This release includes updates to Kubernetes versions, updates to components, and a change to how resources are allocated for system daemons.

Changed

• Some node resources are now reserved for system daemons (kube-reserved). To improve the stability of your LKE clusters, a small amount of memory and vCPU millicores on each node are reserved for system daemons. This should not negatively affect the performance of your workloads. If you tightly pack your apps on your cluster with no headroom, the scheduler may not be able to run all of your apps and you may need to scale up the nodes in your node pool. This applies to clusters created on or after April 21, 2026 and affects all Kubernetes versions on LKE clusters and v1.32 on LKE Enterprise clusters. Existing clusters created before that date are not affected.
• Cluster control planes have been updated to the following Kubernetes versions:
  • v1.33 has been updated from 1.33.10 to 1.33.11
  • v1.34 has been updated from 1.34.6 to 1.34.7
  • v1.35 has been updated from 1.35.3 to 1.35.4
• CoreDNS has been upgraded from 1.13.1 to 1.14.2
• Linode Block Storage CSI driver has been updated from v1.1.1 to v1.1.2