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 v1.34.11.
Important Note
If your server (control-plane) nodes were not started with the --token CLI flag or config file key, a randomized token was generated during initial cluster startup. This key is used both for joining new nodes to the cluster, and for encrypting cluster bootstrap data within the datastore. Ensure that you retain a copy of this token, as is required when restoring from backup.
You may retrieve the token value from any server already joined to the cluster:
cat /var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/tokenChanges since v1.34.10+rke2r1:
- Chore: bump rke2-canal, rke2-flannel (#11019)
- Bump rke2-metrics-server to 3.13.106 (#11023)
- Fix windows airgap by refactoring rke2-runtime image build+bundle pipeline (#11033)
- Charts: Bump Harvester CSI driver 0.1.31 (#11035)
- Bump HCP 0.2.15 (#11042)
- Bump containerd to v2.2.7-k3s1 (#11063)
- Bump etcd, crictl, runc and containerd (#11077)
- Bump klipper-helm to v0.13.3-build20260820 (#11091)
- Bumps to runtime images, coredns, k8s metrics server, ingress-nginx, and traefik (#11095)
- Update CNIs for 2026-08 Release Cycle (#11099)
- Bump K3s and CCM for 2026-08 release cycle (#11073)
- Update to v1.34.11-rke2r1 and Go 1.26.5 (#11104)
- Fix 'no such image' in Release CI (#11111)
- Ensure correct containerd socket address (#11121)
- Fix
release.ymlsyntax (#11122) - Update image pull command to run per image (#11123)
- Use rke2-traefik-1.34-1.36 (#11126)
- Update Canal chart to v3.32.1-build2026082700 (#11134)
Charts Versions
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| rke2-cilium | 1.19.601 |
| rke2-canal | v3.32.1-build2026082700 |
| rke2-calico | v3.32.100 |
| rke2-calico-crd | v3.32.100 |
| rke2-coredns | 1.47.003 |
| rke2-ingress-nginx | 4.15.109 |
| rke2-metrics-server | 3.14.000 |
| rke2-multus | v4.3.008 |
| rancher-vsphere-csi | 3.7.2-rancher700 |
| rancher-vsphere-cpi | 1.15.300 |
| harvester-cloud-provider | 0.2.1500 |
| harvester-csi-driver | 0.1.3100 |
| rke2-snapshot-controller | 5.2.003 |
| rke2-snapshot-controller-crd | 5.2.003 |
| rke2-traefik | 40.1.010 |
| rke2-traefik-crd | 40.1.010 |
Packaged Component Versions
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | v1.34.11 |
| Etcd | v3.6.14-k3s1 |
| Containerd | v2.2.7-k3s1 |
| Runc | v1.4.3 |
| Metrics-server | v0.9.0 |
| CoreDNS | v1.14.7 |
| Ingress-Nginx | v1.14.5-hardened2 |
| Helm-controller | v0.16.26 |
| Traefik | v3.7.11 |
Available CNIs
| Component | Version | FIPS Compliant |
|---|---|---|
| Canal (Default) | Flannel v0.28.9 Calico v3.32.1 | Yes |
| Calico | v3.32.1 | No |
| Cilium | v1.19.6 | No |
| Multus | v4.3.0 | No |
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