Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 15, 2026?

10 developers shipped this update, including anneheartrecord, kubernetes-prow[bot], oirom, fjvi13, moshevayner, hakman, rifelpet, and esposem, and 2 more.

What were the notable Kubernetes updates?

Remove unmaintained Weave Net and Romana network policy provider pages, Merge pull request #18689 from hakman/remove-privateweave-fixtures, and chore(networking): bump aws-cni to version 1.23.0.

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KUBERNETES SCRUBS DEAD CODE: WEAVE NET AND ROMANA REMOVED FROM DOCS

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on August 15, 2026 · About Kubernetes

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kubernetes-prow[bot] @kubernetes-prow[bot] 2 cited

anneheartrecord @anneheartrecord 1 cited

moshevayner @moshevayner 1 cited

rifelpet @rifelpet 1 cited

The Kubernetes website purged references to two unmaintained network providers archived since 2024 and 2019 respectively, closing a security guidance gap before they could mislead operators.

The docs team yanked Weave Net and Romana from the Install a Network Policy Provider section [1], removing stale alternatives that left clusters vulnerable to unpatched security issues. Weave was archived in 2024 [1], while Romana hasn't shipped updates in five years. In parallel, kops dropped stale test fixtures for privateweave [2] and bumped AWS CNI to 1.23.0 [3], signaling a broader shift away from deprecated networking layers. The CI infrastructure team meantime culled a shared SSH key from 1,647 AWS test jobs [4], replacing it with ephemeral per-cluster keypairs that kubetest2-kops now generates on the fly. In kube-state-metrics, a fix prevents deployment metric collection from panicking when rollingUpdate values are unset [5], hardening metric scrape reliability. All moves trace to operational hygiene: kill dead code, rotate secrets, harden metrics collection.

Action items

→ Review your Network Policy Provider setup; if using Weave Net or Romana, migrate immediately to maintained alternatives kubernetes/website [immediate]
→ Upgrade kops clusters and regenerate CI SSH keypairs to use ephemeral per-cluster keys kubernetes/kops [plan]
→ Update kube-state-metrics to 2.x if running deployment metric scrape on clusters with unset rollingUpdate specs kubernetes/kube-state-metrics [monitor]

References

[1] Remove unmaintained Weave Net and Romana network policy provider pages ↗ kubernetes/website
[2] Merge pull request #18689 from hakman/remove-privateweave-fixtures kubernetes/kops
[3] chore(networking): bump aws-cni to version 1.23.0 ↗ kubernetes/kops
[4] kops: drop preset-aws-ssh from all AWS jobs ↗ kubernetes/test-infra
[5] Merge pull request #3083 from mrueg/deployment-rollingupdate-no-panic kubernetes/kube-state-metrics

Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on August 15, 2026?: The Kubernetes website purged references to two unmaintained network providers archived since 2024 and 2019 respectively, closing a security guidance gap before they could mislead operators. In total, 40 commits and 28 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 15, 2026?: 10 developers shipped this update, including anneheartrecord, kubernetes-prow[bot], oirom, fjvi13, moshevayner, hakman, rifelpet, and esposem, and 2 more.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?: Remove unmaintained Weave Net and Romana network policy provider pages, Merge pull request #18689 from hakman/remove-privateweave-fixtures, and chore(networking): bump aws-cni to version 1.23.0.

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