v1.35.7+k3s1

Warning

This release upgrades Traefik chart to v40.x which includes a breaking change for the ingress-nginx migration: the provider name changes from kubernetesIngressNginx to kubernetesIngressNGINX. Check https://github.com/traefik/traefik-helm-chart/releases/tag/v40.0.0 for more details

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.35.7, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.35.6+k3s1:

• July Testing Backports (#14329)
• July K3s Build Rework + GHA bumps (#14333)
• Backports for 2026-07 (#14370)
• Bump mirrored-pause to 3.10.2 (#14390)
• Bump Traefik to v3.7.7 (#14380)
• More backports for 2026-07 (#14407)
• Fix typo in snapshot prune event (#14412)
• Bump rancher/mirrored-coredns-coredns image version (#14421)
• Bump golang:alpine image version (#14431)
• Bump rancher/mirrored-metrics-server image version (#14439)
• Use new Traefik v3.7.8 (#14425)
• Bump helm-controller and klipper-helm for --force-conflicts support (#14443)
• Bump k3s-io/kubernetes and Go references (#14455)
• Bump etcd to v3.6.14 (#14462)
• Fix production builds always enabling Go coverage instrumentation (#14467)
• Bump helm-controller and klipper-helm (#14476)

Embedded Component Versions

Component	Version
Kubernetes	v1.35.7
Kine	v0.16.3
SQLite	3.53.2
Etcd	v3.6.14-k3s1
Containerd	v2.2.5-k3s2
Runc	v1.4.2
Flannel	v0.28.4
Metrics-server	v0.9.0
Traefik	v3.7.8
CoreDNS	v1.14.6
Helm-controller	v0.17.7
Local-path-provisioner	v0.0.36

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