Warning
This release upgrades Traefik chart to v40.x which includes a breaking change for the ingress-nginx migration: the provider name changes from kubernetesIngressNginx to kubernetesIngressNGINX. Check https://github.com/traefik/traefik-helm-chart/releases/tag/v40.0.0 for more details
This release updates Kubernetes to v1.36.4, and fixes a number of issues.
For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.
Changes since v1.36.3+k3s1:
- Backport tests changes (#14517)
- Bump rancher/mirrored-coredns-coredns image version (#14534)
- Bump Local Path Provisioner version (#14498)
- Bump containerd to v2.3.4-k3s1.36 (#14512)
- Backports for 2026-08 (#14522)
- Update to v1.36.4-k3s1 and Go 1.26.7 (#14545)
Embedded Component Versions
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | v1.36.4 |
| Kine | v0.16.4 |
| SQLite | 3.53.4 |
| Etcd | v3.6.14-k3s1 |
| Containerd | v2.3.4-k3s1.36 |
| Runc | v1.4.2 |
| Flannel | v0.28.4 |
| Metrics-server | v0.9.0 |
| Traefik | v3.7.8 |
| CoreDNS | v1.14.6 |
| Helm-controller | v0.17.7 |
| Local-path-provisioner | v0.0.37 |
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