v1.35.X

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Version Release date Kubernetes Kine SQLite Etcd Containerd Runc Flannel Metrics-server Traefik CoreDNS Helm-controller Local-path-provisioner

v1.35.2+k3s1

Mar 04 2026

v1.35.2

v0.14.12

3.51.2

v3.6.7-k3s1

v2.1.5-k3s1

v1.4.0

v0.28.0

v0.8.1

v3.6.9

v1.14.1

v0.16.17

v0.0.34

v1.35.1+k3s1

Feb 12 2026

v1.35.1

v0.14.11

3.51.1

v3.6.7-k3s1

v2.1.5-k3s1

v1.4.0

v0.28.0

v0.8.1

v3.6.7

v1.14.1

v0.16.17

v0.0.34

v1.35.0+k3s3

Feb 03 2026

v1.35.0

v0.14.10

3.51.1

v3.6.7-k3s1

v2.1.5-k3s1

v1.4.0

v0.28.0

v0.8.0

v3.6.7

v1.14.0

v0.16.17

v0.0.34

v1.35.0+k3s1

Dec 23 2025

v1.35.0

v0.14.9

3.50.4

v3.6.6-k3s1

v2.1.5-k3s1

v1.4.0

v0.27.4

v0.8.0

v3.5.1

v1.13.1

v0.16.17

v0.0.32

Release v1.35.2+k3s1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.35.2, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what’s new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.35.1+k3s1:

  • Rootlesskit Revert + Test Fixes (#13689)

  • Backports for 2026-02 BONUS RELEASE (#13690)

  • Bump Traefik to v3.6.9 (#13703)

  • Update to v1.35.2-k3s1 and Go 1.25.7 (#13707)


Release v1.35.1+k3s1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.35.1, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what’s new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.35.0+k3s3:

  • Bulk Backports 2026-02 (#13564)

  • Explicitly close mvcc backend to fix high CPU on initial etcd server after restart (#13570)

  • Backports for 2026-02 (#13580)

  • Bump kine for list/watch revision fixes (#13576)

  • Fix VPN node IP not being applied to kubelet (#13560)

    • Bump to coredns 1.14.1 and metrics-server v0.8.1 (#13608)

  • Add registry prefix to image-list file (#13602)

  • Bump klipper-helm and klipper-lb images (#13619)

  • Fix removal of init node (#13630)

  • Update to v1.35.1-k3s1 and Go 1.25.6 (#13637)


Release v1.35.0+k3s3

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.35.0, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what’s new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.35.0+k3s1:

  • Add firewall section to check-config.sh (#13390)

  • Expand docker upgrade test, sunset E2E upgrade test (#13398)

  • Allow k3s secrets-encrypt enable on existing clusters (#13403)

  • Chore: Bump charts - Jan 2025 (#13420)

  • Bump local path provisioner to v0.0.34 (#13426)

  • Backports for 2026-01 (#13446)

  • Bump to coredns 1.14.0 (#13451)

  • Update Traefik version to v3.6.7 (#13484)

  • Bump etcd to v3.6.7 (#13497)

  • Update to v1.35.0-k3s3 (#13523)

  • Fix restart of control-plane-only nodes attempting to reconcile from local datastore (#13535)


Release v1.35.0+k3s1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.35.0, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what’s new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.34.2+k3s1:

  • Add id-token (#13209)

  • Fix windows build os (#13201)

  • Tunnel: handle pod IP reuse (#13212)

    • Fix for clusters with few nodes and a lot of pod churn when webhooks are accessed using egress-selector

  • Add multus e2e test (#13216)

  • Fix spegel sharing of imported images (#13221)

  • Bump opencontainers/selinux (#13253)

  • Update channels to 1.33.6 (#13246)

  • Remove remaining references to drone (#13254)

  • Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 (#13256)

  • Update busybox image version to 1.37.0 (#13237)

  • Update kube-router to v2.6.2 (#13280)

  • Consolidate test util functions (#13281)

  • Define DefaultHelmJobImage in K3s, overriding what helm-controller defaults to. (#13258)

  • Reorganize Executor interface to make CNI startup part of Executor implementation (#13262)

  • Bump kine and etcd (#13297)

  • Bump runc to v1.4.0 (#13298)

  • Bump kine to v0.14.8 (#13303)

  • Bump kube-router to v2.6.3-k3s1 (#13304)

  • Fix cross-platform image save (#13311)

  • Update to v1.34.3-k3s1 and Go 1.24.11 (#13308)

  • Bump kine to v0.14.9 (#13314)

  • Override DefaultHelmJob at build time (#13351)

  • Fix arm airgap platforms (#13330)

  • Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6 (#13348)

  • Update to kubernetes v1.35.0 and golang v1.25.5 (#13334)