board. Any KEPs that wish to join the v1.30 release must now have an approved Exception. KEP of the Week 4402: go workspaces SIG-Arch is adding go workspace suppo ..read more

Developer News Just thought of a topic for the Contributor Summit but missed the CfP for planned sessions? Add your idea to the Unconference voting issue. Planned session confirmations will be sent out later this month. Prow is moving out of it’s parents basement (i.e. k/test-infra) into its own repo. Reminder: inactive org member cleanup Release Schedule Next Deadline: Enhancements Freeze, February 8th Kubernetes v1.30.0-alpha.1 is live! Enhancements freeze is now just a few days away. This is a final reminder is out! Prepare your KEPs for the Production Readiness Review. If you plan to imple ..read more

Developer News Registration for the Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU 2024 is officially open! You can find the registration link here The call for Contributor Summit Sessions is still open, for your discussions, workshops, or SIG meetings. Members with NO recorded activity (PRs, issues, comments, or any GitHub emitted event) on Devstats across any of the Kubernetes orgs for 12 months or longer will be removed from the Kubernetes GitHub orgs. Check the list of inactive members who are slated to be removed; if you are on it, but are actually still active, comment on the issue Release Schedule Ne ..read more

Developer News The call for Contributor Summit Sessions is still open, for your discussions, workshops, or SIG meetings. The legacy Linux package repositories (apt.kubernetes.io and yum.kubernetes.io AKA packages.cloud.google.com) have been frozen starting from September 13, 2023 and are going away in January 2024. Clusters running versions older than 1.24 and relying on the k8s project Linux package repositories (apt.kubernetes.io and yum.kubernetes.io AKA packages.cloud.google.com) will be affected. See the blog post. WG-LTS upgrade survey is open until the end of January, please fill it out ..read more