Kubernetes v1.36.0-rc.0 is live!

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Kubernetes v1.36.0-rc.0 has been built and pushed using Golang version 1.26.0.

The release notes have been updated in CHANGELOG-1.36.md, with a pointer to them on GitHub:

v1.36.0-rc.0

Downloads for v1.36.0-rc.0

Source Code

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes.tar.gz	5b28aae440bdb013eb1497bc357a4b27eb51d275b6da72a9f8aec845169ecbc47ed8c82f091b3b62ede51765e587e652040e39f78da4dd5f560be88f3c3cc52b
kubernetes-src.tar.gz	84e1f0f1e3e57e4b19cb0971d0d980b47cbd2b512e0a0a1477bf88f9d0ff4b786a714e391276fc7b6c4ec119fb8311272b4838644be0bb54c898d31c6640e8b5

Client Binaries

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes-client-darwin-amd64.tar.gz	d7f5c47f327bee440c506a37876538eb232900b1d01c922ca3e3f3ee5a7cf73a35e1c9bcf0c045f9341ee41c04bdac1728f691b470c0ce6302704000347bbad1
kubernetes-client-darwin-arm64.tar.gz	fac20e24b8f9f4fba2c22a6acc193d2fc561542233c7707328a87a1ddbf0d2a476503487c055a21b3661df4cda7e96e271734192c65d1d8badd275cfabbb6ec8
kubernetes-client-linux-386.tar.gz	64edce3331e69b6abb4cb6b0668125c511ee82e2e98978af44e541a3218d09d832f44cec05ea22fc8fd141587b15915153cd92f4664b6da6b2f56891f6b9af3e
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kubernetes-client-linux-arm.tar.gz	eb93e29a907f19f4fabd77f0268c2ebb278a332aa182b9e8e3d56b9fff2a28442dee888689f87ca25b3111ee7dc87d9961d5bd0d1867d812edbeff867380996d
kubernetes-client-linux-arm64.tar.gz	3d184176e56da806368a36b2c8ee33e7f695970498132ed39ddf62d0733440bf1198833441ec05923b1b7d0d50da01896a5253e6be38f950775eb6e82022302f
kubernetes-client-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz	e985ea5dd3a5d61bcb60e209d7e520c6102a0c7117e23c17ad5dc1a34538a5c73cd5e1abe335aba122e3e6abebaa98b4a1d98912f0f9e63efa9f824594ba54db
kubernetes-client-linux-s390x.tar.gz	a44617572f6099efab0133cc2c0b4e9dcfedca6e9d4381036ab2b2a58909250b2062d14f2ef1c06fd814ecf1f6979784f9f5303983865ce490817d8f88abe021
kubernetes-client-windows-386.tar.gz	da1df34ff592947383f02c34df15ad2d68c09eb43de670eb6c59525ce2e35dd24578645e8c114314c19fc3c3f1fe6dc05d141db513b3326a3d76d08b23f92e74
kubernetes-client-windows-amd64.tar.gz	37e27266d6a671c0d5dd2add6e3e441715f627419f4765a055020aa19d303997d5ae05da56b88a3a7de5b2d85be4b5b49ee776ad16349f458a94eabe3d4dca38
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Server Binaries

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz	134342bbe78abb9b02ae3ebe10b9e5de72d2ae9084f33c767d0045c04e740f5c50c40fb9bba00ac2afcb96afcd507b8745c26ec02a40ab0b6a2ca938b9797577
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kubernetes-server-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz	5e9a38e2fd29e23240dd4f82f94504258310c5262b59d2b7dd24ddde6e61282042ac7727fdde7fd7c137ca3a63a7a6b8ae38278a839dc825129dc53069d82ceb
kubernetes-server-linux-s390x.tar.gz	e70e9b0cf26a81c5d8030609f8d3aa91e569353d688fc74f6f63244453651f2f38139af92880b68393cc110c70d25fd0f686e06d55c6873bbb4e0f572dd964c2

Node Binaries

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes-node-linux-amd64.tar.gz	a716ef2572eedde30999ec7ab1a720dc749afa7c4440457b846f868634f1faa6d36b88d80838575cf41bd5eac0b229c2606f32898347bb56342a7ff854dd6852
kubernetes-node-linux-arm64.tar.gz	69ae5167206cc88b125a8f53e618e4f452130a940ea5fbd1e79bf0c6ce82a624a468529cb4ac4d56cc644826fea3bf13a42c99cc43d54fd42acfa98eb04e0897
kubernetes-node-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz	d9f292776a53c2db0d7a518eb6b3844d2eca971528e04ee30ac17340d7748eca9a0aa57edceef15267d254dd8a04fcc2a63485f8fda8610cb90a6c53b88779bd
kubernetes-node-linux-s390x.tar.gz	3f564f9340a52714669e73cff2c5b7a86971bd252ee095e0739e71792d42577d76a4df2fe669f18377cc5ed3a7dc577439af54e4d0033d2d5539978730a85ded
kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz	b00af83413f84e2f585a74aa217af4deadf39b792479cc6e47b9b4e7ae1e2d4975c094d385d405a6a47de602153a7df7be9fa663d4734f3fdb6fb513b76a5c26

Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by adding the "-$ARCH" suffix to the container image name.

