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Week Ending May 5 2024
Week Ending May 5, 2024
https://lwkd.info/2024/20240506
Developer News
WG Device Management has its own mailing list now.
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: v1.31 cycle starts, May 13th, 2024
The shadow application for the v1.31 release is open till May 15th. Don’t forget to apply if you’re interested in being a part of the upcoming Kubernetes release team!
Featured PRs
124519: Remove gcp in-tree cloud provider and credential providers
This PR removes the last remaining in-tree cloud provider and credential provider for GCP. This work is part of the overarching KEPs for moving in-tree cloud provider code and credential providers from k/k. This particular PR alone removes 1,071,842 lines of code from k/k.
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Fix for gitRepo volume privilege escalation flaw.
QueueingHint implemented for TaintToleration plugin to improve throughput of scheduler.
Fix to protobuf read bug in the protoc-gen-gogo tool overriding parameters.
Tracing to kube-aggregator proxyHandler.
kubernetes/cri-client staging repository added.
Deduplicate set expression values in metav1.LabelSelector fuzzer.
Promotions
RetryGenerateName to beta.
Deprecated
Generally available feature gate ConsistentHTTPGetHandlers removed.
kube-scheduler deprecated all non-csi volumelimit plugins
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