A maintenance release with dependency updates and correctness fixes across scheduling, kubelet behavior, server-side apply, and kubeadm. It also includes a Go 1.26.5 build update, with no disclosed security advisories.
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A maintenance release with fixes to kubeadm join and etcd learner promotion, reduced kubelet logging for missing optional annotations, and restored Cri-api JSON encoding compatibility. It also updates the build toolchain to Go 1.25.12.
Source ↗A maintenance release with kubeadm and kubelet behavior corrections, a changed kubeadm timeout default, and a deferred Kubelet deprecation removal. It also includes a toolchain dependency update and no identified security advisories.
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deprecated
Kubeletconfigurations flagsdeprecation removal timelineremoval planned in 1.38Applies if you configure
Kubelet'sconfigurations flags.This release defers removal of the
Kubeletconfigurations flagsdeprecation and related fallback behavior from 1.37 to 1.38 to align withcontainerd v1.support.7