Kubernetes changelog

Kubernetes changelog is available in: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Kubernetes is released 4 times per year approximately every 3 months.

2021

• Release 1.21 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.21.md

2020

• Release 1.20 Dec 2020 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.20.md (announcement)

• Release 1.19 Aug 2020 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/08/26/kubernetes-release-1.19-accentuate-the-paw-sitive/
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.19.md
    • Increased support from 9 months to 1 year
    • Ingress API GA

• Release 1.18 (March 2020)
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.18.md
  • Announcement: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/03/25/kubernetes-1-18-release-announcement/
    • New Ingress pathType resources: Exact, Prefix
    • Introduced kubectl diff and kubectl debug
    • PVC cloning
    • Graduate NodeLocal DNSCache to GA
    • New EndpointSlice API
    • New CertificateSigningRequest (CSR) API

2019

• Release 1.17, Dec 09, 2019 announcement (Red Hat OpenShift 4.4)
  • https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/notes/#v1-17-0
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.17.md

• Release 1.16, Sep 18, 2019 announcement
  • https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/notes/#v1-16-0
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.16.md
    • EndpointSlice API (beta)

• Release 1.15, June 19, 2019 announcement
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.15.md#kubernetes-v115-release-notes, ** https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.15.md

• Release 1.14 (25 March 2019)

2018

• Release 1.13 (03/12/2018) : CSI GA, kubeadm GA, CoreDNS default DNS Server (was first introduced in version 1.09)

• Release 1.12 (27/Sep/2018): https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.12.md

• Release 1.11 (27/Jun/2018): https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.11.md, (Announcement)

• Release 1.10 (26/March/2018): https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.10.md, (Announcement)

2017

• Release 1.9 (15/Dec/2017), announcement
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.9.md
    • Workloads API GA

• Release 1.8 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/09/kubernetes-18-security-workloads-and/
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.8.md

Older releases

• Release 1.2: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.2.md#v120
• Release 1.1:
  • Feature: any container in a pod can enable privileged mode

2015

• 1.0 July 2015

Related commands

• kubectl version
• kubeadm upgrade

See also

• The History of Kubernetes: https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-kubernetes/
• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)
• Software changelogs, git log, GA, EoL, EOS, release cycle, apt changelog, docker-compose changelog

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/notes/#v1-14-0

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/12/03/kubernetes-1-13-release-announcement/

https://www.storagereview.com/kubernetes_announces_version_112

https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-112-released

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/06/27/kubernetes-1.11-release-announcement/

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.10.md/#v1100

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.2.md#v120