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Linkerd 2.20 refactors the CNCF service mesh's destination controller, cutting control plane memory use by almost 85 percent and adding rate-limit-aware load balancing.

Kyverno 1.18 patches two flaws in its HTTP-based policy execution, blocks loopback and metadata addresses by default, and flags ClusterPolicy for deprecation later this year.

A CNCF and SlashData report released at KubeCon India puts India at 2.25 million cloud native developers, about 11 percent of the 20 million worldwide.

SIG-etcd released v3.4.45 alongside v3.5.31 and v3.6.12, marking the end of support for the v3.4 series and pushing remaining users to upgrade.

The CNCF announced OpenTelemetry's graduation on May 21, capping seven years of development and a merger of two rival projects into a unified observability standard with 12,000+ contributors.

OpenTofu v1.12.0 lands with variable-driven prevent_destroy, a destroy=false lifecycle flag, and dual output modes — features the Terraform tracker left open since 2016.

SIG-etcd has released the first beta of etcd 3.7.0, introducing streaming reads for large result sets, up to 2x faster lease operations, and the complete elimination of all v2 API code.

Kubernetes v1.36, releasing April 22, brings accelerated SELinux volume labelling to GA, expands Dynamic Resource Allocation for AI hardware, and permanently removes the insecure gitRepo volume driver.

The CNCF expanded its Kubernetes AI Conformance program from 18 to 31 certified platforms while introducing new requirements for disaggregated inference, high-performance networking, and agentic workload support.

Etsy has finished migrating its proprietary 1,000-shard MySQL infrastructure to Vitess after five years, 2,500 pull requests, and 6,000 query rewrites, eliminating a single point of failure while preserving its existing data layout through custom vindexes.

The CNCF incubating project's latest release adds a multi-hypervisor backend, Intel TDX attestation for confidential computing, and PCIe NUMA topology awareness for AI workloads, while scaling its test framework to 8,000 virtual machines.

SIG Network ships the stable release of its migration tool two weeks before Ingress-NGINX was archived, expanding annotation coverage tenfold and introducing behavioral equivalence testing against live clusters.