k8s: The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter
Kubernetes Official Blog
2026-03-17
Kubernetes rewrote the core of its image promoter (kpromo/promo-tools), removing legacy code and splitting promotion into distinct phases. The new pipeline improved performance and reliability, shipped in v4.2.0–v4.4.0, and kept user-facing flags and manifests unchanged.