This release updates Kubernetes to v1.33.6, and fixes a number of issues.
For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.
Changes since v1.33.5+k3s1:
- Bump traefik to 3.5.1 (#12958)
- Fix garbled CLI (#13033)
- Update flannel, kube-router and cni plugins (#13041)
- Backports for 2025-10 (#13058)
- Fix netpol fatal error when changing node IP
- Bump dynamiclistener for stacked update fix
- Bump Klipper Helm and Helm Controller version
- Bump Local Path Provisioner version
- Fix IPv6 handling for loadbalancer addresses
- Fix multiple issues with server shutdown sequencing
- Fix etcd member promotion
- Bump spegel to v0.4.0
- Fix kine metrics registration without --kine-tls
- Bump kine to v0.14.2
- Fix: default forward after override imports
- Fix handling of vendored dependencies in version script
- Fix helm controller apiserver address for bootstrap charts on ipv6-only nodes
- Create dynamic-cert-regenerate file in CA cert rotation handler
- Fix ability to rotate server token to an invalid format
- Drop calls to rand.Seed
- Bump kine for postgres object count fix
- Bump kine=v0.14.5
- Bump coredns to 1.13.1
- Update dispatch script (#13077)
- Bump helm-controller/klipper-helm (#13092)
- Backports for 2025-11 (#13126)
- Inclusive naming proposal (#13133)
- Migrate release pipeline into GitHub Actions (#13116)
- Bump runc to v1.3.3 (#13145)
- Add Prime assets upload (#13158)
- More backports for 2025-11 (#13178)
- Bump klipper-helm and helm-controller (#13194)
- Update to v1.33.6-k3s1 and Go 1.24.9 (#13200)
- Add id-token (#13207)
Embedded Component Versions
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | v1.33.6 |
| Kine | v0.14.6 |
| SQLite | 3.50.4 |
| Etcd | v3.5.21-k3s1 |
| Containerd | v2.1.5-k3s1.33 |
| Runc | v1.3.3 |
| Flannel | v0.27.4 |
| Metrics-server | v0.8.0 |
| Traefik | v3.5.1 |
| CoreDNS | v1.13.1 |
| Helm-controller | v0.16.16 |
| Local-path-provisioner | v0.0.32 |
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