k0rdent 1.3 Release Notes#

Release date: 2025-08-28

Components Versions#

Provider Name	Version
Cluster API	v1.10.4
Cluster API Provider AWS	v2.8.4
Cluster API Provider Azure	v1.20.2
Cluster API Provider Docker	v1.9.6
Cluster API Provider GCP	v1.10.0
Cluster API Provider Infoblox	v0.1.0-alpha.8
Cluster API Provider IPAM	v1.0.2
Cluster API Provider k0smotron	v1.6.2
Cluster API Provider OpenStack (ORC)	v0.12.4 (v2.1.0)
Cluster API Provider vSphere	v1.13.1
Projectsveltos	v0.57.2

Highlights#

k0rdent Cluster Manager (KCM):
- Telemetry Collection
- Support to customize the default Helm install or upgrade timeout
ServiceSet API & Sveltos provider (KSM):
- New abstraction for managing services with explicit dependencies and ordered upgrades. Enables smoother rollouts and future multi-provider support.
Observability (KOF):
- New kube-state-metrics dashboards for k0rdent CRDs and alerting.
- "Raw metrics" tab in the UI for collectors/logs.
- Promxy tuned for heavy queries to avoid OOMs.
Platform & Dependency Updates:
- k0smotron upgraded to v1.6.2
- Cluster API Azure provider upgraded to v1.20.2
- Go toolchain moved to 1.24.6, with Helm and testing libraries updated.
Stability & UX:
- Multiple fixes to credential propagation, service status collection, hosted cluster templates, Helm repos, and cloud provider templates (OpenStack, Azure).

Upgrade Notes#

KOF:
- Please apply the "Reconciling MultiClusterService" workaround.
Providers:
- Align pinned dependencies with new versions (k0smotron 1.6.2, CAPI Azure 1.20.2).
- Build/test environments should use Go 1.24.6.
Observability:
- After upgrading KOF, apply the new dashboards and validate Promxy resource settings against your workload size.
KSM/KCM APIs:
- The new ServiceSet API is additive. Existing Sveltos configurations continue to work, but you should begin testing with ServiceSets for future upgrades.

Changelog#

New Features#

a8c97a6: feat: kube-state-metrics dashboards for k0rdent objects (#497) by @gmlexx
bdb9707: feat: child telemetry tracker (#1783) by @zerospiel
1355a18: feat: expose services.policyRef in CD and MCS spec (#1725) by @wahabmk
82d3e06: feat: introduce local telemetry collector (#1845) by @zerospiel
f5fe7bb: feat: provider-agnostic KSM with built-in provider (#1670) by @BROngineer
b15d226: feat: telemetry local storage configuration (#1857) by @zerospiel
acb9120: feat: add http config for adopted regional cluster by @gmlexx
93d1064: feat: add backend for internal observability of VictoriaMetrics/Logs (#463) by @AndrejsPon00
6958133: feat: add VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs observability page to KOF UI (#480) by @AndrejsPon00
1fa557d: feat: allow full vm custom objects specs definition in values (#478) by @gmlexx
6978d1c: feat: add tooltip for metrics description in KOF UI (#483) by @AndrejsPon00
370da8f: feat: update helm charts on storage secret change (#484) by @gmlexx
838f53a: feat: add raw metrics tab in KOF UI (#487) by @AndrejsPon00
1131315: feat: add custom resources to kube-state-metrics (#489) by @gmlexx
7832d51: feat: mothership components monitoring (#342) by @aglarendil
6df9757: feat: add misconfiguration check for collector scrape in KOF UI (#490) by @AndrejsPon00

