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2026 (7)

May (1)

aks: Release 2026-04-28

Release notes from AKS

2026-05-04

AKS 2026-04-28 adds new patch releases for Kubernetes 1.33–1.35, introduces several preview features, and updates multiple platform components and node images. It also highlights a security mitigation for CVE-2026-31431, deprecates Kubernetes 1.29 LTS, and starts moving Automatic clusters toward Gateway API-based ingress.

April (1)

k8s: Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-04-21

Gateway API v1.5 promotes six features to the Standard channel and updates the release process to a release train model with feature freeze dates. It also includes a v1 bump for ReferenceGrant, plus notes on migration and compatibility for existing Experimental TLSRoute resources.

March (3)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Application routing with meshless Istio in AKS

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure AKS preview introduces Application Routing with meshless Istio as a supported ingress migration path after ingress-nginx deprecation, without requiring a full service mesh. It is positioned around Kubernetes Gateway API support and Istio-based routing.

k8s: Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Ingress2Gateway 1.0 is a stable migration assistant for moving from Ingress to Gateway API, with expanded Ingress-NGINX annotation support and more detailed warnings for unsupported or lossy translations. The release emphasizes controller-level integration tests and safer migration workflows, including manual review, validation in a dev cluster, and gradual traffic shifting.

k8s: Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-09

Kubernetes has formed a new AI Gateway Working Group to define standards and best practices for Gateway API-based networking infrastructure tailored to AI workloads.

February (2)

k8s: Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-02-27

Kubernetes will retire the community Ingress-NGINX controller in March 2026; this post lists five non-obvious routing/rewriting/redirect behaviors that can cause outages when translating to Gateway API unless explicitly replicated.

aks: Release 2026-02-08

Release notes from AKS

2026-02-17

AKS release 2026-02-08 adds new Kubernetes patch versions, expands regional availability for API Server VNET Integration, and introduces several security/behavioral changes plus multiple component/image updates.