This release is a quick follow-up to v0.21.0 with bug fixes including not overriding the host's binfmt_misc (a regression in v0.20.0, see: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/3510).

Breaking Changes

• The default node image is now Kubernetes 1.29.2: kindest/node:v1.29.2@sha256:51a1434a5397193442f0be2a297b488b6c919ce8a3931be0ce822606ea5ca245

If you haven't already, please see also v0.21.0 release notes given the short time between releases.

New Features

• Remove exclude-from-external-load-balancers from single node clusters https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/3506
• Support for building node images on hosts with proxies

Images pre-built for this release:

• v1.29.2: kindest/node:v1.29.2@sha256:51a1434a5397193442f0be2a297b488b6c919ce8a3931be0ce822606ea5ca245
• v1.29.1: kindest/node:v1.29.1@sha256:0c06baa545c3bb3fbd4828eb49b8b805f6788e18ce67bff34706ffa91866558b
• v1.28.7: kindest/node:v1.28.7@sha256:9bc6c451a289cf96ad0bbaf33d416901de6fd632415b076ab05f5fa7e4f65c58
• v1.28.6: kindest/node:v1.28.6@sha256:e9e59d321795595d0eed0de48ef9fbda50388dc8bd4a9b23fb9bd869f370ec7e
• v1.27.11: kindest/node:v1.27.11@sha256:681253009e68069b8e01aad36a1e0fa8cf18bb0ab3e5c4069b2e65cafdd70843
• v1.27.10: kindest/node:v1.27.10@sha256:e6b2f72f22a4de7b957cd5541e519a8bef3bae7261dd30c6df34cd9bdd3f8476
• v1.26.14: kindest/node:v1.26.14@sha256:5d548739ddef37b9318c70cb977f57bf3e5015e4552be4e27e57280a8cbb8e4f
• v1.26.13: kindest/node:v1.26.13@sha256:8cb4239d64ff897e0c21ad19fe1d68c3422d4f3c1c1a734b7ab9ccc76c549605
• v1.25.16: kindest/node:v1.25.16@sha256:e8b50f8e06b44bb65a93678a65a26248fae585b3d3c2a669e5ca6c90c69dc519
• v1.24.17: kindest/node:v1.24.17@sha256:bad10f9b98d54586cba05a7eaa1b61c6b90bfc4ee174fdc43a7b75ca75c95e51
• v1.23.17: kindest/node:v1.23.17@sha256:14d0a9a892b943866d7e6be119a06871291c517d279aedb816a4b4bc0ec0a5b3

NOTE: You must use the @sha256 digest to guarantee an image built for this release, until such a time as we switch to a different tagging scheme. Even then we will highly encourage digest pinning for security and reproducibility reasons.

See also:

• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#creating-a-cluster
• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#building-images

NOTE: These node images support amd64 and arm64, both of our supported platforms. You must use the same platform as your host, for more context see https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/2718

Fixes

• binfmt_misc no longer set by node images (regression in v0.20.0)
• fix runc hooks when non-root / usernamespaces
• Support multiple random extraPortMappings
• Docs fixes for contour and WSL2

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! ❤️

Users whose commits are in this release (alphabetically by user name)

• @BenTheElder
• @dependabot[bot]
• @dgl
• @howardjohn
• @k8s-ci-robot
• @r-suke
• @skriss
• @wouterh-dev
• @Zumium

Thank you as well to everyone else not listed here who contributed in other ways like filing issues, giving feedback, testing fixes, and helping users in slack!