v0.16.0 is a quick release centered around shipping Kubernetes v1.25.2 fixes by default. Additional fixes and features are listed below.

Breaking Changes

• The default node image is a Kubernetes v1.25.2 image: kindest/node:v1.25.2@sha256:9be91e9e9cdf116809841fc77ebdb8845443c4c72fe5218f3ae9eb57fdb4bace
• kind no longer attempts misguided symlink /dev/kmsg to /dev/console when /dev/kmsg is missing. please ensure your host has /dev/kmsg https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/662#issuecomment-1238911235
• Kubernetes v1.15.X and lower are no longer supported, as warned in KIND v0.15.0

New Features

• open-iscsi / support for iSCSI volumes
• containerd 1.6.8
• crictl 1.25.0
• go 1.19.1

New Node images have been built for kind v0.16.0, please use these exact images (IE like kindest/node:v1.25.2@sha256:9be91e9e9cdf116809841fc77ebdb8845443c4c72fe5218f3ae9eb57fdb4bace including the digest) or build your own as we may need to change the image format again in the future :sweat_smile:

Images built for this release:

• 1.25: kindest/node:v1.25.2@sha256:9be91e9e9cdf116809841fc77ebdb8845443c4c72fe5218f3ae9eb57fdb4bace
• 1.24: kindest/node:v1.24.6@sha256:97e8d00bc37a7598a0b32d1fabd155a96355c49fa0d4d4790aab0f161bf31be1
• 1.23: kindest/node:v1.23.12@sha256:9402cf1330bbd3a0d097d2033fa489b2abe40d479cc5ef47d0b6a6960613148a
• 1.22: kindest/node:v1.22.15@sha256:bfd5eaae36849bfb3c1e3b9442f3da17d730718248939d9d547e86bbac5da586
• 1.21: kindest/node:v1.21.14@sha256:ad5b7446dd8332439f22a1efdac73670f0da158c00f0a70b45716e7ef3fae20b
• 1.20: kindest/node:v1.20.15@sha256:45d0194a8069c46483a0e509088ab9249302af561ebee76a1281a1f08ecb4ed3
• 1.19: kindest/node:v1.19.16@sha256:a146f9819fece706b337d34125bbd5cb8ae4d25558427bf2fa3ee8ad231236f2

NOTE: These node images support amd64 and arm64. It remains possible to build custom images for other architectures (see the docs).

Fixes

• Fix for detecting new podman network overlap errors
• Updated metallb docs to current

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! ❤️

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

• @benmoss
• @BenTheElder
• @bornaivankovic
• @fedepaol
• @fukuta-tatsuya-intec
• @k8s-ci-robot

And thank you very much to everyone else not listed here who contributed in other ways like filing issues, giving feedback, testing fixes, helping users in slack, etc. 🙏