Release notes for kOps 1.32 series

kOps 1.32 is a smaller release without significant additional features beyond updated support for kubernetes 1.32 and associated ecosystem updates. Significant kOps features will instead target kOps 1.33.

Significant changes

Kubernetes minor version upgrades to 1.31 or later should be performed using the `kops reconcile cluster command.

• Kubernetes 1.31 introduced stricter checks around the version-skew policy. While kOps has always followed the version-skew policy, there was an edge case: nodes that were added by an autoscaler during a rolling-update would not always follow the version-skew policy. We recommend trying the new kops reconcile command, see docs/tutorial/upgrading-kubernetes.md for more details. The kops reconcile functionality was introduced in kOps 1.32.

• flannel is no longer planned to be removed and has been updated to v0.26.4.

Deprecations

• Support for Kubernetes version 1.26 is removed in kOps 1.32.

• Support for Kubernetes version 1.27 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.33.