Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 21, 2026?

8 developers shipped this update, including hakman, rifelpet, kubernetes-prow[bot], Martin André, Arunesh Pandey, Dawid Pastuszka, palnabarun, and dependabot.

What were the notable Kubernetes updates?

k8s-cloud/ci-builder: bump to Go 1.26.5 for 1.34 and 1.35, Pin scaleway-sdk-go to v1.0.0-beta.36, and nodeup: install kernel-modules-extra on RHEL10-family nodes.

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Go 1.26.5 image gap stalls Kubernetes patch builds

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:56 UTC on August 21, 2026 · About Kubernetes

8 people shipped this

hakman @hakman 1 cited

rifelpet @rifelpet 1 cited

Martin André @mandre 1 cited

Arunesh Pandey @aruneshpa 1 cited

palnabarun @palnabarun 1 cited

dependabot @dependabot 1 cited

kubernetes-prow[bot] @kubernetes-prow[bot]

Dawid Pastuszka @Singularity23x0

A missing Go patch release is bricking patch builds for Kubernetes 1.34 and 1.35, and the fix just merged.

The missing k8s-ci-builder images for Go 1.26.5 have been blocking Kubernetes patch builds for 1.34 and 1.35, but the bump has now merged [1]. Meanwhile, kops pinned scaleway-sdk-go to v1.0.0-beta.36 because "Newer versions build SRN strings with text/template, which disables linker method pruning and adds ~78MB to every binary" [2] - a drop-everything upgrade to avoid bloat. On the RHEL10 front, kops is addressing missing kernel modules on EL10 AMIs; without kernel-modules-extra, iptables-nft rules relying on nft_compat and xt_* fail, as the modules are "absent from /lib/modules entirely" [3]. The community desk saw maintainer housekeeping for gophercloud, adding two new maintainers and dropping inactive ones [4], plus a new Slack channel for the VM Operator project [5]. Release also merged a testify bump to v1.12.1 [6], a minor dependency refresh. Overall, 15 commits and 9 PRs across the three repos this period, with the builder image fix being the most critical.

Action items

→ Verify k8s-ci-builder images for Go 1.26.5 are live for 1.34 and 1.35 patch builds kubernetes/release [immediate]
→ Plan to upgrade kops to a version with the scaleway-sdk-go v1.0.0-beta.36 pin to avoid 78MB binary bloat kubernetes/kops [plan]
→ Monitor the RHEL10 kernel-modules-extra fix in kops; test iptables-nft rules on EL10 nodes once it ships kubernetes/kops [monitor]

References

[1] k8s-cloud/ci-builder: bump to Go 1.26.5 for 1.34 and 1.35 ↗ kubernetes/release
[2] Pin scaleway-sdk-go to v1.0.0-beta.36 ↗ kubernetes/kops
[3] nodeup: install kernel-modules-extra on RHEL10-family nodes ↗ kubernetes/kops
[4] Update gophercloud maintainers kubernetes/community
[5] Add #kube-vm-operator Slack channel kubernetes/community
[6] Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.12.0 to 1.12.1 in the all group ↗ kubernetes/release

Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on August 21, 2026?: A missing Go patch release is bricking patch builds for Kubernetes 1.34 and 1.35, and the fix just merged. In total, 15 commits and 9 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on August 21, 2026?: 8 developers shipped this update, including hakman, rifelpet, kubernetes-prow[bot], Martin André, Arunesh Pandey, Dawid Pastuszka, palnabarun, and dependabot.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?: k8s-cloud/ci-builder: bump to Go 1.26.5 for 1.34 and 1.35, Pin scaleway-sdk-go to v1.0.0-beta.36, and nodeup: install kernel-modules-extra on RHEL10-family nodes.

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