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Kubernetes 1.37 turns native histograms on by default for its own metrics

The Prometheus native-histogram format graduates to beta in Kubernetes 1.37 and ships enabled by default, promising smaller time-series and sharper latency percentiles for the metrics the control plane already emits.

Sep 12, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Runners & infrastructure

Kubernetes 1.37 promotes gang scheduling to a first-class Workload API in beta

Kubernetes v1.37 graduates the Workload and PodGroup APIs, Workload-Aware Preemption, and shared DRA ResourceClaims to beta, moving all-or-nothing scheduling out of third-party operators. A new CompositePodGroup API lands in alpha for hierarchical training topologies.

Sep 12, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Kubernetes

Kubernetes v1.37 Garhwal ships with 67 enhancements

Kubernetes v1.37, code-named Garhwal, is out with 67 enhancements: 16 GA, 23 Beta, 27 Alpha and one deprecation. The headline items land in scheduling, storage, autoscaling and cluster identity.

Sep 9, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

The Kubernetes v1.37 sneak peek gives you three deprecations to diary now

The release team's preview for v1.37 flags a three-release deprecation clock on kube-proxy ipvs mode, a rule that Static Pods can no longer reference Secrets or ConfigMaps, and the removal of the --filename flag on kubectl run. It also reprises the still-live cgroup v1 tripwire that stops kubelet from booting.

Aug 3, 2026 · Priya Nair 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 Identity and access

Boundary 1.0 adds RDP session recording, previews AI-agent access controls

HashiCorp shipped Boundary 1.0 with RDP session recording and a preview of work aimed at securing AI-agent access. For teams that route Windows targets through the proxy, session recording lands as an audit point that used to live in ad-hoc tooling.

Jul 7, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

GitLab 19.1 makes AI secret triage GA, and lets admins lock Duo on across an instance

GitLab 19.1 ships with two changes platform teams have to plan a rollout around: a generally available AI pass that scores secret-detection findings, and an always-on availability mode that lets administrators force Duo on for an entire instance or top-level group.

Jun 19, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo