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Karmadav1.17.0Orchestration & ManagementFeb 28, 2026

A feature and maintenance release adds workload affinity and anti-affinity scheduling, operator and API capabilities, and Helm encryption at rest. It also includes controller and scheduler fixes, dependency and image updates, and deprecations and removals.

Check if affected (4)

breakingnamespace validation for spec.resourceSelectors
Applies if you use PropagationPolicy or OverridePolicy.
The namespace validation for spec.resourceSelectors now prevents unintended cross-namespace resource selection in PropagationPolicy and OverridePolicy.
breakingStricter GroupByLabelKey validation in WorkloadAffinity
Applies if you configure GroupByLabelKey in WorkloadAffinity.
WorkloadAffinity now disallows configuring the same GroupByLabelKey for both affinity and antiAffinity.
breakingUpdated default Kubernetes and ETCD images
Applicability is not stated in the release notes.
The default kube-apiserver and kube-controller-manager images move from v1.34.1 to v1.35.2. The default ETCD image moves from 3.6.0-0 to 3.6.6-0.
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Plan ahead (3)

deprecatedThe --cluster-lease-duration flag, deprecatedremoval date not announced
Applies if you use --cluster-lease-duration.
The --cluster-lease-duration flag is deprecated in this release and will be removed in a future release.
deprecatedThe --cluster-lease-renew-interval-fraction flag, deprecatedremoval date not announced
Applies if you use --cluster-lease-renew-interval-fraction.
The --cluster-lease-renew-interval-fraction flag is deprecated in this release and will be removed in a future release.
deprecatedEtcd.Local.InitImage in Karmada Init Configuration, deprecatedremoval date not announced
Applies if you configure Etcd.Local.InitImage in Karmada Init Configuration.
In karmadactl, Etcd.Local.InitImage in Karmada Init Configuration is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

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