This release updates Kubernetes to v1.36.6, and fixes a number of issues.
For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.
Changes since v1.36.5+k3s1:
- Run snapshotrestore test entries in parallel (#14734)
- Deps: bump containerd to v2.3.6 (#14742)
- Bump Traefik image and gateway-api (#14750)
- Bump gateway-api to 1.6.3 (#14771)
- Bump K3s-root version to v0.15.3 (#14779)
- Bump flannel to v0.28.10 (#14798)
- Bump containerd to v2.3.7 (#14806)
- Update kube-roter to v2.11.1 (#14763)
- Remove unused replace directives (#14822)
- Bump Klipper Helm and Helm Controller version (#14816)
- Backports for 2026-10 (#14826)
- Prevent systemd restart loop when no default route is present by waiting 60 seconds for default route to appear #14527
- Exclude kms-providers from apiserver readiness check #14635
- Clarify etcd local vs S3 snapshot retention flag help #14716
- Update ServiceLB status when node addresses change #14550
- Omit default SA key flags when service-account-signing-endpoint is set #14719
- Fix local-path PV deletion with SELinux enforcing #14740
- Feature/14562 etcd snapshot restrictions #14678
- Report image list read errors when pre-pulling images #14732
- Migrate CI from docker to GHCR #14603
- Fix etcd member removal when etcd is disabled on an existing server #14801
- Docker tests: add gateway-api test #14802
- Fix goroutine leak in the proxy #14811
- Make etcdsnapshot restrictions integration test respect the test lock #14820
- Bump rancher/mirrored-library-traefik image version (#14834)
- Bump Klipper Helm and Helm Controller version (#14876)
- Pin runners to ubuntu-24.04 (#14919)
- Bump k3s-io/kubernetes and Go references (#14926)
- Bump x/net and pass
golang.org/x/replacements through when building bundled binaries (#14936)
Embedded Component Versions
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | v1.36.6 |
| Kine | v0.16.5 |
| SQLite | 3.53.4 |
| Etcd | v3.6.14-k3s3 |
| Containerd | v2.3.7-k3s1.36 |
| Runc | v1.4.2 |
| Flannel | v0.28.10 |
| Metrics-server | v0.9.0 |
| Traefik | v3.7.15 |
| CoreDNS | v1.14.7 |
| Helm-controller | v0.17.9 |
| Local-path-provisioner | v0.0.37 |
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