Sep 12, 2025 — LKE updates

This includes updated GPU drivers, upgrades to Kubernetes versions, CoreDNS, the Linode Cloud Controller Manager (CCM), and the Linode Block Storage CSI driver.

Changed

  • Cluster control planes have been upgraded to the following Kubernetes versions:
  • The NVIDIA GPU driver has been upgraded from the 535.x series to the 580.x series.
  • Versions for the following drivers have also been upgraded:
    • Linode CCM (linode-cloud-controller-manager) has been upgraded from v0.9.0 to v0.9.1
    • Linode Block Storage CSI driver has been upgraded from v1.0.8 to v1.0.9
    • CoreDNS has been upgraded from 1.12.2 to 1.12.3
  • The labels for NodeBalancers created through LKE have been adjusted. They are now prefixed with lke${CLUSTER_ID}- (where ${CLUSTER_ID} is the ID of the cluster) instead of ccm-.