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APIMACHINERY 0.36.2 LANDS, AZURE CLOUD PROVIDER TESTS JUMP TO CAPZ MAIN
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The core Kubernetes API machinery bumped a minor version while test infrastructure pivoted cloud-provider-azure's IPv6 and dual-stack jobs to an upstream fix not yet backported to release branches.
Kubernetes released apimachinery 0.36.2 [1] [2] with dependency updates that ripple across the entire ecosystem. Simultaneously, test-infra shifted cloud-provider-azure 1.30 and 1.31 presubmit jobs from CAPZ release-1.21 to main [3] [4] [5] to pick up a critical fix for IPv6 and dual-stack scenarios that hasn't landed in older release branches. This is a deliberate pivot: the team identified a blocker in CAPZ's release branch and made the call to test against bleeding-edge instead. Minikube pulled in Docker CLI 29.5.2 [7] [8] as a dependency bump, and there's an ongoing fix to ai-playground documentation around device resource allocation [6]. Website docs continue steady syncing across locales and spotlights.
Action items
- → Verify apimachinery 0.36.2 in your dependency tree and test locally before next release kubernetes/release [plan]
- → Review CAPZ main branch behavior in your Azure test runs if you're using cloud-provider-azure 1.30 or 1.31 kubernetes/test-infra [monitor]
- → Check minikube changelog for Docker CLI 29.5.2 changes if you run local dev clusters kubernetes/minikube [monitor]
References
- [1] Bump k8s.io/apimachinery from 0.36.1 to 0.36.2 in the all group ↗ kubernetes/release
- [2] Merge pull request #4435 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/all-e2fab95551 kubernetes/release
- [3] chore: use capz main for cloud-provider-azure 1.30 and 1.31 presubmit versions for ipv6 and dualstack tests ↗ kubernetes/test-infra
- [4] Merge pull request #37251 from anndono/chengan/use-main-cloud-provider-azure-1.30-1.31-ipv6-dualstack kubernetes/test-infra
- [5] chore: use main for cloud-provider-azure 1.30 and 1.31 presubmit versions for ipv6 and dualstack tests kubernetes/test-infra
- [6] Fix ai-playground.md request limits to use the devices.es/dri ↗ kubernetes/minikube
- [7] Build(deps): Bump github.com/docker/cli from 29.4.1+incompatible to 29.5.2+incompatible ↗ kubernetes/minikube
- [8] Merge pull request #23095 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/github.com/docker/cli-29.5.2incompatible kubernetes/minikube
FAQ
- What changed in Kubernetes on June 15, 2026?
- The core Kubernetes API machinery bumped a minor version while test infrastructure pivoted cloud-provider-azure's IPv6 and dual-stack jobs to an upstream fix not yet backported to release branches.
- What should Kubernetes teams do about it?
- Verify apimachinery 0.36.2 in your dependency tree and test locally before next release • Review CAPZ main branch behavior in your Azure test runs if you're using cloud-provider-azure 1.30 or 1.31 • Check minikube changelog for Docker CLI 29.5.2 changes if you run local dev clusters
- Which Kubernetes repositories shipped on June 15, 2026?
- kubernetes/release, kubernetes/test-infra, kubernetes/minikube