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Last Week in Kubernetes Development - Week Ending December 14 2025
Week Ending December 14, 2025
https://lwkd.info/2025/20251215
Developer News
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: Release day, 17 December
Featured PRs
KEP of the Week
Other Merges
Fix nil panic in podcertificatemanager
Subprojects and Dependency Updates
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Shoutouts
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December 15, 2025 at 01:11PM
DevOps & AI Toolkit - DevOps Q&A - December 18 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_zyA1GfqE8
DevOps Q&A - December 18, 2025
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google/mcp: Google 💚 MCP
Google 💚 MCP
Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things"
Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists
iRobot has filed for bankruptcy; what Roomba owners need to know
iRobot, the company which invented robot vacuum cleaners, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy some 23 years after it first...
Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive
Technical deep dive into Claude Agent Skills' prompt-based meta-tool architecture. Learn how context injection design, two-message patterns, LLM-based routing, and runtime context modification enable sophisticated AI agent behaviors. Complete implementation guide covering SKILL.md structure, execution lifecycle, permission scoping, and design patterns for building LLM tool systems. Essential for AI engineers, prompt engineers, and technical architects building agentic applications.
Papermoon: A Space-Grade Linux for the NewSpace Era
Discover Papermoon, the open source project creating a standard, space-grade Linux to replace bespoke software for satellites and spacecraft in the NewSpace era.
Introducing pg_clickhouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse
Today, we’re pleased to release pg_clickhouse, an Apache 2-licensed PostgreSQL extension to transparently execute analytics queries on ClickHouse directly from PostgreSQL.
Framework | Memory pricing updates
Updates on memory pricing and navigating the volatile memory market
Last Week in Kubernetes Development - Week Ending December 7 2025
Week Ending December 7, 2025
https://lwkd.info/2025/20251211
Developer News
Maintainer activity proposals for Kubecon EU are due this Sunday. That includes Maintainer Track sessions, Maintainer Summit proposals, Project Lightning Talks, requests for ContribFests, and requests for Project Pavillion Kiosks. Leads for SIGs and CNCF Projects should submit their proposals as soon as possible.
The Checkpoint/Restore WG has started and you can join a kickoff meeting next Thursday.
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: Release day, 17 December
We are in the final week before releasing 1.35. Make sure to respond quickly to any blocker issues or test failures your SIG is tagged on.
Kubernetes v1.35.0-rc.1 has been built and pushed using Golang version 1.25.5. Patch releases 1.33.7, 1.34.3 were published this week, built with Golang version 1.24.11 and release of v1.32.11 has been delayed.
Merges
Golang bump: to v1.24.11 in 1.32-1.34, and to v1.25.5 in 1.35
Fix IP address detection in image building for all supported versions
IPallocator won’t automatically retry all errors
Shoutouts
Urvashi: Hey team, Just wanted to give a big shout-out to Doc Team! We successfully tracked all 60 KEPs for the release — truly awesome work! This definitely wouldn’t have been possible without each one of you @yudocaa @kernel-kun @Khang Nguyen @anshuman @Orlix thank you for consistently showing up, collaborating, and keeping everything on track. A special mention to @Dipesh, who has been our guiding star throughout the cycle always there with quick suggestions, new approaches, and calm leadership. Huge thanks to you Dipesh!! And huge thanks to @Drew Hagen and @Kat Cosgrove as well for stepping in at the right moments, nudging (and sometimes gently pushing) the KEP owners so we didn’t miss any critical deadlines. That really helped us keep everything on schedule. Overall, feeling super proud of us all!
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December 11, 2025 at 06:48PM
MCPs for Developers Who Think They Don't Need MCPs
If you think MCPs are overhyped, here's what you're missing
AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What’s Next
DevOps: Failed or Evolved? Kelsey Hightower – one of the most influential figures in DevOps and cloud-native engineering – breaks down the future of DevOps, ...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: Comms & Social Media - Why Does a Projec...
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10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
: Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets
Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel
The newest version of the Linux kernel offers two years of long-term support, plus upgrades to the slab memory allocator, security hardening and more.
Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation.
In one year, MCP has become a foundational protocol for agentic AI. Joining AAIF ensures MCP remains open and community-driven. https://t.co/718OwwyFJL
giovtorres/kvm-install-vm: Bash script to build local virtual machines using KVM/libvirt and cloud-init.
Bash script to build local virtual machines using KVM/libvirt and cloud-init. - giovtorres/kvm-install-vm
Unlocking 15% More Performance: A Case Study in LLVM Optimization for RISC-V
A summary of the talk at the RISC-V NA Summit
RISE
Apple Containers are a thing | containerization/examples/ctr-example/lab.md at main · apple/containerization
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. - apple/containerization
kubernetes/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.34.md at master · kubernetes/kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management - kubernetes/kubernetes
ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free
No Creative Cloud required.
Short Family's Ultimate Holiday Movie Marathon: 29 Holiday Films
Short Family's Ultimate Holiday Movie Marathon: 29 Holiday Films
https://chrisshort.net/short-familys-ultimate-holiday-movie-marathon-29-holiday-films/
From classic comedies to animated adventures, this is our family's top 29 holiday movies. These films bring joy, laughter, and holiday cheer to every season.
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December 10, 2025
Trump greenlights Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to China if U.S. gets 25% cut, says Xi responded positively
Nvidia and chip rival Advanced Micro Devices agreed over the summer to share 15% of the revenue from China chip sales with the U.S. government.
Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.
Some Teens Are on Social Media ‘Almost Constantly,’ Survey Says
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot.
From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
Meta’s push to develop its next frontier model, codenamed Avocado, under new AI leadership is creating internal friction as it races rivals OpenAI and Google.
IBM to Acquire Confluent
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
: The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic
DevOps & AI Toolkit - DevOps Q&A - December 11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXRQFwy3ko
DevOps Q&A - December 11
In this AMA livestream, Viktor and Scott dive into a wide range of DevOps and platform engineering topics submitted by viewers.
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