Kubernetes v1.36.1 is live!

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Kubernetes v1.36.1 has been built and pushed using Golang version 1.26.2.

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

v1.36.1

Downloads for v1.36.1

Source Code

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes.tar.gz	f48211b142241d7c8e7a44f1883bb5b233592178ddb92964a6453318b27d4405c6b3843f0b0ae7c64d7a7fb244ca01391f355c858ec1b04bb545157245fba0f2
kubernetes-src.tar.gz	5f2c24638d56895bb3575aff0e25641fd9c25c192e27c6cd5255b888efc041221975cff9df99c1c842b876d3092cb9eaec0fd5b410bd0ec9ea74f3bc437dfaff

Client Binaries

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes-client-darwin-amd64.tar.gz	18daddc3d49ebb60d4c8b80748ef656dc5c19b3be8257a49c9b2ba1035710e38f96059ab140db833d41ebaf117ffee7b4c4a07447a2925cd199cb31d0eada21b
kubernetes-client-darwin-arm64.tar.gz	2338e4e7a36e6bdbfbb2956d5210cf1a79c0e688cb687c60ccd3796b187a438ace7948a23ae292e4b698c25fb6340ab9b2933288188ca1af379f879334c6c882
kubernetes-client-linux-386.tar.gz	e6a6b3d9640e0dca69dc745205225945e010cf8ae455eb0fa552433f3dd52ce89444fd9831fb63c8cf5b764ffb564a1c34363eca07c5a7676ee48e859e9517c5
kubernetes-client-linux-amd64.tar.gz	0e3293367ed63e7f0792a32d3f8b96c586fc7920a6e078da99065dd425cf8123d62383680809157417fc183c566323a3e2d81098340d07d87ccd90750acc64c5
kubernetes-client-linux-arm.tar.gz	10ee2bebeaf467ba5c28890468341655118422096238b1e41ffd9e850e11cc8d7fde8a3121ae0e7610fd213aab660f44d92a8041e4ba9ffd10cb5dd93593bb91
kubernetes-client-linux-arm64.tar.gz	b5391a5de550ad7ef0e53e0a955414a3bd6ad9c18a7063dcf36bdc80cae193119a2d0da1cca0d49dd83af271c71633d98e63894223fd691d70d239e01d85286f
kubernetes-client-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz	b2deb8c1fb8c62b8177c5539c79f7799e1e538d48eae60384d58223e8ceef20ddc86dd298be82c65cb4b542fe6c9361d55a77a084ae58bbcd071fc0c7d6eeac2
kubernetes-client-linux-s390x.tar.gz	f1c6529829f83c187d740d5f22aaa7032558534ffff140458f96317697eb34c1206a08e049b55527f10e23ed0017a38ca3cf3833d3016b24953b56ba6f762729
kubernetes-client-windows-386.tar.gz	34d420f96bc74eaa78420be178a08f4f5065c91270aa8f236353b4502a9ae8cad20974c6688b28b9f9324fcf06002d7310ed548e5cb9035f9801a0e132d8aa17
kubernetes-client-windows-amd64.tar.gz	8c112272e4bc48e3f9048cb6e7f845c0bb200d12239d254f2f49fc97980093844d47ecf0f5e64f045b69ea2bec6b0c255af513376861d2e10241f8685c30520b
kubernetes-client-windows-arm64.tar.gz	dbf04d5abdc2650b91b1908a5a61ddeeec341defc291736454b38d8bc8c3c6bf9d6eae7c49362a899b97f3f18f1a775653f6f1e602b19604bf3dd3a9237d8c5a

