Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 18, 2026?

13 developers shipped this update, including kubernetes-prow[bot], Mario Jason Braganza, Bslabe123, rifelpet, yussufsh, Patrick Ohly, vitorfloriano, and moshevayner, and 5 more.

What were the notable Kubernetes updates?

feat(akamai): manage etcd block storage volumes, Update default CNI plugins version to v1.7.1 / v1.8.0 / v1.9.1, and Update Cilium to v1.18.12.

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KOPS BRINGS AKAMAI ETCd MANAGEMENT TO THE FOREFRONT

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:56 UTC on August 18, 2026 · About Kubernetes

13 people shipped this

hakman @hakman 3 cited

my-git9 @my-git9 2 cited

kubernetes-prow[bot] @kubernetes-prow[bot] 1 cited

Bslabe123 @Bslabe123 1 cited

rifelpet @rifelpet 1 cited

moshevayner @moshevayner 1 cited

yucori @yucori 1 cited

Mario Jason Braganza @jasonbraganza

yussufsh @yussufsh

Patrick Ohly @pohly

vitorfloriano @vitorfloriano

windsonsea @windsonsea

dependabot @dependabot

Kops is about to make etcd volume management on Akamai a first-class citizen, and the CI pipeline is getting smarter about SSH user discovery.

The headline act is kops gaining the ability to manage etcd block storage volumes on Akamai [1], a feature that closes a long-standing gap for kops users on that platform. In the same repo, hakman keeps the networking stack current, bumping default CNI plugins to v1.7.1/v1.8.0/v1.9.1 across Kubernetes minors [2], alongside updates to Cilium v1.18.12 [3] and Calico v3.31.6 [4], so clusters get modern networking defaults without manual tweaks. Over in test-infra, the kops GCE periodics now automatically discover the SSH user for every eligible job, not just the two canaries, and both canaries returned green on their first post-merge run [5]. The release pipeline is also getting a performance boost: the merged logrus bump to v1.10.0 brings "substantial performance improvements, concurrency correctness" [6], which is worth rebuilding release tooling for. Meanwhile, the website desk spent the day on translations, adding Korean docs for pod group scheduling [7] and syncing Chinese storage classes [8] and pod priority preemption [9] docs. On the org front, sig-scalability adds three new inference-perf maintainers to align with the OWNERS_ALIASES [10].

Action items

→ Review the Akamai etcd volume management PR and test against your Akamai clusters kubernetes/kops [plan]
→ Rebuild release tooling with the merged logrus v1.10.0 for performance gains kubernetes/release [plan]
→ Monitor the kops CI SSH discovery rollout on GCE periodics for any regressions kubernetes/test-infra [monitor]
→ Update kops clusters to new CNI plugin defaults and Cilium/Calico versions in next maintenance window kubernetes/kops [plan]

References

[1] feat(akamai): manage etcd block storage volumes ↗ kubernetes/kops
[2] Update default CNI plugins version to v1.7.1 / v1.8.0 / v1.9.1 ↗ kubernetes/kops
[3] Update Cilium to v1.18.12 ↗ kubernetes/kops
[4] Update Calico to v3.31.6 ↗ kubernetes/kops
[5] kops: discover the SSH user on all eligible GCE periodics ↗ kubernetes/test-infra
[6] Merge pull request #4494 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/github.com/sirupsen/logrus-1.10.0 kubernetes/release
[7] [ko] Translate content/ko/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/podgroup-scheduling.md ↗ kubernetes/website
[8] [zh-cn]sync storage-classes ↗ kubernetes/website
[9] [zh-cn]sync pod-priority-preemption ↗ kubernetes/website
[10] sig-scalability: add Bslabe123, jjk-g, lenadankin to inference-perf-maintainers ↗ kubernetes/org

Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on August 18, 2026?: Kops is about to make etcd volume management on Akamai a first-class citizen, and the CI pipeline is getting smarter about SSH user discovery. In total, 44 commits and 28 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 18, 2026?: 13 developers shipped this update, including kubernetes-prow[bot], Mario Jason Braganza, Bslabe123, rifelpet, yussufsh, Patrick Ohly, vitorfloriano, and moshevayner, and 5 more.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?: feat(akamai): manage etcd block storage volumes, Update default CNI plugins version to v1.7.1 / v1.8.0 / v1.9.1, and Update Cilium to v1.18.12.

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