1. Argo CD (a CNCF Graduated project) released its v3.5 RC, introducing several important features. They include a new ApplicationSet UI with built-in change previews, Impersonation workflows and Source Hydrator promoted to Beta, Helm 4 support, and mTLS support for repo-server. Currently, v3.5.0-rc1 and v3.5.0-rc2 are available, with the GA release scheduled for August.
2. Headlamp, a Kubernetes web UI developed by the Kubernetes SIG, released 0.43.0. It came with ClusterProfile discovery (alpha), a node upgrade visualisation panel, proxy auth support for middleware proxies, a Create Deployment form in the UI, a dedicated Job details view, RTL layout support, and several new localisations.
3. Podman, a tool for managing OCI containers and pods (a CNCF Sandbox project), reached v6.0.0. It significantly upgraded the network infrastructure (iptables → nftables; CNI networking → Netavark; slirp4netns → Pasta; experimental Pesto rootless port forwarding), improved VM experience in Podman Machine with easier operations across different providers and a new
podman machine os update command, enhanced quadlet capabilities and the way configuration files are handled.4. CloudNativePG, a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL in Kubernetes (a CNCF Sandbox project), released 1.30.0, featuring the DatabaseRole CRD for declarative role management as its main highlight. This release also added a Kubernetes Lease object for safe primary election, in-place major upgrades with Image Volume extensions, PgBouncer image management via Image Catalogs, SCRAM-SHA-256 password encoding, and several other improvements.
5. Dragonfly, which implements secure data distribution and acceleration powered by P2P (a CNCF Graduated project), announced v2.5.0. It introduced direct repository downloads from Hugging Face and ModelScope, a Kubernetes mutating admission webhook for automatic P2P capability injection in Dragonfly, a blocklist to disable specific downloads, comprehensive rate limiting, a new command-line tool (
dfctl) to manage tasks in the client’s local storage, and many other updates.6. Flux (a CNCF Graduated project) released 2.9 with a new CLI plugin system and the first two plugins (Mirror and Schema). It also included Server-Side Apply field ignore rules for fine-grained drift control, enhanced secrets decryption, support for Helm post-render strategies, CEL-based health check expressions, and many other new features. The latest release of Flux Operator added a dedicated workload dashboard and a full-featured Pod log viewer to the Flux Web UI.
7. cert-manager (a CNCF Graduated project) released v1.21.0 with experimental ACME Renewal Information (ARI) support, AWS IAM authentication for Vault, certificate renewal policies, support for Modern2026 PKCS#12 profile, Venafi OAuth token observability,
runtimeClassName support, and various Gateway API and cainjector improvements.#news #releases