1. Longhorn, a Cloud Native distributed storage for Kubernetes (a CNCF Incubating project), released v1.11.0, which brought its V2 Data Engine to the Technical Preview. Other updates include balance-aware algorithm disk selection for replica scheduling, active monitoring for node disk health, and support for Kubernetes RWOP (
ReadWriteOncePod) and StorageClass allowedTopologies.2. Argo CD (a CNCF Graduated project) reached v3.3.0. It introduced PreDelete hooks, automatic background refresh of OIDC tokens, support for resource names in
clusterResourceWhitelist, shallow cloning for repositories, and KEDA support (pausing and resuming KEDA resources from the Argo CD UI and ScaledJob health checks).3. Headlamp, a Kubernetes web UI developed by the Kubernetes SIG, was updated to 0.40.0 and got configurable keyboard shortcuts, HTTPRoute support for Gateway API, icon and colour configuration for clusters, saving selected namespaces per cluster, support for
a8r.io service metadata in service views, and more.4. Cilium (a CNCF Graduated project) released 1.19.0 with lots of new features. They include multi-level subdomain matches in DNS policies, support for VRRP and IGMP protocols in host firewall rules, strict encryption modes for both IPsec and WireGuard, enrolling namespaces into Ztunnel, support for GRPCRoute in GAMMA, TLS/mTLS support for Prometheus metrics, and CRD auto-installation for Multi-Cluster Services.
5. KEDA (a CNCF Graduated project) was updated to v2.19.0, introducing a new Kubernetes Resource Scaler, file-based authentication support for
ClusterTriggerAuthentication, and other improvements.6. Karpenter, a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler developed by the Kubernetes SIG, unveiled its v1.9.0, adding
Gte and Lte operators for requirements, a NodePool cost metric, and consolidation pipeline logging.7. Istio (a CNCF Graduated project) 1.29.0 was released with DNS capture and iptables reconciliation enabled by default for ambient workloads, CRL (Certificate Revocation List) support in Ztunnel, debug endpoint authorisation enabled by default, alpha support for wildcard hosts in
ServiceEntry resources with DYNAMIC_DNS resolution, HTTP compression for Envoy metrics, pilot resource filtering capabilities, and many other changes.#news #releases