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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.

The OpenTelemetry Profiling SIG has promoted its Profiles signal to public alpha, adding vendor-neutral continuous profiling alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Built on Elastic's donated eBPF agent, the new signal supports over a dozen language runtimes with minimal overhead.

Broadcom has contributed Velero, the Kubernetes-native backup and disaster recovery tool with 9,900 GitHub stars, to the CNCF Sandbox after the Technical Oversight Committee approved the proposal filed in February 2026.

The CNCF incubating project ships runtime threat detection powered by CEL-based rules, a centralized security metadata store, and the first open-source controls for auditing AI agent configurations in Kubernetes clusters.

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee has voted to accept Tekton, the Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework with 600-plus contributors and 11,000 GitHub stars, ending its tenure as a CD Foundation graduated project.