v2.25.0 Release - 09/16/2026

Linux amd64
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.25.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Linux arm64
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.25.0/skaffold-linux-arm64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS amd64
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.25.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS arm64
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.25.0/skaffold-darwin-arm64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v2.25.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v2.25.0

Highlights:

New Features and Additions:

Fixes:

Updates and Refactors:

• chore: correct go.mod version to 1.27.1 and update dependencies #10186
• chore: upgrade Go version to 1.27.1 and update dependencies #10183
• chore: bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.33 to 1.7.35 #10178
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.1 to 1.83.2 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/cloud-spanner-bootstrap #10177
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.1 to 1.83.1 #10173
• docs: Adds announcement to V2 docs and YAML reference landing pages regardi… #10180
• chore: upgrade Go version to 1.27.0 and update dependencies #10167
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.3 to 1.82.1 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/cloud-spanner-bootstrap #10146
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.56.3 to 1.82.1 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/service #10145
• chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.81.1 to 1.82.1 #10148
• chore: bump github.com/moby/go-archive from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0 #10157
• chore: bump github.com/moby/buildkit from 0.30.0 to 0.31.1 #10158
• chore: bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.19.1 to 5.19.2 #10154

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

Huge thanks goes out to all of our contributors for this release:

• Abrahami2
• Dave Dorbin
• dependabot[bot]
• ruhi-chaddha