Kubernetes v1.34 Release Announcement Blog #51877

aibarbetta · 2025-08-11T00:13:32Z

The following sections are pending:

Release name
Release theme and logo
Release Team
Release webinar date, time, and event link

aibarbetta · 2025-08-11T00:20:35Z

CC Comms Team @88abb @cloudmelon @dipesh-rawat @graz-dev

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Serenity611

Initial pass for proofreading, made some suggestions for consistent formatting/treatment of terms across sections.

Please let me know if you have questions, or if I suggested anything that we wouldn't change--I'm still learning, feedback/education is very welcome! :)

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lmktfy

Folks, this doesn't look ready to merge. Consider labelling it as a work in progress.

It's impressive but I can also see many things that I think we must fix before we merge this as a draft; see inline feedback.

For people who use Kubernetes, what's the most relevant improvement in the v1.34 minor release? We should make that really clear.

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Vyom-Yadav

Just skimmed through the stable portion

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aibarbetta

Move KYAML to spotlight

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SergeyKanzhelev · 2025-08-14T19:48:12Z

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+This work was done as part of [KEP \#5295](https://kep.k8s.io/5295) led by SIG CLI.
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+### \<Stable/Beta/Alpha\>: \<THEME 4\>


one thing in 1.34 that may be breaking customer is the static pod are not allowed to have API objects: kubernetes/kubernetes#131837

This is a change of behavior that may require to change static pod definition and deserves to be highlighted.

cc: @BenTheElder

Yes, there was an attempt to promote this to Action Require in the release notes, though I'm not sure if that happened in the release notes yet either.

kubernetes/kubernetes#131837 (comment)

I think we should mention this and make it clear that it's safe to drop these references because they would've been non-functional previously, static pods could not use references before this change, they were just silently ignored and the mirror pod failed to be created.

I'm not sure we have a place for changes like this in the Release Announcement 🤔 I would make sure this is covered properly in the release notes.

SergeyKanzhelev · 2025-08-14T19:52:46Z

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+This work was done as part of [KEP \#4802](https://kep.k8s.io/4802) led by SIG Windows.
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+### In-place Pod resize improvements


cc @tallclair to review

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lmktfy

If only one of these suggestions could land, I hope it'd be the one about the change to Pod security standards.

We don't have Pod security policies any more and should be wary of using "policy" in this context.

With all these rewordings, the specific wording isn't what's important. You can choose your own words—but what I do want is for the co-editors to work backwards from the suggested text to figure out what wasn't right about the original.

Any different new wording should try to ensure it fixes the concerns the blog team might have (about the previous text).

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soltysh

lgtm the changes

graz-dev

/lgtm

I'm happy to merge it as a draft.
We can always open a small PR to add the missing details (logo, webinar link...) and further SIGs reviews and adjustments if needed.

cc @lmktfy

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lmktfy

I confirmed this will merge as a draft!

/lgtm
/approve

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		This work was done as part of [KEP \#5295](https://kep.k8s.io/5295) led by SIG CLI.

		### \<Stable/Beta/Alpha\>: \<THEME 4\>


		This work was done as part of [KEP \#4802](https://kep.k8s.io/4802) led by SIG Windows.

		### In-place Pod resize improvements

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