Improvements

• Improve ingress-dns addon for ipv4 and windows v0.0.4 (#21449)
• iso: Disable grub timeout speeding up vm start by 5 seconds (#20895)
• improve docker service reliability, update docker systemd files (#21174)
• Don't require both --mount for using --mount-string and remove default mount-string (#21250)
• Update oldest supported Kubernetes versions (#21490)
• license cmd: don't fail if output dir doesn't exist & download from github assets first (#21206)
• remove deprecated proxy-refresh-interval v2 etcd flag (#21278)
• vmnet: Support offloading for krunkit (#20831)
• Don't call startKicServiceTunnel for non-kic drivers (#20863)
• krunkit: Disable offloading for faster networking (#21341)
• HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v0.9.1 to v1.0.0 (#20999)(#21228)

Depreciation

• Deprecate HyperKit driver with warning (#21024)

Bug fixes

• fix dirty commit version (#21062)
• Fix minikube image load on windows (#20529) (#20921)
• Fix mount to same folder causing Input/output error (#21077)
• fix: YAML file escape error problem affecting addons (#20904)
• iso: Fix minikube stop with vfkit and krunkit drivers (#21089)
• iso: Fix console for vfkit/krunkit (#20832)

Addons

• Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.17.2 to v0.17.3 (#21225)
• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.34 to 1.5.41 (#20976)(#21040)(#21243)(#21287)(#21359)(#21512)
• Addon Headlamp: Update Headlamp image from v0.28.0 to v0.34.0 (#21238)(#21508)
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.12.2 to v1.13.2 (#20909)(#21232)(#21353)(#21458)
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.40.0 to v0.44.1 (#20873)(#21038)(#21240)(#21462)(#21510)(#21358)
• Addon kong: Update kong image from 3.9.0 to 3.9.1 (#20966)(#21503)
• Addon kong: Update kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller image from 3.4.5 to 3.5.1 (#20908)(#20969)(#21034)(#21282)
• Addon kubevirt: Update bitnami/kubectl image from 1.33.1 to 1.33.4 (#20911)(#20939)(#21235)(#21283)(#21414)
• Addon metrics-server: Update metrics-server/metrics-server image from v0.7.2 to v0.8.0 (#21033)
• Addon registry: Update registry image from 3.0.0 to 3.0.0 (#21242)
• Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.11.2 to v1.12.2 (#20868)(#21351)
• Addon kubetail: update version 0.13.3 (#21244)

CNI versions

• CNI: Update calico from v3.30.0 to v3.30.3 (#20871)(#20971)(#21416)
• CNI: Update cilium from v1.17.4 to v1.18.1 (#20968)(#21226)(#21349)
• CNI: Update flannel from v0.26.7 to v0.27.0 (#20907)(#21230)(#21504)

Base image versions

• iso: Update to longterm kernel to 6.6.95 (#20995)
• iso: Enable VirtioFS for x86_64 and aarch64 (#21147)
• iso: Improve build and clean up configuration (#20991)
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cni-plugins from v1.7.1 to v1.8.0 (#21517)
• Kicbase/ISO: Update crun from 1.19 to 1.23.1 (#21198)(#21330)
• Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 28.0.4 to 28.4.0 (#21053)(#21248)(#21488)
• Kicbase: Bump ubuntu:jammy from 20250415.1 to 20250819 (#21233)(#21413)(#21505)

UI

• redo "minikube profile list" to move the verbose details into a --det… (#20544)
• improve config flag long description (#21515)
• Refactor spinner library & hide sub steps after spinning (#21215)
• do not show "create github issue" twice if kubeadm init fails (#21263)
• Refactor table rendering (#20893)

UI/Translations

• Add Greak Translation
• Add more Korean translations (#21467)(#21465)
• Add more French translation (#21050)(#20862)(#20945)(#20964)(#21156)(#21372)(#21514)

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• Aaron Nall
• Andres Morey
• ByoungUk Lee
• Chemabj
• Cosmic Oppai
• Divy Singhvi
• gopherorg
• Imran Pochi
• James World
• Jeff MAURY
• Joaquim Rocha
• Jun Sugimoto
• Kartik Joshi
• Kaviraj Sankameeswaran
• Kay Yan
• Kubernetes Prow Robot
• Laxman Gupta
• Lefteris T.
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• Nir Soffer
• Predrag Rogic
• Shin Jihoon
• Shin_Jihoon
• Steven Powell
• Tian
• VerlorenerReisender
• Victor Ubahakwe

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• medyagh (145 comments)
• nirs (102 comments)
• afbjorklund (18 comments)
• prezha (11 comments)
• Copilot (5 comments)
• bobsira (4 comments)
• cfergeau (2 comments)
• gabrielgbs97 (2 comments)
• aronahl (1 comments)
• ComradeProgrammer (1 comments)
• illume (1 comments)
• rata (1 comments)
• wt (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• afbjorklund (37 comments)
• nirs (21 comments)
• divysinghvi (10 comments)
• LJTian (9 comments)
• medyagh (8 comments)

Installation

See Getting Started

Binary Checksums

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ISO Checksums

amd64: f5722d2c5033bde74eb4803e4ea47e872a0436a32a2fa7b0fc4fbb3a3e5e4446
arm64: 93c0c72325d3c439598fb2e6517bc34c8dd715c9b03262ce65910a368bae00bb

Footnote

The docker-machine-driver-kvm2 aux drivers binaries were rebuilt after the release to include https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/21550 that was affecting KVM driver on Fedora with SELinux enabled.