TODO: This document was manually maintained so might be incomplete. The automation effort is tracked in kubernetes/test-infra#5843.
Changes in k8s.io/api
and k8s.io/apimachinery
are mentioned here
because k8s.io/client-go
depends on them.
Breaking Changes:
-
Action required: client-go will no longer have bootstrap (
k8s.io/client-go/tools/bootstrap
) related code. Any reference to it will break. Please redirect all references tok8s.io/bootstrap
instead. (#67356) -
The methods
NewSelfSignedCACert
andNewSignedCert
now usecrypto.Signer
interface instead ofrsa.PrivateKey
for certificate creation. This is done to allow different kind of private keys (for example: ecdsa). (#69329) -
GetScale
andUpdateScale
methods have been added forapps/v1
clients and with this, no-verb scale clients have been removed. (#70437) -
k8s.io/client-go/util/cert/triple
package has been removed. (#70966)
New Features:
-
unfinished_work_microseconds
is added to the workqueue metrics. It can be used to detect stuck worker threads (kube-controller-manager runs many workqueues.). (#70884) -
A method
GetPorts
is added to expose the ports that were forwarded. This can be used to retrieve the locally-bound port in cases where the input was port 0. (#67513) -
Dynamic listers and informers, that work with
runtime.Unstructured
objects, are added. These are useful for writing generic, non-generated controllers. (68748) -
The dynamic fake client now supports JSONPatch. (#69330)
-
The
GetBinding
method is added for pods in the fake client. (#69412)
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
The
apiVersion
and action name values for fake evictions are now set. (#69035) -
PEM files containing both TLS certificate and key can now be parsed in arbitrary order. Previously key was always required to be first. (#69536)
-
Go clients created from a kubeconfig that specifies a
TokenFile
now periodically reload the token from the specified file. (#70606) -
It is now ensured that oversized data frames are not written to spdystreams in
remotecommand.NewSPDYExecutor
. (#70999) -
A panic occuring on calling
scheme.Convert
is fixed by populating the fake dynamic client scheme. (#69125) -
Add step to correctly setup permissions for the in-cluster-client-configuration example. (#69232)
-
The function
Parallelize
is deprecated. UseParallelizeUntil
instead. (#68403) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Restrict redirect following from the apiserver to same-host redirects, and ignore redirects in some cases. (#66516)
New Features:
-
GlusterFS PersistentVolumes sources can now reference endpoints in any namespace using the
spec.glusterfs.endpointsNamespace
field. Ensure all kubelets are upgraded to 1.13+ before using this capability. (#60195) -
The dynamic audit configuration API is added. (#67547)
-
A new field
EnableServiceLinks
is added to thePodSpec
to indicate whether information about services should be injected into pod's environment variables. (#68754) -
CSIPersistentVolume
feature, i.e.PersistentVolumes
withCSIPersistentVolumeSource
, is GA.CSIPersistentVolume
feature gate is now deprecated and will be removed according to deprecation policy. (#69929) -
Raw block volume support is promoted to beta, and enabled by default. This is accessible via the
volumeDevices
container field in pod specs, and thevolumeMode
field in persistent volume and persistent volume claims definitions. (#71167)
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
The default value of extensions/v1beta1 Deployment's
RevisionHistoryLimit
is set toMaxInt32
. (#66605) -
procMount
field is no longer incorrectly marked as required in openapi schema. (#69694) -
The caBundle and service fields in admission webhook API objects now correctly indicate they are optional. (#70138)
Breaking Changes:
-
client-go now supports additional non-alpha-numeric characters in UserInfo "extra" data keys. It should be updated in order to properly support extra data containing "/" characters or other characters disallowed in HTTP headers. Old clients sending keys which were
%
-escaped by the user will have their values unescaped by new API servers. (#65799) -
apimachinery/pkg/watch.Until
has been moved toclient-go/tools/watch.UntilWithoutRetry
. While switching please consider using the newclient-go/tools/watch.UntilWithSync
orclient-go/tools/watch.Until
. (#66906) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery]
Unstructured
metadata accessors now respect omitempty semantics i.e. a field having zero value will now be removed from the unstructured metadata map. (#67635) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] The
ObjectConvertor
interface is now changed such thatConvertFieldLabel
func takes GroupVersionKind as an argument instead of just version and kind. (#65780) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] componentconfig
ClientConnectionConfiguration
is moved tok8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/config
. (#66058) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Renamed
KubeConfigFile
toKubeconfig
inClientConnectionConfiguration
. (#67149) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] JSON patch no longer supports
int
. (#63522)
New Features:
-
Add ability to cancel leader election. This also proves useful in integration tests where the whole app is started and stopped in each test. (#57932)
-
An example showing how to use fake clients in tests is added. (#65291)
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Create and Update now support
CreateOptions
andUpdateOptions
. (#65105)
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
Decrease the amount of time it takes to modify kubeconfig files with large amounts of contexts. (#67093)
-
