Kubeflow
26.03.1AI & MLJun 15, 2026
Kubeflow 26.03.1 is a large calendar-versioned release carrying operator-visible breaking changes alongside broad component upgrades. The kubeflow/model-registry package is renamed to kubeflow/hub, model registry deployment moves from the default namespace to user profile namespaces, and model catalog becomes a cluster-wide singleton in the kubeflow namespace; the release notes explicitly caution about dashboard v2 changes as well.
Key changes (7)
- kubeflow/model-registry repository renamed to kubeflow/hub; all references and manifests must be updated accordingly
- Model registry now deploys to the user profile namespace instead of the default namespace, requiring operator adjustments to RBAC and any tooling that assumed the default namespace
- Model catalog split out as a cluster-wide singleton in the kubeflow namespace, replacing per-namespace instances
- model-registry with UI is now enabled by default, which may affect installations that previously left it disabled
- Kubeflow Pipelines 2.16.1, Kserve v0.18.0, Trainer v2.2.0, Notebooks v1.11.0, and Dashboard toward v2.0.0 all updated in this release
- Istio 1.30.1 (with hostUsers: false support), Knative 1.22.0, Dex 2.45.1 (now 2 replicas, no sticky service), cert-manager 1.20.2, and oauth2-proxy v7.15.2 bumped
- CI moved to Kind 0.32+ and Kubernetes 1.36; Trivy scanning temporarily removed, planned to return in a later release