Server Binaries

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz	1e88dcb75f4b6fde297a3305e62c3b17dd479baec86b0bd6f7cd3f3ba4421b3ecf7f6ff5885ab75d3d611b68bc5844ad8af6416375f1a800c5e8e73f35aff19c
kubernetes-server-linux-arm64.tar.gz	d2eda4870d45b60408f7c1cad19a7772a85e8341b3cda9c132e4d9c44575541681834671a8cffc76c18ded98a14795088a93dc007de2efd77d9e0ca859ea5d19
kubernetes-server-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz	901603e0861a5055779221ff1cdc583ef5c9c803373bc063701d31ae9537864ab270c1302d6a28a0b6f7225d0317ce906599933e2906fa025eac9b60b734cce6
kubernetes-server-linux-s390x.tar.gz	623f4277300b0bf71384994e30ddaf575fe8302636be5e425dd848b20b65cc2f1dc52ad044414e830de9dfb06202be7658223b41157ac633af1372cb219bfc6c

Node Binaries

filename	sha512 hash
kubernetes-node-linux-amd64.tar.gz	4241d7cf7340a11cf5379599fff922378b50f0fad186a4648c31baad7b82ef601e5ae4a8fbe6d0e7ca0b6fe5e6f890196d9481a8a3b1f94937708815a35f608d
kubernetes-node-linux-arm64.tar.gz	887da59dea3760074659419763ec362770d8ad77c3e52d4f3b212f337c191b1c90168bf194deaabc24016458829240be7f2078de6d9b4cb89bba68dab3754216
kubernetes-node-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz	69c9c3cbc502e7060fed0e5f72e6a1abf524f38511ec3b0fb7b11fa8ecb9b0bb49f962f728b50eaa4480f3b7f790bdd9f1a86359b7b0c18acf8316e53e9bb5ad
kubernetes-node-linux-s390x.tar.gz	48c122f4c13e6df35c2d21614c3d8c43115a023b521bb04830bb9c363649a71159d6debcbb521ca43c3c521e2a62f4149e0a4bd34d7760eb492ce5f15a337b96
kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz	977fdb163d37f63b90cc737f2bb4ab7e68dac06febd6b85670ce62a8db3f61094a618289b01e2651a87f1becb50efdf860cdfe0e620511d81f73164ce98af518

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:v1.36.1	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.36.1	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.36.1	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.36.1	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler:v1.36.1	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
registry.k8s.io/kubectl:v1.36.1	amd64, arm64, ppc64le, s390x

Changelog since v1.36.0

Changes by Kind

Bug or Regression

DRA metadata read helper (KEP-5304): on decode skip only if version is unknown, return error if object/file is malformed (#138859, @alaypatel07) [SIG Node]
Fixed kubelet failure starting on ZFS due to missing cadvisor plugin. (#138590, @BenTheElder) [SIG Node]
Fixed stale remote HNS endpoint cleanup on Windows when a pod IP is reused across nodes in L2Bridge networks, preventing DNS timeouts caused by traffic being routed to the wrong node. (#138603, @princepereira) [SIG Network and Windows]
Kube-proxy does not perform full-sync operations when operation in large cluster mode (more than 1000 endpoints) (#138635, @aojea) [SIG Network]
Kubeadm: during 'kubeadm init', if the default 'admin.conf' and 'super-admin.conf' paths are used, load the files, but construct in memory kubeconfigs that point to the InitConfiguration.localAPIEndpoint instead of the ClusterConfiguration.controlPlaneEndpoint. This would resolve issues with delayed load balancers which are provisioned only after the first kube-apiserver instance starts. (#138682, @neolit123) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
Kubeadm: skip LocalAPIEndpoint defaulting on 'kubeadm join' for worker nodes. (#138802, @neolit123) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
Kubeadm: use a dedicated ClusterRole 'system:kubelet-api-admin' for the kube-apiserver kubelet client. (#138958, @neolit123) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
Kubeadm: when checking the etcd cluster status use a quorum approach, instead of considering the health of all members. This would allow the check to not fail if there are sufficient healthy voting members. (#138538, @ahrtr) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

Dependencies

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Contributors, the CHANGELOG-1.36.md has been bootstrapped with v1.36.1 release notes and you may edit now as needed.