1. Istio (a CNCF Graduated project) released 1.27. This version introduced inference extension support when using the Gateway API, multi-cluster deployments in ambient mode (in Alpha), CRL (Certificate Revocation List) support for plugged-in CAs, a new ListenerSets API, and native nftables support in sidecar mode.
2. CloudNativePG, a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL in Kubernetes (a CNCF Sandbox project), was updated to v1.27.0. This release enabled loading PostgreSQL extensions dynamically, logical decoding slot synchronisation in HA clusters, primary isolation checks in the liveness probe, quorum-based failover (experimental), and
Postgres interface support in the CNPG-I (plugin interface) operator.3. Crossplane (a CNCF Incubating project) reached its v2.0 milestone, featuring significant improvements. First of all, the project went beyond infrastructure and now lets you manage applications as well. Other changes include composite and managed resources (XRs and MRs) being namespaced by default, support for any Kubernetes resources in compositions, and a new Operation type for one-off, scheduled, and event-driven workflows.
4. Nelm, a Helm 3 alternative (part of werf, a CNCF Sandbox project), has released several versions recently, the latest one being v1.12. They brought numerous improvements, such as force adoption of the resources in the cluster, Helm charts debugging, better log control (hiding logs matching a regexp, disabling Pod log collection, log colouring in popular CI systems), masking sensitive parts of diffs, and status tracking for more popular custom resources.
5. OpenCost, a Kubernetes cost monitoring tool (a CNCF Incubating project), released v1.116.0. It added Promless configuration, diagnostics summary filter, NodeLabel filtering support to allocations, log-level information to heartbeat data, diagnostics data for the collector source in export bucket, and more new features.
6. copa, a CLI tool to directly patch container images without full rebuilds (a CNCF Sandbox project), released v0.11.0 last month (and updated to v0.11.1 last week), introducing multi-platform patching, support for the
buildkit instance running on Podman and for OCI Media Types (in addition to Docker).#news #releases