We are rolling out AKS and EKS v1.26. This brings our supported AKS platforms to v1.26.3 and EKS to v1.26(.5). Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade
Timeline:
- Testing & rollout to non-production clusters
- Publish of this changelog
- If we have detected (possible) use of older apiVersion in your environments, we will post a GitHub issue in your repository with the details
- Production rollouts are planned to start during the course of weeks of 26/06 & 3/07
- Update this changelog when everything is finished
Important changes between K8s 1.25 and 1.26
For more detailed info on what’s new and changed, please make sure to check the Kubernetes 1.26 release announcement and the full Kubernetes 1.26.x changelog.
This release mostly focusses on graduating many features/apis to alpha, beta and stable status. Here’s a small list some interesting features graduating to stable:
- Job Tracking, to Support Massively Parallel Batch Workloads
- Support for mixed protocols (UDP/TCP) in LoadBalancer Services
AKS specific changes
Azure AKS 1.26 GA release notes.
EKS specific changes
AWS EKS 1.26 announcement blog and release notes.
In the process of upgrading EKS the following components have also been upgraded:
- KubeProxy to
v1.26.4-eksbuild.1 - CoreDNS to
v1.9.3-eksbuild.5 - VPC CNI to
v1.13.0-eksbuild.1 - EBS CSI Driver to
v1.19.0-eksbuild.2 - Cluster Autoscaler to
v1.26.3
Actions to take
There are no actions to take for you this release.