Minor Improvements:

• Hyper-V: Add memory validation for odd numbers #17325
• QEMU: Improve cpu type and IP detection #17217
• Mask http(s)_proxy password from startup output #17116
• --delete-on-faliure also recreates cluster for kubeadm failures #16890
• Addon auto-pause: Configure intervals using --auto-pause-interval #17070
• --kubernetes-version checks GitHub for version validation and improved error output for invalid versions #16865

Bugs:

• QEMU: Fix addons failing to enable #17402
• Fix downloading the wrong kubeadm images for k8s versions after minikube release #17373
• Fix enabling & disabling addons with non-existing cluster #17324
• Fix delete if container-runtime doesn't exist #17347
• Fix network not found not being detected on new Docker versions #17323
• Fix addon registry doesn't follow Minikube DNS domain name configuration (--dns-domain) #15585

Version Upgrades:

• Bump Kubernetes version default: v1.28.3 and latest: v1.28.3 #17463
• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.9 to 1.5.11 #17225 #17259
• Addon headlamp: Update headlamp-k8s/headlamp image from v0.19.0 to v0.20.1 #17135 #17365
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.8.1 to v1.9.3 #17223 #17297 #17348 #17421
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.19.0 to v0.21.0 #17176 #17340
• Addon istio-provisioner: Update istio/operator image from 1.12.2 to 1.19.3 #17383 #17436
• Addon kong: Update kong image from 3.2 to 3.4.2 #17485
• Addon registry: Update registry image from 2.8.1 to 2.8.3 #17382 #17467
• CNI: Update calico from v3.26.1 to v3.26.3 #17363 #17375
• CNI: Update flannel from v0.22.1 to v0.22.3 #17102 #17263
• CNI: Update kindnetd from v20230511-dc714da8 to v20230809-80a64d96 #17233
• Kicbase/ISO: Update buildkit from v0.11.6 to v0.12.2 #17194
• Kicbase/ISO: Update containerd from v1.7.3 to v1.7.7 #17243 #17466
• Kicbase/ISO: Update crictl from v1.21.0 to v1.28.0 #17240
• Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 24.0.4 to 24.0.6 #17120 #17207
• Kicbase/ISO: Update nerdctl from 1.0.0 to 1.6.2 #17145 #17339 #17434
• Kicbase/ISO: Update runc from v1.1.7 to v1.1.9 #17250
• Kicbase: Bump ubuntu:jammy from 20230624 to 20231004 #17086 #17174 #17345 #17423

For a more detailed changelog, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• Anders F Björklund
• Dobes Vandermeer
• Emmanuel Chee-zaram Okeke
• Jeff MAURY
• Judah Nouriyelian
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• OneEpitome
• Piotr Resztak
• Predrag Rogic
• Raghavendra Talur
• Raiden Shogun
• Renato Moutinho
• Renato Silva
• Seongbin Hong
• Steven Powell
• Tristan Rice
• Wiktor Zając
• aiyijing
• jeremylinux-github
• joaquimrocha
• mahmut
• rogermm
• sunyuxuan
• tianlijun
• weidong
• Товарищ программист

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• medyagh (38 comments)
• spowelljr (19 comments)
• aiyijing (2 comments)
• Lyllt8 (1 comments)
• afbjorklund (1 comments)
• andresmmujica (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• afbjorklund (32 comments)
• rmsilva1973 (27 comments)
• pnasrat (25 comments)
• spowelljr (21 comments)
• megazone23 (11 comments)

Installation

See Getting Started

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