Release notes
One entry per version, newest first, answering one question: what a cluster already running the version before it has to change before it moves.
This is not a commit log. What a release publishes and how to verify it before you install it is Releases and provenance. What the API holds to between versions, and what it does not, is API compatibility.
Before v1 there are no deprecations: a field that has to go, goes, in the
release that says so, and this is where it is said. A version that asks
nothing of you says so in as many words, rather than leaving you to read it
out of silence.
Before you upgrade. There is no earlier published release to upgrade from. This version is under development. The build is being stabilized before publication.
The source acceptance matrix covers Kubernetes 1.35, 1.36, and 1.37. Publication
still has to prove the signed image and chart digests, anonymous image access,
and the immutable release transaction against the shipped bytes. The
production qualification record
remains open: the lab-20 profile is not assessed, and it excludes database
restore/RTO and production capacity/soak qualification. Follow the
release preparation checks before
creating the tag.
Installing it is Install, and the database privileges it needs before the first schema converges are Databases and privileges.