Who contributed to Kubernetes on July 16, 2026?

9 developers shipped this update, including hakman, geewynn, kubernetes-prow[bot], upodroid, Liunardy, kannon92, moshevayner, and Kunalbehbud, and 1 more.

What were the notable Kubernetes updates?

v1.36.0, Promote kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0 and 1.37.0-alpha.1 binary artifacts, and Promote kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0 and 1.37.0-alpha.1 images.

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KOPS 1.36 SHIPS WITH KUBERNETES 1.36 SUPPORT AND REWORKED ADDON MANAGEMENT

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on July 16, 2026 · About Kubernetes

9 people shipped this

hakman @hakman 4 cited

kubernetes-prow[bot] @kubernetes-prow[bot] 4 cited

Liunardy @Liunardy 1 cited

kannon92 @kannon92 1 cited

Kunalbehbud @Kunalbehbud 1 cited

geewynn @geewynn

upodroid @upodroid

moshevayner @moshevayner

thc1006 @thc1006

kOps 1.36.0 landed overnight with full Kubernetes 1.36 support, a fundamental overhaul of addon management, and the final chapter of the in-tree cloud provider deprecation.

In brief

kOps 1.36 lands with native Kubernetes 1.36 support and a reworked addon management system. cluster provisioning just got a little less janky.
Kubernetes core now accepts uint32 Linux UIDs in container status. 32-bit UID support that should've shipped years ago, but here we are.
kOps GitHub release promotion got parallelized and now validates checksums. small change, real safety improvement for binary distribution.
Kubernetes test-infra split slow node tests out of the containerd alpha suite. CI runtime just got a little faster for the people iterating.

The release [1] moves kops-channels from a standalone binary to a static pod on control-plane nodes, simplifying cluster bootstrapping and eliminating a deployment vector. Alongside this, three release artifacts crossed the finish line: kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0, and 1.37.0-alpha.1 binary and container images are now promoted and ready for distribution [2][3]. The kOps team also shipped a major quality-of-life win in their release pipeline [4], parallelizing GitHub artifact uploads and adding SHA256 validation before promotion, which will cut release times and catch corrupted binaries before they ship. On the core Kubernetes side, the test suite is getting leaner [5][6][7] with the removal of unnecessary feature tags and provider-specific tests that were creating maintenance burden, while the API layer now supports full 32-bit unsigned Linux UIDs in container status [8], fixing a long-standing limitation for systems using high UID ranges. The infrastructure teams are also preparing for regional expansion with experimental Azure EUAP region E2E testing [9][10] and splitting resource-intensive node tests into faster and slower tracks to fix timeout issues [11].

Action items

→ Plan kOps 1.36.0 upgrade before next cluster update cycle kubernetes/kops [plan]
→ Review kOps 1.36 breaking changes and addon management migration guide kubernetes/kops [plan]
→ Monitor Azure EUAP E2E test results for regional stability kubernetes/test-infra [monitor]

References

[1] v1.36.0 ↗ kubernetes/kops
[2] Promote kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0 and 1.37.0-alpha.1 binary artifacts ↗ kubernetes/k8s.io
[3] Promote kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0 and 1.37.0-alpha.1 images ↗ kubernetes/k8s.io
[4] hack: parallelize GitHub release promotion and add checksum validation ↗ kubernetes/kops
[5] Merge pull request #140542 from danwinship/ingress-no-feature kubernetes/kubernetes
[6] Merge pull request #140589 from borg-land/drop-reboot-test kubernetes/kubernetes
[7] Merge pull request #140529 from pohly/e2e-skip-if-provider-is kubernetes/kubernetes
[8] pkg/apis/core: allow uint32 Linux UIDs in container status (#138574) kubernetes/kubernetes
[9] feat(cloud-provider-azure): add experimental checkin for EUAP regions ↗ kubernetes/test-infra
[10] Merge pull request #37480 from Liunardy/cloud-provider-azure-euap-checkin-fix-run kubernetes/test-infra
[11] sig-node: split slow tests out of ci-kubernetes-node-e2e-containerd-alpha-features ↗ kubernetes/test-infra

Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on July 16, 2026?: kOps 1.36.0 landed overnight with full Kubernetes 1.36 support, a fundamental overhaul of addon management, and the final chapter of the in-tree cloud provider deprecation. In total, 60 commits, 37 pull requests, and 3 releases landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on July 16, 2026?: 9 developers shipped this update, including hakman, geewynn, kubernetes-prow[bot], upodroid, Liunardy, kannon92, moshevayner, and Kunalbehbud, and 1 more.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?: v1.36.0, Promote kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0 and 1.37.0-alpha.1 binary artifacts, and Promote kOps 1.35.2, 1.36.0 and 1.37.0-alpha.1 images.

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