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Rootless Kubernetes finally reaches beta, eight years after the first experiment

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. Kubelet, the container runtime, CNI plugins and kube-proxy can now all run as an unprivileged user on the host.

Sep 8, 2026 · Tomás Vega Platform engineering

Kubernetes 1.37 beta lands a StatefulSet Recreate strategy and CRI pod checkpoint RPCs

The 1.37.0-beta.0 release adds a Recreate update strategy for StatefulSets, promotes PLEGOnDemandRelist and metrics.k8s.io to v1, and pushes pod checkpoint and restore into the CRI interface. A 1.36.3 patch shipping in the same window catches a kubelet memory-leak regression that first landed in 1.36.

Jul 31, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo