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2026 (6)

September (4)

k8s: Kubernetes v1.37: Hardening Container Storage with Bind Mount Options and EmptyDir Permissions

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-09-16

Kubernetes v1.37 adds alpha support for bind mount options on volume mounts and configurable permission modes for emptyDir volumes. These features let users apply Linux mount flags like noexec, nosuid, and nodev, and set emptyDir modes such as 01777 or 0750 without init-container workarounds.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.37: Scheduler Preemption for In-Place Pod Resize (Alpha)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-09-10

Kubernetes v1.37 adds alpha support for scheduler preemption during in-place Pod resize, gated by InPlacePodVerticalScalingSchedulerPreemption. If a running Pod’s resize is Deferred due to lack of node capacity, the scheduler can now preempt lower-priority Pods on the same node so the resize can complete without restarting the Pod.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-09-09

Kubernetes v1.37 reserves five well-known Node lifecycle condition types and adds an alpha feature gate for future built-in behavior, but the gate is disabled by default and no core components act on the conditions yet. The release is meant to provide a shared, Kubernetes-owned signal for drains, maintenance, and graceful shutdown so operators and external controllers can report Node lifecycle state consistently.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.37: DRA Updates

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-09-03

Kubernetes 1.37 adds several DRA updates, including GA support for extended resources, stable device taints/tolerations, and stable standardized NUMA node attributes. It also promotes multiple DRA features to Beta or Alpha, with focus areas including workload-level ResourceClaims, device metadata/status, scheduling performance, and fractional consumable capacity.

August (1)

k8s: Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-08-26

Kubernetes v1.37 ships 67 enhancements: 16 Stable, 23 Beta, 27 Alpha, and 1 deprecation/removal. Key changes include resilient watchcache initialization, HPA scale-to-zero, manifest-based admission config, Pod checkpoint/restore, broader Dynamic Resource Allocation support, and multiple scheduler, storage, node, and observability updates.

July (1)

k8s: Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-07-31

Kubernetes v1.37 is planning several deprecations and a few feature graduations. Notable changes include deprecating kubectl run -f, forbidding Static Pods from referencing Secrets/ConfigMaps, starting deprecation of kube-proxy ipvs mode, and moving SELinuxMount to GA with possible workload impact.