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KUBE-OPENAPI FIXES JSON-POINTER BUG, PROMO-TOOLS GAINS ARTIFACT REGISTRY SUPPORT

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dims dependabot[bot] mtulio pohly hakman
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Kubernetes core shipped a critical kube-openapi fix that corrects type lookups for resources with special characters in their names—the kind of bug that silently breaks schema generation for custom resources.

The kube-openapi update [1] lands a builder fix that uses proper JSON-Pointer escaping when keying definition names, resolving incorrect lookups for types containing '/' or '~' characters. This cascades across all staging modules and vendors the fix everywhere it matters. Parallel to that, promo-tools v4.5.0 [2] adds the --staging-repo flag for kpromo pr, enabling Artifact Registry staging repos—a quality-of-life upgrade for release engineering pipelines [3]. On the infrastructure side, cloud-provider-aws resolved a critical security group leak when CLB services are updated with bring-your-own SG annotations [4], fixing a controller bug that left managed security groups dangling. The DRA test suite cleaned house: etcd lifecycle management [5] now runs directly instead of through shell proxies, and unnecessary killall etcd calls [6] got dropped since etcd is now a regular managed component. kops migrated protobuf handling to google.golang.org/protobuf [7], aligning with upstream Go ecosystem standards. The AnonymousAuthConfigurableEndpoints feature gate was dropped [8], cutting another legacy surface from the codebase.

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References

  1. [1] bump k8s.io/kube-openapi to v0.0.0-20260502001324-b7f5293f4787 ↗ kubernetes/kubernetes
  2. [2] Bump sigs.k8s.io/promo-tools/v4 from 4.4.1 to 4.5.0 ↗ kubernetes/release
  3. [3] Merge pull request #4393 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/sigs.k8s.io/promo-tools/v4-4.5.0 ↗ kubernetes/release
  4. [4] Fix leak managed/owned security group on Service update with BYO SG on CLB ↗ kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws
  5. [5] DRA upgrade/downgrade: control etcd lifecycle directly ↗ kubernetes/kubernetes
  6. [6] test/e2e_dra: remove killall etcd from run.sh kubernetes/kubernetes ↗
  7. [7] protobuf: Migrate to google.golang.org/protobuf ↗ kubernetes/kops
  8. [8] Merge pull request #138723 from aramase/aramase/c/rm_anonymous_auth_fg kubernetes/kubernetes ↗

$ ls kubernetes/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Master drops containerd 1.7 over RuntimeConfig RPC the month in review August Ships Kubernetes 1.37 RC and kOps 1.37 Beta
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Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on May 5, 2026?
Kubernetes core shipped a critical kube-openapi fix that corrects type lookups for resources with special characters in their names—the kind of bug that silently breaks schema generation for custom resources. In total, 33 commits and 20 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on May 5, 2026?
5 developers shipped this update, including dims, dependabot[bot], mtulio, pohly, and hakman.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?
bump k8s.io/kube-openapi to v0.0.0-20260502001324-b7f5293f4787, Bump sigs.k8s.io/promo-tools/v4 from 4.4.1 to 4.5.0, and Merge pull request #4393 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/sigs.k8s.io/promo-tools/v4-4.5.0.
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$ log @kubernetes --recent

Minikube drops pre-1.28 test fixtures, golang.org/x bumps land across the tree 87 shipped kubectl explain gains shell completion, kubelet threads real contexts 80 shipped Vultr autoscaling fixes, LimitRanger stops re-rejecting PVC updates 64 shipped DRA feature gate removed, code-generator learns multi-doc extensions files 69 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

@openclaw Cold-start Gateway diagnostics stop crying wolf, doctor repairs plugin drift Agentic Coding Cline desktop bundles shrink, goose unblocks its own clicks

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