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Release Notes

Version 1.37.0 - 2025-09-09

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Features

Add Support for Kubernetes v1.34.0 (#21439)
Add krunkit driver supporting GPU acceleration on macOS (#20826) Tutorial
add short hand -m for --memory (#20854)
Add support to docker runtime for OCI access to NVIDIA GPUs (#20959)
Add --disable-coredns-log flag to suppress coredns logs (#20992)
new addon: kubetail (#20345)
drivers: Add support for Virtiofs mounts for vfkit and krunkit (#21149)

Improvements

Improve ingress-dns addon for ipv4 and windows v0.0.4 (#21449)
iso: Disable grub timeout speeding up vm start by 5 seconds (#20895)
improve docker service reliability, update docker systemd files (#21174)
Don't require both --mount for using --mount-string and remove default mount-string (#21250)
Update oldest supported Kubernetes versions (#21490)
license cmd: don't fail if output dir doesn't exist & download from github assets first (#21206)
remove deprecated proxy-refresh-interval v2 etcd flag (#21278)
vmnet: Support offloading for krunkit (#20831)
Don't call startKicServiceTunnel for non-kic drivers (#20863)
krunkit: Disable offloading for faster networking (#21341)
HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v0.9.1 to v1.0.0 (#20999)(#21228)

Depreciation

Deprecate HyperKit driver with warning (#21024)

Bug fixes

fix dirty commit version (#21062)
Fix minikube image load on windows (#20529) (#20921)
Fix mount to same folder causing Input/output error (#21077)
fix: YAML file escape error problem affecting addons (#20904)
iso: Fix minikube stop with vfkit and krunkit drivers (#21089)
iso: Fix console for vfkit/krunkit (#20832)

Addons

Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.17.2 to v0.17.3 (#21225)
Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.34 to 1.5.41 (#20976)(#21040)(#21243)(#21287)(#21359)(#21512)
Addon Headlamp: Update Headlamp image from v0.28.0 to v0.34.0 (#21238)(#21508)
Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.12.2 to v1.13.2 (#20909)(#21232)(#21353)(#21458)
Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.40.0 to v0.44.1 (#20873)(#21038)(#21240)(#21462)(#21510)(#21358)
Addon kong: Update kong image from 3.9.0 to 3.9.1 (#20966)(#21503)
Addon kong: Update kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller image from 3.4.5 to 3.5.1 (#20908)(#20969)(#21034)(#21282)
Addon kubevirt: Update bitnami/kubectl image from 1.33.1 to 1.33.4 (#20911)(#20939)(#21235)(#21283)(#21414)
Addon metrics-server: Update metrics-server/metrics-server image from v0.7.2 to v0.8.0 (#21033)
Addon registry: Update registry image from 3.0.0 to 3.0.0 (#21242)
Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.11.2 to v1.12.2 (#20868)(#21351)
Addon kubetail: update version 0.13.3 (#21244)

CNI versions

CNI: Update calico from v3.30.0 to v3.30.3 (#20871)(#20971)(#21416)
CNI: Update cilium from v1.17.4 to v1.18.1 (#20968)(#21226)(#21349)
CNI: Update flannel from v0.26.7 to v0.27.0 (#20907)(#21230)(#21504)

Base image versions

iso: Update to longterm kernel to 6.6.95 (#20995)
iso: Enable VirtioFS for x86_64 and aarch64 (#21147)
iso: Improve build and clean up configuration (#20991)
Kicbase/ISO: Update cni-plugins from v1.7.1 to v1.8.0 (#21517)
Kicbase/ISO: Update crun from 1.19 to 1.23.1 (#21198)(#21330)
Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 28.0.4 to 28.4.0 (#21053)(#21248)(#21488)
Kicbase: Bump ubuntu:jammy from 20250415.1 to 20250819 (#21233)(#21413)(#21505)

UI

redo "minikube profile list" to move the verbose details into a --det… (#20544)
improve config flag long description (#21515)
Refactor spinner library & hide sub steps after spinning (#21215)
do not show "create github issue" twice if kubeadm init fails (#21263)
Refactor table rendering (#20893)

UI/Translations

Add Greak Translation
Add more Korean translations (#21467)(#21465)
Add more French translation (#21050)(#20862)(#20945)(#20964)(#21156)(#21372)(#21514)

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

Aaron Nall
Andres Morey
ByoungUk Lee
Chemabj
Cosmic Oppai
Divy Singhvi
gopherorg
Imran Pochi
James World
Jeff MAURY
Joaquim Rocha
Jun Sugimoto
Kartik Joshi
Kaviraj Sankameeswaran
Kay Yan
Kubernetes Prow Robot
Laxman Gupta
Lefteris T.
Medya Ghazizadeh
Nir Soffer
Predrag Rogic
Shin Jihoon
Shin_Jihoon
Steven Powell
Tian
VerlorenerReisender
Victor Ubahakwe

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

medyagh (145 comments)
nirs (102 comments)
afbjorklund (18 comments)
prezha (11 comments)
Copilot (5 comments)
bobsira (4 comments)
cfergeau (2 comments)
gabrielgbs97 (2 comments)
aronahl (1 comments)
ComradeProgrammer (1 comments)
illume (1 comments)
rata (1 comments)
wt (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

afbjorklund (37 comments)
nirs (21 comments)
divysinghvi (10 comments)
LJTian (9 comments)
medyagh (8 comments)

Installation

See Getting Started

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