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Per-release EC2 scale jobs, kops bastion capacity fallbacks
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The day's real work is in CI plumbing: per-release EC2 scale-performance lanes, kops e2e bastions that survive EC2 capacity shortfalls, and a git-sync startup panic closed out.
Add per-release ec2 scale-performance-100 jobs kubernetes/test-infra
ci-kubernetes-e2e-ec2-scale-performance-100 now carries fork-per-release, with hand-forked jobs for release-1.36 (second cron tier, since that branch is already in the stable1 tier) and release-1.37. perf-dash picks the lanes up as aws-100Nodes-1.36 and aws-100Nodes-1.37, giving per-release kubelet and control-plane resource comparisons.
kubetest2: Give AWS e2e bastions instance-type fallbacks kubernetes/kops
Over 60 days, 27 AWS kops e2e builds failed because EC2 had no capacity for an instance type in a single-AZ cluster's availability zone, and in every case the error named other AZs in the same region with capacity. The kubetest2 change gives e2e bastions instance-type fallbacks, so those runs stop failing on capacity alone.
Fix panic when git config contains a key without a value kubernetes/git-sync
git-sync could panic at startup when git config list -z returned a key with no value: the parser assumed every entry had a \n separator and indexed the second element unconditionally, but git emits such keys as key\0. Entries without a value are now handled explicitly and preserved in diagnostic output as null, distinct from an explicitly empty "".
Pin kops gce scale-performance-100 forks to release-branch CI builds kubernetes/test-infra
The 1.36 and 1.37 forks of ci-kubernetes-e2e-gce-scale-performance-100 had been deploying master builds, because the kops scalability scenario reads K8S_VERSION rather than KUBERNETES_VERSION. K8S_VERSION is now set explicitly on the master job with a fork-per-release replacement, the forks point at ci/latest-1.36.txt and ci/latest-1.37.txt, and the unused KUBERNETES_VERSION is gone.
updates for Steering Committe elections 2026 kubernetes/community
Janet Kuo, Michael McCune, and Priyanka Saggu join the Steering Committee, while Antonio Ojea, Benjamin Elder, and Sascha Grunert move to Emeritus. Separately, the 2026 election's ballots.csv landed.
