# CRI-O v1.36.4

> Kubernetes Core · 2026-08-24

A small maintenance release adds per-container targeting for CPU load balancing, IRQ load balancing, and CPU quota annotations. It also fixes a CRI-O crash during pod sandbox statistics collection when a container cgroup is cleaned up during teardown.

## Other recorded changes
- 2 (defect_corrected 1, constraint_changed 1)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/cri-o/v1.36.4)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/releases/tag/v1.36.4)