🚀 Kubebuilder v4.8.0 Released — Featuring AI-assisted AutoUpdate Plugin

[Camila Macedo]

Hey everybody,

📣 Kubebuilder v4.8.0 has been released! 🎉

🌟 Key Highlights

🚀 (New — AI-assisted AutoUpdate Plugin)

With the new AutoUpdate Plugin, powered by the kubebuilder alpha update command, you can set up a GitHub Actions workflow to automatically open Issues with a link to instantly create a Pull Request to update your project.

 

Each issue includes AI-generated suggestions and a summary of the changes, helping you keep your project scaffold secure, modern, and aligned with ecosystem changes whenever a new release is available. 

 

👉 Learn more: https://book.kubebuilder.io/plugins/available/autoupdate-v1-alpha

⚙️ Alpha Update Command Enhancements

This release delivers major improvements to the kubebuilder alpha update command:

• New flags such as --squash, --restore-path, and --output-branch to simplify and control upgrades.
• --open-gh-issue and --use-gh-models enable AI-assisted summaries and GitHub issue creation for upgrade tracking.
• Smarter, safer project scaffolding updates through a 3-way merge strategy.

👉 Learn more: https://book.kubebuilder.io/reference/commands/alpha_update

🛠️ Others

• Upgrades: cert-manager v1.18.2, Golang-CI v2.3.0, Go 1.24.5
• Reliability fixes for certificates, plugin workflows, and E2E utilities

📖 Full release notes: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/tag/v4.8.0

🎉 Thanks to all our contributors! 🎉

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CAMILA MACEDO

SOFTWARE ENGINEER,

BLOG: www.dev4devs.com