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Karmadav1.16.8Orchestration & ManagementJul 31, 2026

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A mixed maintenance and feature release with bug fixes, new APIs and capabilities, performance and instrumentation improvements, dependency updates, and deprecated field removals. Operators should review the removed fields and the updated dependency, while the release also adds multi-component scheduling, configurable initialization, eviction queue support, and new workload interpreters.

Action needed (1)

securitymediumThe github.com/vektra/mockery dependency update
The github.com/vektra/mockery dependency was bumped to v3.5.5 to address security concerns identified by GO-2025-3900.

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breakingThe external etcd fields CAData, CertData, and KeyData, removed
Applies if you configure CAData, CertData, or KeyData.
Deprecated external etcd fields CAData, CertData, and KeyData have been removed.
breakingThe init command's default component images
Applies if you run the init command.
The init command's default kube-apiserver and kube-controller-manager images were updated from v1.31.3 to v1.34.1. The default etcd image was updated from 3.5.16-0 to 3.6.0-0.
breakingA 32s default timeout for the member cluster client
Applies if you use the member cluster client.
A default timeout of 32s was added for the member cluster client to avoid the controller hanging when a member cluster does not respond.
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Plan ahead (2)

deprecatedThe --etcd-init-image flag, deprecatedremoval date not announced
Applies if you use --etcd-init-image.
The --etcd-init-image flag of the init command is deprecated because it is no longer used. The flag will be removed in a future release.
breakingThe Prometheus metric labels cluster and cluster_name, replaced by member_clusterremoval planned in 1.18
Applies if you use the cluster or cluster_name metric labels.
The Prometheus metric labels cluster and cluster_name are deprecated for identifying a Karmada member cluster. The member_cluster label is now used instead and the older labels will be removed in the 1.18 release.

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