Medik8s 2026 First Release

[Or Raz]

The Medik8s team is thrilled to announce the new release of Node Healthcheck Operator (NHC) v0.11.0, Self Node Remediation (SNR) v0.12.0, Fence Agents Remediation (FAR) v0.7.0, Machine Deletion Remediation (MDR) v0.6.0, and Node Maintenance Operator (NMO) v0.20.0.

The new Medik8s operators are available upstream for Kubernetes and OKD, and with support on the OpenShift Container Platform (as Red Hat Workload Availability (RHWA)). See our release notes for the complete list of changes: NHC v0.11.0, SNR v0.12.0, FAR v0.7.0, MDR v0.6.0, and NMO v0.20.0.
Notable Changes

• Add a storm recovery mechanism for NHC
• Aligned taint usage for cordoning unhealthy nodes in SNR and FAR
• Reduce the chance of unavailable manager pod for NHC, SNR, and FAR.
• Remove default shared secret name and add validation for fence agent parameters in FAR.

For more, visit our website https://www.medik8s.io/, contribute on GitHub https://github.com/medik8s, and DM for more.

Best regards on behalf of the Medik8s team,

Or Raz

(He/Him/His)

Senior Software Engineer, team Dragonfly, Workload Availability for Red Hat OpenShift

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