Issues

• kube-controller-manager images ship tzdata 2026b: CronJob timeZone is an hour off for Africa/Casablanca now and for Edmonton, Inuvik and Winnipeg from 2026-11-01

  area/release-engkind/bugneeds-prioritysig/release
  kubernetes/release#4563 · Filter by author CyberNativeAI opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Dependency update - Golang 1.27.2/1.26.9

  area/dependencyarea/release-engkind/featureneeds-prioritysig/release
  kubernetes/release#4561 · Filter by author xmudrii opened on Oct 12, 2026
  

• pkgs.k8s.io package signing key (0x234654DA9A296436) is about to expire on 2026-12-29

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  kubernetes/release#4552 · Filter by author sstrk opened on Oct 7, 2026
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• kube-cross: move off Debian bullseye (EOL 2026-08-31)

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  kubernetes/release#4522 · Filter by author cpanato opened on Sep 8, 2026
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• debian-base: add perl-base to the purge list (19 findings, 16 with no fix available)

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  kubernetes/release#4511 · Filter by author chris-altamimi opened on Aug 31, 2026

• krel release-notes validate rejects the NONE release-note sentinel as a punctuation error

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  kubernetes/release#4490 · Filter by author chadmcrowell opened on Aug 12, 2026
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• Change kubelet.service permissions to satisfy CIS benchmark

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  kubernetes/release#4479 · Filter by author willemm opened on Jul 24, 2026
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• krel includes PR with release-note-none when a release notes map file exists

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  kubernetes/release#4456 · Filter by author yashasvimisra2798 opened on Jul 8, 2026

• Dependency update - Golang 1.26.5/1.25.12

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  kubernetes/release#4449 · Filter by author palnabarun opened on Jul 6, 2026
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• Consider dropping iptables dependency in kubelet package

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  kubernetes/release#4434 · Filter by author hegerdes opened on Jun 13, 2026
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• Make QEMU version and flags configurable in image build Makefiles

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  kubernetes/release#4417 · Filter by author xuxiaowei-com-cn opened on May 31, 2026
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• Add LoongArch (loong64) architecture support across the Kubernetes release engineering tooling

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  kubernetes/release#4415 · Filter by author xuxiaowei-com-cn opened on May 27, 2026
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• Dependency update - Golang 1.27

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  kubernetes/release#4410 · Filter by author liggitt opened on May 19, 2026
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• krel release-notes skips PRs under RC fast-forward sync merges (v1.34/v1.35/v1.36-rc.1 regression)

  area/release-engkind/bugneeds-prioritysig/release
  kubernetes/release#4381 · Filter by author singh1203 opened on Apr 18, 2026
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• kubectl .deb releases do not register shell completion on install

  area/release-engkind/featurelifecycle/frozenneeds-prioritysig/release
  kubernetes/release#4380 · Filter by author ubermidget2 opened on Apr 17, 2026
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• Add --rerun mode to krel release-notes for updating existing draft PR branches

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  kubernetes/release#4348 · Filter by author kernel-kun opened on Mar 28, 2026
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• base images without go-runner

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  kubernetes/release#4270 · Filter by author BenTheElder opened on Feb 11, 2026
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• Dependency update - Golang 1.26

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  kubernetes/release#4266 · Filter by author cpanato opened on Feb 11, 2026
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• krel sign blobs: Don't resign artifacts on reruns

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  kubernetes/release#4221 · Filter by author puerco opened on Dec 17, 2025
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• Update Docker across kubernetes/test-infra CI

  kind/cleanuplifecycle/rottenpriority/important-longterm
  kubernetes/release#4184 · Filter by author saschagrunert opened on Nov 13, 2025
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• Consider discontinuing the kubernetes-cni package

  area/release-engkind/deprecationpriority/important-soonsig/release
  kubernetes/release#4156 · Filter by author xmudrii opened on Oct 9, 2025 · v1.38
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• Support non-tag based krel release-notes workflow

  area/release-engkind/featurelifecycle/frozenneeds-prioritysig/release
  kubernetes/release#4126 · Filter by author Vyom-Yadav opened on Sep 16, 2025
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• krel does not support review-update PR workflow

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  kubernetes/release#4121 · Filter by author Vyom-Yadav opened on Sep 14, 2025
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• Krel is unreliable on Windows

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  kubernetes/release#4110 · Filter by author katcosgrove opened on Sep 8, 2025
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• Obsolete cached InRelease file is returned by Cloudfront when using URL-encoded colons (%3a instead of :) in path

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  kubernetes/release#3993 · Filter by author njoyneer opened on Apr 24, 2025
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