This is small release containing patched dependencies and Kubernetes 1.34, as well as a bugfix for Kubernetes v1.33.0+ cluster reboots.

Breaking Changes

The default node image is now kindest/node:v1.34.0@sha256:7416a61b42b1662ca6ca89f02028ac133a309a2a30ba309614e8ec94d976dc5a

New Features

• Updated to containerd 2.1.4

Images pre-built for this release:

• v1.34.0: kindest/node:v1.34.0@sha256:7416a61b42b1662ca6ca89f02028ac133a309a2a30ba309614e8ec94d976dc5a
• v1.33.4: kindest/node:v1.33.4@sha256:25a6018e48dfcaee478f4a59af81157a437f15e6e140bf103f85a2e7cd0cbbf2
• v1.32.8: kindest/node:v1.32.8@sha256:abd489f042d2b644e2d033f5c2d900bc707798d075e8186cb65e3f1367a9d5a1
• v1.31.12: kindest/node:v1.31.12@sha256:0f5cc49c5e73c0c2bb6e2df56e7df189240d83cf94edfa30946482eb08ec57d2

NOTE: You must use the @sha256 digest to guarantee an image built for this release, until such a time as we switch to a different tagging scheme. Even then we will highly encourage digest pinning for security and reproducibility reasons.

See also:

• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#creating-a-cluster
• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#building-images

NOTE: These node images support amd64 and arm64, both of our supported platforms. You must use the same platform as your host, for more context see https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/2718

Fixes

• Fix an issue with rebooting v1.33.0+ clusters https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/3941
• Add priority class system-critical to kindnetd
• Fix HA control-plane loadbalancer for podman https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/pull/3962
• Fix node-image builds with relative source paths

Contributors

Committers for this release:

• @BenTheElder
• @dims
• @k8s-ci-robot
• @oduludo
• @stmcginnis
• @tchap
• @tom1299