Happy to present our newest digest of the prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!

1. OpenEBS, a persistent storage for Kubernetes workloads (a CNCF Sandbox project), released its v4.3.0 with numerous enhancements. They include data-at-rest encryption and IPv6 support in the replicated storage (Mayastor), a new unified plugin for interacting with all supported engines, and a backup garbage collector for LocalPV ZFS.

2. werf, a CLI tool for software delivery to Kubernetes (a CNCF Sandbox project), has recently released v2.38.0 and v2.39.0, bringing several new features. Now, it allows to have external configuration includes (to simplify reusing common templates), use template debugging mode for Helm charts, and keep specific tags while performing automatic cleanup of container images.

3. Argo CD (a CNCF Graduated project) announced v3.1, its next significant update, which is currently available as v3.1.0-rc1 only. This version introduces support for using OCI-compliant container registries as sources for configuration artifacts, support for CLI plugins, scaling resources directly from the UI, and client-side apply migration.

4. OpenTofu, a community-driven Terraform fork (a CNCF Sandbox project), reached v1.10.0 that introduced OCI registry support, native S3 state locking, enhanced planning, global provider cache lock, OpenTelemetry tracing, external key providers, official VS Code extension, Language Server Protocol support, and OpenTofu Registry MCP server.

5. Headlamp, a Web UI for Kubernetes, released 0.31.0 and 0.32.0, featuring tons of improvements. Particularly, the project got a multi-cluster view (experimental), a few new themes and support for plugin-defined themes, support for Node shell, Pod eviction and force deletion, new advanced search, and several new localisations.

6. OpenBao, a community-driven Vault fork, was updated to v2.3 with significant enhancements. Most notably, it now supports tenant isolation using namespaces (it’s available in UI as well), automatic unsealing using the KMIP protocol, and CEL (Common Expression Language) in PKI.

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