This release contains critical dependency updates, bug fixes, and defaults to Kubernetes 1.36.1.

Breaking Changes

The default node image is now kindest/node:v1.37.0@sha256:a1ed56cfb0e7b93589bdf97c8cd566405a265939e3620fc4f5de89adff580ae5.

New Features

• Assorted dependency updates.

Images pre-built for this release:

• v1.37.0: kindest/node:v1.37.0@sha256:a1ed56cfb0e7b93589bdf97c8cd566405a265939e3620fc4f5de89adff580ae5
• v1.36.4: kindest/node:v1.36.4@sha256:099e049362a1526b2db71494e1947aae99bd16290d7c895f2b7ea312e3cbfaed
• v1.35.8: kindest/node:v1.35.8@sha256:07b2536e30b803ed61d1677a79df6115f798ce64c80f9e22f6ed45afd09323c0
• v1.34.11: kindest/node:v1.34.11@sha256:44e222ee2132dab25ff87301682f89eb82c7880ea3a1bf543bfe9708fd08d67d

NOTE: You must use the @sha256 digest to guarantee an image built for this release, until such a time as we switch to a different tagging scheme. Even then we will highly encourage digest pinning for security and reproducibility reasons.

See also:

• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#creating-a-cluster
• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#building-images

NOTE: These node images support amd64 and arm64, both of our supported platforms. You must use the same platform as your host, for more context see #2718

Fixes

• Respect Docker client proxy config for docker nodes. (#4192)
• Preserve external load balancer CDS/LDS configuration across container restarts. (#4195)
• Improve local-path-provisioner helperPod tolerations. (#4210)
• Assorted documentation fixes and improvements.

Contributors

Committers for this release:

• @antoineco
• @BenTheElder
• @christian-heusel
• @erichorwath
• @immanuwell
• @jboero
• @k8s-ci-robot
• @liggitt
• @null
• @popsiclelmlm
• @sestegra
• @stmcginnis
• @tom1299

We'd also like to thank everyone who touched the codebase, filed issues, and helped the community!