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Release Spotlight: Kubeflow 1.10

Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes (a CNCF Incubating project), has received many significant changes with its 1.10 release. Training Operator now supports JAX for distributed training, and Katib introduced a new high-level API for hyperparameter tuning. Spark Operator became a core Kubeflow component, with its 2.1.0 included in the platform.

The project got a new user-friendly web UI for Model Registry to manage ML models. The Model Registry was also better integrated with KServe via Custom Storage Initializer (CSI), and KServe got a new Python SDK. Finally, lots of security-related updates arrived, such as leveraging rootless containers in Kubeflow manifests and replacing OIDC-authservice with oauth2-proxy.

Other noticeable updates in the Cloud Native space:

1. KubeVirt, a virtual machine management solution for Kubernetes (a CNCF Incubating project), released its v1.5 a month ago. It brought several features to GA, including migration update strategy and volume migration, auto resource limits for VMIs, VM live updates for hotplugging of CPU/memory/volume resources, and a network binding plugin. It also introduced migrations for hotplugged volumes and dynamic control for the network interface’s link state.

2. Headlamp, a Kubernetes web UI (now part of Kubernetes SIG UI), released 0.30.0. It features two new locales (Traditional Chinese and Italian), an ability to show Custom Resources details in the overlay panel, and a few other improvements.

3. Fluent Bit, a lightweight telemetry agent developed under the umbrella of Fluentd (a CNCF Graduated project), has reached v4.0.0. It comes with conditional processing for logs (i.e. modifying logs based on specific field values), a new trace sampling processor with a pluggable architecture, security enhancements, and experimental support for plugins written in Zig.

4. Thanos, highly available Prometheus with long-term storage (a CNCF Incubating project), released v0.38.0, which added OTLP receiver, native histogram downsampling, caching for regex matchers in series calls, support for chain deduplication algorithm and query offset, and more.

5. Flagger, a progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (part of Flux, a CNCF Graduated project), released 1.41.0, introducing Knative support, support for primary backend cookies in session affinity (Gateway API), and added headers to the Prometheus requests.

6. kgateway, a Cloud Native API Gateway and AI Gateway (a recently accepted CNCF Sandbox project), unveiled the second major release, v2.0.0. It came with custom resources extending Gateway API, better traffic management and security capabilities, open-sourced AI Gateway, and Istio Ambient Waypoint integration.

7. KEDA, a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling (a CNCF Graduated project), was updated to v2.17.0, featuring two new scalers (NSQ and Temporal) and a few deprecations.

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