Product Launches

With 1.33 now end-of-life, Kubernetes 1.34 becomes the oldest of the three maintained branches (1.36, 1.35, 1.34); teams on 1.34 should plan their next upgrade window.

A CNCF LitmusChaos case study reports Flipkart executing 2,000+ chaos experiments on a multi-tenant platform to drive production-grade reliability ahead of its peak sale.

Kubernetes 1.33 reached end of life on June 28, 2026, joining the wind-down of older branches; the maintained releases are now 1.36, 1.35 and 1.34.

Cilium 1.19 ships network policy enhancements, promotes Multi-Pool IPAM to stable, and advances IPv6 support for the eBPF-based CNI, networking and observability project.

CNCF's Annual Cloud Native Survey reports 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production and 98% use some cloud-native technology, with AI workloads driving fresh adoption.

From v2.3.0 (May 2026), kgateway moved its AI and agentic features into a separate agentgateway project, a proxy for AI-native protocols like MCP and A2A.

Kyverno 1.18 is the policy engine's first release since graduating within CNCF, continuing its role in policy-as-code for Kubernetes.

Argo CD 3.4 is the current supported line alongside 3.3 and 3.2; the 3.1 series reached end of life, so teams should upgrade off it.

Kubernetes 1.36 adds native GPU scheduling via Workload Aware Scheduling and DRA, and graduates fine-grained Kubelet authorization to stable.

Istio's latest release extends Ambient (sidecar-less) mode to multicluster, adds a Gateway API Inference Extension and experimental agentgateway for AI workloads.