1. Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine (a CNCF Graduated project), released 1.18, which added secure HTTP calls with blocklist/allowlist, namespaced image registry credentials, extended policy support in
kyverno apply and kyverno test, success event filtering, and many other improvements.2. NATS, the cloud- and edge-native messaging system (a CNCF Incubating project), released its server v2.14, which added feature flags in the server configuration. It also introduced fast-ingest batch publishing, repeating and cron-based message schedules, scheduled subject sampling and scheduled subject rollups, and an asynchronous stream state snapshots for replicated streams.
3. Freelens, an IDE for Kubernetes originated as a community-driven fork of Lens, was updated to v1.9.0. It is now capable to resize the Pods by patching their resources, wrap logs for better readability, work with OpenShift Prometheus provider, use HTTP POST requests for Prometheus, and exit remote shells gracefully.
4. OpenYurt, a platform extending Kubernetes for edge use cases (a CNCF Incubating project), released v1.7.0, which added image preheating for OTA (Over-The-Air) upgrades, local K8s-on-K8s deployments with a Kubernetes cluster on top of an existing OpenYurt cluster, label-driven YurtHub deployment, and Kubernetes v1.34 support.
5. Traefik, a HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer for Cloud Native apps, released v3.7.0, featuring the support for dozens of new annotations for Kubernetes Ingress-Nginx: limits for connections/RPM/RPS, proxy timeouts, buffering, redirects, canary, session-cookie-expires, custom headers and HTTP errors, enable-access-log, allowlist-source-range, global-auth and auth-signin, and many more. Other new features include stdio access logs, priority ordering for providers routing, support for adding middlewares on services, and a new
encodedCharacters middleware.6. Istio (a CNCF Graduated project) announced 1.30, introducing experimental support for agentgateway as a Gateway API implementation, support for
TLSRoute termination and mixed mode, several improvements for the ambient mode, namespace-level traffic distribution annotation, DNS upstream timeout, DNS failover priority support, configurable port overrides for the network gateway service, and many other updates.7. Crossplane (a CNCF Graduated project) made another quarterly release, v2.3.0, adding the actual composite reconciler to
crossplane render, provider deletion protection, per-resource reconciliation control, an “all resources of that kind” selector for composition functions, and a new scale subresource for XRs.#news #releases