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Minikube drops pre-1.28 test fixtures, golang.org/x bumps land across the tree

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A quiet day: minikube deletes 108 stale YAML fixtures for Kubernetes versions below its own v1.28.0 floor, while the rest of the wire is dependency bumps and localization merges.

testdata: remove dead test data for Kubernetes versions older than 1.28 kubernetes/minikube

by Roslaan001

Directory v1.16 through v1.27 is gone from pkg/minikube/bootstrapper/bsutil/testdata/, 108 YAML files in all, because those versions sit below constants.OldestKubernetesVersion (v1.28.0) and recentReleases in kubeadm_test.go no longer exercises them. Legacy dockershim socket fixtures go with them, and no functional code changes are required.

testdata: remove dead test data for Kubernetes versions older than 1.28 kubernetes/minikube

by Abdulsomad Olayiwola Abdulwahab

The same cleanup landed on main, so anything still asserting against pre-1.28 bootstrap fixtures will now fail to find them.

chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.289.0 to 0.297.0 kubernetes/minikube

by dependabot

google.golang.org/api moves from 0.289.0 to 0.297.0, and the upstream v0.297.0 release notes move go1.26.0 to the lowest supported Go version, which raises the toolchain floor for anyone building minikube from source.

KEP-6356: publishing ktesting kubernetes/enhancements

by pohly

Pohly's KEP-6356 publishes ktesting as a one-time policy KEP that goes straight to stable, so the testing package's status is now documented rather than only implied by the code.

Merge pull request #1872 from kubernetes/dependabot/go_modules/hack/tools/master/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2-2.32.2 kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere

by kubernetes-prow[bot]

Elsewhere it was maintenance: vsphere picked up golang.org/x/net 0.59.0 and golang.org/x/crypto 0.57.0 in /test/e2e plus ginkgo v2 2.32.2 under /hack/tools, minikube added a podman containerd functional test on ubuntu-24.04 x86, and the website landed Korean and pt-br documentation syncs including admission-webhooks-good-practices.

Quick answers

What shipped in Kubernetes on September 20, 2026?
A quiet day: minikube deletes 108 stale YAML fixtures for Kubernetes versions below its own v1.28.0 floor, while the rest of the wire is dependency bumps and localization merges. In total, 52 commits and 35 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Kubernetes on September 20, 2026?
9 developers shipped this update, including dependabot, kubernetes-prow[bot], suhyenim, paulofponciano, llokr1, Abdulsomad Olayiwola Abdulwahab, Nir Soffer, and ayyYoSam, and 1 more.
What were the notable Kubernetes updates?
testdata: remove dead test data for Kubernetes versions older than 1.28, testdata: remove dead test data for Kubernetes versions older than 1.28, and chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.289.0 to 0.297.0.