1. MetalLB, a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters (a CNCF Sandbox project), released its v0.14.9 at the end of December. It added support for dual-stack IP assignment (via
prefer-dual-stack in IPFamilyPolicy), the DynamicASN field to detect the AS number for BGPPeers, and updated Prometheus rules.2. Argo CD (a CNCF Graduated project) got the release candidates for its v2.14 (rc5 was out last week) with numerous new features. They include global sync timeout for applications, accidental resource deletion protection with new sync options, abilities to disable SSA (server-side apply) on individual resources and disable writing Kubernetes events, configurable batches for massive application refreshes, and upgrading to Helm 3.16.
3. Dragonfly, a P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system (a CNCF Incubating project; not to be confused with the namesake database), was updated to v2.2.0 and brought many significant changes. Its client was rewritten in Rust and got support for leeching and bandwidth rate limiting for prefetching; the P2P transfer protocol was updated to V2; Web Console got a redesigned UI; Harbor integration was improved; gRPC calls between services are now using mTLS.
4. WasmCloud, a CNCF Incubating project for building, managing, and scaling apps across clouds, Kubernetes, or edge, released v1.5.0. It came with built-in NATS and HTTP server providers, health checks and boolean flags to gate experimental features in the host, enabled HTTP keepalives by default, added support for expanded wkg configuration and other improvements for wash-cli.
5. Inspektor Gadget, a set of tools and framework for inspecting Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF (a CNCF Sandbox project), has seen its v0.36.0, featuring support for the OpenTelemetry logs via OTLP protocol and uniform filtering capabilities in the gadgets.
6. kubespray v2.27.0 was released switching to CRI-O (instead of runc) as the default container runtime and Kubernetes v1.31.4 as the default K8s version. It also added support for kubeadm v1beta4, numerous Cilium features (Host Firewall and PolicyAuditMode, disabling Hubble UI, partial support for Cilium v1.16+), ntpsec, network isolation configuration in Multus, an ability to skip network configuration, support for Fedora 39 and 40, and more.
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