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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.

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.

Google Cloud Run Worker Pools hit general availability on April 14, 2026, shipping with Blackwell GPU support and CREMA, an open-source KEDA-based autoscaler for queue-driven workloads.

Former bitcoin miner IREN will pay $625 million in shares for Mirantis, the long-standing OpenStack and Kubernetes vendor behind the k0rdent platform, layering enterprise infrastructure software on top of its 2 GW Sweetwater AI campus.

Amazon's new managed gateway eliminates the need to make on-premises pod CIDRs routable from a VPC, using leader-elected EC2 nodes, VXLAN tunnels, and Cilium VTEP entries to bridge cloud and on-prem Kubernetes traffic.

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.

Oracle has made the Karpenter Provider for OCI generally available, giving OKE users a more flexible way to scale Kubernetes worker nodes.

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.

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.

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.