Kubernetes
v1.34.4Kubernetes CoreFeb 10, 2026
Kubernetes v1.34.4 is a maintenance release focused on correctness fixes and regression repairs across core components, with a Go toolchain update and a change to kubeadm retry behavior. No security advisories or security-specific fixes are disclosed.
All 13 other recorded changesfixes 11 · value changes 2
fixes (11)
- DRA: when scheduling many pods very rapidly, sometimes the same device was allocated twice for different ResourceClaims due races between data processing in different goroutines.
- Fixed SELinux warning controller not to emit events for completed pods.
- Fixed an issue in the Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) where IPv4 and IPv6 Service load balancers could be incorrectly shared, causing broken dual-stack Service behavior.
- Fixed kubelet logging to properly respect verbosity levels.
- Fixes a 1.29 regression in the apiserver_watch_events_sizes metric to report total outgoing watch traffic again
- Fixes a 1.34+ regression in ipvs and winkernel kube-proxy backends; these are now reverted back to their pre-1.34 behavior of regularly rechecking all of their rules even when no Services or EndpointSlices change.
- Kubeadm: waiting for etcd learner member to be started before promoting during 'kubeadm join'
- Fixes a 1.34 regression starting pods with environment variables with a value containing
$followed by a multi-byte character - Kube-apiserver: fix a possible panic validating a custom resource whose CustomResourceDefinition indicates a status subresource exists
- Kubeadm: when applying the overrides provided by the user using "extraArgs", do not sort the resulted list of arguments alpha-numerically.
- Kubelet(dra): correctly handles multiple ResourceClaims even if one is already prepared
value changes (2)
- Kubeadm: when patching a Node object do not exit early on unknown (non-allowlisted) API errors. Instead, always retry within the duration of the polling for getting and patching a Node object.
- Kubernetes is now built using Go 1.24.12
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