name	architectures
registry.k8s.io/conformance:v1.36.0-rc.0	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.36.0-rc.0	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.36.0-rc.0	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.36.0-rc.0	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler:v1.36.0-rc.0	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kubectl:v1.36.0-rc.0	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x

Changelog since v1.36.0-beta.0

Changes by Kind

API Change

Add ResourcePoolStatusRequest API (v1alpha1) for querying DRA resource pool availability. This enables users and external schedulers to discover available devices across pools before submitting workloads. Requires the DRAResourcePoolStatus feature gate (alpha). (#137028, @nmn3m) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation, Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]
Added DisruptionMode, PriorityClassName and Priority fields to Workload and PodGroup APIs to support workload-aware preemption when WorkloadAwarePreemption feature gate is enabled. (#136589, @tosi3k) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Etcd, Node, Scheduling and Testing]
DRA (Dynamic Resource Allocation) drivers and controllers now require granular RBAC permissions to update ResourceClaim statuses when the DRAResourceClaimGranularStatusAuthorization feature gate is enabled (Beta in 1.36). Schedulers and controllers must be granted update/patch on resourceclaims/binding. DRA drivers must be granted associated-node:update or arbitrary-node:update (or patch equivalents) on resourceclaims/driver, restricted by their specific resourceNames. (#134947, @aojea) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Instrumentation, Node, Scheduling and Testing]
DRA: PodGroup resources can now make requests with ResourceClaims through a spec.resourceClaims field which can refer to ResourceClaims and ResourceClaimTemplates. Claims made by a PodGroup are reserved for the entire PodGroup instead of individual Pods, allowing more than 256 Pods to share a single ResourceClaim. ResourceClaimTemplates referenced by a PodGroup's claim will replicate into a ResourceClaim specific to that PodGroup able to be shared by all of the group's Pods. (#136989, @nojnhuh) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Etcd, Node, Scheduling and Testing]
Graduate InPlacePodLevelResourcesVerticalScaling feature to beta and have it on by default. This feature allows resizing the CPU and memory resources at pod-level for pods with pod-level resources set and enabled. (#137684, @ndixita) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Autoscaling, Node, Release, Scheduling and Testing]
Promote NodeLogQuery to GA. (#137544, @jrvaldes) [SIG Node and Windows]
[Alpha] Introduce List Types for Attributes in DRA (KEP-5491).

The DRAListTypeAttributes feature gate(false by default) can activate below enhancements.

For DRA drivers, it can enable list-type fields(bools/ints/strings/versions) for device attributes in ResourceSlice. Please remember that the number of attribute values, including scalars and lists, per single device is limited to 48.

For DRA users, this feature enhances the semantics of matchAttribute/distinctAttribute constraint in ResourceClaim to work on both scalar and list attributes. The matchAttribute constraint now matches when the intersection (as a set) of all the list values among candidate devices is non-empty. The distinctAttribute constraint, which is behind the ConsumableCapacity feature gate, matches when all the list values (as a set) among candidate devices are pairwise disjoint. In both constraints, scalar values are implicitly treated as a singleton set.

And, a new CEL function .includes　is introduced. The function can work on both scalar and list attributes to test inclusion(e.g., device.attributes["dra.example.com"].model.includes("model-a")). This can support smooth migration for CEL expression in DRA resources when a DRA driver changes the attribute value type from scalar to list, or vice versa. (#137190, @everpeace) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

Feature

Adds the UserNamespacesHostNetwork runtime handler and integrates the UserNamespacesHostNetworkSupport feature gate with the NodeDeclaredFeatures feature gate. The UserNamespacesHostNetworkSupport feature gate only takes effect when the container runtime's UserNamespacesHostNetwork runtime handler returns true and the NodeDeclaredFeatures feature gate is enabled. (#135828, @HirazawaUi) [SIG Autoscaling, Node, Scheduling and Testing]
When WorkloadAwarePreemption Feature Gate is enabled, and the Pod Group scheduling fails to find a place for the Pod Group, instead of running default preemption for each pod from the pod group, the workload aware preemption will be run for the whole group. (#137606, @Argh4k) [SIG Apps, Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

Bug or Regression

Fix erroneously reporting a pod-level resize in progress on pod creation when InPlacePodLevelResourcesVerticalScaling is enabled. (#138049, @ndixita) [SIG Node and Testing]
Fixed kubelet to preserve DRA NodeAllocatableResourceClaimStatuses in Pod.Status. (#138030, @askervin) [SIG Node]
Fixes a 1.35 regression in StatefulSet Parallel pod management by disabling the MaxUnavailableStatefulSet feature by default. (#137904, @soltysh) [SIG Apps]
Kep-5304: bump cdi spec for discoverable metadata to 0.5.0 (#138035, @alaypatel07) [SIG Node]
Update the version of the pause image to 3.10.2. Track all pause image version dependencies under the 'registry.k8s.io/pause' item in build/dependencies.yaml. (#138199, @neolit123) [SIG CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Scheduling and Testing]

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

Golang version has been updated to 1.26.2 (#138261, @dims) [SIG Architecture and Testing]

Dependencies

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Contributors, the CHANGELOG-1.36.md has been bootstrapped with v1.36.0-rc.0 release notes and you may edit now as needed.