1. Rancher released v2.15.0, bringing general availability of native CAPI infrastructure providers, inherited namespace rules for GlobalRoles, restrictions for local UI authentication when EAP is configured, a new high-performance Workloads Overview UI view, and support for Kubernetes v1.36.
2. Karpenter, a Kubernetes node autoscaler developed by the Kubernetes SIG, was updated to v1.14.0, which added the allocator for DRA, extended DRA support for partitionable devices and consumable capacity, a Balanced consolidation policy, per-offering resource overrides, and support for the CapacityBuffer API.
3. Cilium (a CNCF Graduated project) released 1.20.0 with lots of improvements. They include support for TCPRoute and UDPRoute in the Gateway API, encrypting traffic between the gateway and application services, migration to multi-pool IPAM, topology-aware service traffic (
PreferSameZone and PreferSameNode in Kubernetes), stable Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services API support, cluster-scoped policy API from Kubernetes upstream (ClusterNetworkPolicy), per-Service load-balancing mode annotations for VXLAN, and a 4-time smaller cilium-cni binary.4. Cozystack, a PaaS platform and framework for building clouds (a CNCF Sandbox project), released v1.6.0. It migrated tenant Kubernetes workers from Ubuntu and kubeadm to Talos Linux, made tenant resource quotas hierarchical, moved etcd to etcd-operator v1alpha2, introduced a new tenant-facing and namespace-scoped firewall resource (
SecurityGroup), and made several improvements to Keycloak.5. KServe, a distributed generative and predictive AI inference platform (a CNCF Incubating project), released v0.20.0. It introduced numerous new features, including managed DRA for
LLMInferenceService, support for confidential model serving, AutoGluon support, the ability to use multiple OCI sources in storageUris, platform-specific hooks for service customisation, a traffic-splitting API for controlled deployment, and canary rollouts for the RawDeployment mode.6. wasmCloud, a platform for running WebAssembly workloads (a CNCF Incubating project), reached its v2.7.0. It brought concurrent pooled instances, trusted private OCI CA roots with the e2e registry behind TLS,
implements and maps enabled by default, and a unified mechanism for connection limiting.#news #releases