Notable Fixes#

9107ce6: fix: prevent duplicate metric collection (#488) by @AndrejsPon00
d61ff20: fix: Mount CA cert as a volume to flux components (#1844) by @eromanova
e11fe9e: fix: Mount CA secret to flux before installing kcm-templates (#1847) by @eromanova
efb50cd: fix: add default storage class for openstack standalone templates (#1871) by @bnallapeta
6a2ae2e: fix: allow configuration of the default HelmRelease timeout (#1830) by @eromanova
fe394a8: fix: continue e2e tests after deployment failure (#1840) by @eromanova
cfcd997: fix: credentials propagation (#1886) by @BROngineer
44c9e2e: fix: drop subpath from the registry in hosted helm repositories (#1890) by @eromanova
76e1c79: fix: install yq before generating release.yaml (#1894) by @eromanova
2322cbe: fix: k0s image url for azure-hosted-cp (#1856) by @a13x5
6e49c90: fix: multiclusterservice requeue (#1899) by @BROngineer
97af4ed: fix: redundant servicetemplates fetching (#1832) by @zerospiel
f1930e2: fix: remote-cluster (hosted) respects useSudo (#1880) by @zerospiel
103b439: fix: service statuses (#1888) by @BROngineer
55d963e: fix: services deployed & clusters matched in MCS kubectl output (#1779) by @wahabmk
af5feae: fix: set kcm version in release.yaml before making the release (#1877) by @eromanova
cfba650: fix: change opencost prometheus URL to HTTP for local cluster (#451) by @AndrejsPon00
7ba9801: fix: correct instrumentation exporter endpoint to resolve trace export error (#452) by @AndrejsPon00
1dc8a60: fix: Replacing release notes with auto-generated ones, updated docs/release (#453) by @denis-ryzhkov
64b6f5b: fix: slow KOF UI responses due to long proxy timeout (#448) by @AndrejsPon00
f49b35a: fix: Customized cert-manager-startupapicheck image registry (#457) by @denis-ryzhkov
d15e1cb: fix: promxy server group doesn't update after http client config changes (#456) by @AndrejsPon00
ad3bec4: fix: increase promxy memory requests/limits to prevent OOM (#458) by @AndrejsPon00
2c3d50a: fix: move grafana operator to kof-operators helm chart (#461) by @gmlexx
ada76b5: fix: Jaeger authenticated endpoint of regional cluster became available for other clusters (#462) by @denis-ryzhkov
3437957: fix: istio/gateway chart repo compatibility with custom registry (#464) by @denis-ryzhkov
588682e: fix: add promxy suffix to promxy labels by @gmlexx
f3dbad0: fix: add missing env variable for goreleaser (#466) by @gmlexx
6ea8e64: fix: Added ServiceTemplateChain cert-manager-v1-16-4-from-1-16-4 required for upgrade to KOF 1.2.0 (#467) by @denis-ryzhkov
52b9658: fix: override only defined properties with annotation on config update (#468) by @gmlexx
4353a1e: fix: Custom kcm.serviceMonitor.selector (#472) by @denis-ryzhkov
2d6104b: fix: "Cluster Deployments Events" dashboard vs "From Management to Regional" case (#469) by @denis-ryzhkov
5f6f3dd: fix: Custom registryCredentialsConfig in helmCharts of kof-istio (#473) by @denis-ryzhkov
f9ad1e9: fix: use node name in node exporter dashboards (#470) by @gmlexx
75f174b: fix: Two cases of chartName for cert-manager in kof-istio-network by @denis-ryzhkov
eb8d43f: fix: Moved kof-operators to be installed before kof-storage in kof-istio-regional to avoid "CRDs not found" by @denis-ryzhkov
06a137d: fix: Updated Jaeger secret name after movingit from kof-storage to kof-mothership in #462 to avoid invalid ownership metadata by @denis-ryzhkov
48504e1: fix: ContainerHighMemUsage alert has container label missing (#477) by @aglarendil
a1ce5b9: fix: Typo in intervalFactor lead to 500 in "Istio Service Dashboard" (#479) by @denis-ryzhkov
3154164: fix: incorrect log level parsing for uppercase codes (#481) by @AndrejsPon00
c0098ec: fix: correctly parse and render total metric values and labels (not just last label) in kof UI (#486) by @AndrejsPon00
b63188f: fix: prevent OOM crash in promxy on large queries (#491) by @AndrejsPon00
93599c1: fix: correct memory queries in Grafana dashboard panels (#494) by @AndrejsPon00

Notable Changes#

13e3720: chore: KOF 1.3.0 release (#499) by @denis-ryzhkov
b3e2247: fix(os-tpls): correct identity name in identityref (#1901) by @zerospiel
608b448: refactor: small change to reuse already defined statemanagementprovider name (#1883) by @wahabmk
d3cc733: chore: setup go based on go.mod file by @gmlexx
fbd2d4a: chore: apply coredns patch for mothership and restart once by @gmlexx
7867e05: chore: add promxy port-forward target by @gmlexx
c62848b: test: check promxy metrics by @gmlexx
36154db: chore: add charts and docker images build (#465) by @gmlexx
29f0a2b: test: wait until vmauth creates ingress in kind-adopted-regional cluster (#471) by @gmlexx
1885064: chore: KOF 1.2.1 patch release by @denis-ryzhkov
c106d22: test: add unit tests for Victoria pages (KOF UI) (#482) by @AndrejsPon00
1ac30b6: chore: KOF KOF 1.3.0-rc1 (#496) by @denis-ryzhkov

Known Issues#

No critical issues reported at release. Track GitHub issues for updates.

Contributors#

Thank you to everyone who contributed PRs, issues, and testing for this release, including (but certainly not limited to) @zerospiel, @BROngineer, @eromanova, @denis-ryzhkov, @a13x5, @wahabmk, and @bnallapeta.