The leader election client now renews timeout. (#65094)
-
Switched certificate data replacement from
REDACTED
toDATA+OMITTED
. (#66023) -
Fix listing in the fake dynamic client. (#66078)
-
Fix discovery so that plural names are no longer ignored if a singular name is not specified. (#66249)
-
Fix kubelet startup failure when using
ExecPlugin
in kubeconfig. (#66395) -
Fix panic in the fake
SubjectAccessReview
client when object is nil. (#66837) -
Periodically reload
InClusterConfig
token. (#67359) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Report parsing error in json serializer. (#63668)
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] The
metav1.ObjectMeta
accessor does not deepcopy owner references anymore. In general, the accessor interface does not enforce deepcopy nor does it forbid it (e.g. forunstructured.Unstructured
). (#64915) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Utility functions
SetTransportDefaults
andDialerFor
once again respect custom Dial functions set on transports. (#65547) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Speed-up conversion function invocation by avoiding
reflect.Call
. Action required: regenerated conversion with conversion-gen. (#65771) -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Establish "406 Not Acceptable" response for unmarshable protobuf serialization error. (#67041)
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Immediately close the other side of the connection by exiting once one side closes when proxying. (#67288)
Breaking Changes:
-
Volume dynamic provisioning scheduling has been promoted to beta. ACTION REQUIRED: The DynamicProvisioningScheduling alpha feature gate has been removed. The VolumeScheduling beta feature gate is still required for this feature. (#67432)
-
The CSI file system type is no longer defaulted to ext4. All the production drivers listed under https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html were inspected and should not be impacted after this change. If you are using a driver not in that list, please test the drivers on an updated test cluster first. (#65499)
New Features:
-
Support annotations for remote admission webhooks. (#58679)
-
Support both directory and block device for local volume plugin
FileSystem
VolumeMode
. (#63011) -
Introduce
autoscaling/v2beta2
andcustom_metrics/v1beta2
, which implement metric selectors for Object and Pods metrics, as well as allowing AverageValue targets on Objects, similar to External metrics. (#64097) -
Add
Lease
API in thecoordination.k8s.io
API group. (#64246) -
ProcMount
added toSecurityContext
andAllowedProcMounts
added toPodSecurityPolicy
to allow paths in the container's/proc
to not be masked. (#64283) -
Add the
AuditAnnotations
field toImageReviewStatus
to allow theImageReview
backend to return annotations to be added to the created pod. (#64597) -
SCTP is now supported as additional protocol (alpha) alongside TCP and UDP in Pod, Service, Endpoint, and NetworkPolicy. (#64973)
-
The
PodShareProcessNamespace
feature to configure PID namespace sharing within a pod has been promoted to beta. (#66507) -
Add
TTLSecondsAfterFinished
toJobSpec
for cleaning up Jobs after they finish. (#66840) -
Add
DataSource
andTypedLocalObjectReference
fields to support restoring a volume from a volume snapshot data source. (#67087) -
RuntimeClass
is a new API resource for defining different classes of runtimes that may be used to run containers in the cluster. Pods can select aRunitmeClass
to use via theRuntimeClassName
field. This feature is in alpha, and theRuntimeClass
feature gate must be enabled in order to use it. (#67737) -
To address the possibility dry-run requests overwhelming admission webhooks that rely on side effects and a reconciliation mechanism, a new field is being added to
admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
andadmissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.MutatingWebhookConfiguration
so that webhooks can explicitly register as having dry-run support. If a dry-run request is made on a resource that triggers a non dry-run supporting webhook, the request will be completely rejected, with "400: Bad Request". Additionally, a new field is being added to theadmission.k8s.io/v1beta1.AdmissionReview
API object, exposing to webhooks whether or not the request being reviewed is a dry-run. (#66936)
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
The
DisruptedPods
field inPodDisruptionBudgetStatus
is now optional. (#63757) -
extensions/v1beta1
Deployment'sProgressDeadlineSeconds
now defaults toMaxInt32
. (#66581)
Breaking Changes:
-
KUBE_API_VERSIONS
has been removed. -
The client-go/discovery
RESTMapper
has been moved to client-go/restmapper. -
CachedDiscoveryClient
has been moved from kubectl to client-go. -
The
EventRecorder
interface is changed to include anAnnotatedEventf
method, which can add annotations to an event. -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] The deprecated
RepairMalformedUpdates
flag has been removed.
New Features:
-
A new easy-to-use dynamic client is added and the old dynamic client is now deprecated.
-
client-go and kubectl now detect and report an error on duplicated name for user, cluster and context, while loading the kubeconfig.
-
The informer code-generator now allows specifying a custom resync period for certain informer types and uses the default resync period if none is specified.
-
Exec authenticator plugin now supports TLS client certificates.
-
The discovery client now has a default request timeout of 32 seconds.
-
The OpenStack auth config from is now read from the client config. If the client config is not available, it falls back to reading from the environment variables.
-
The in-tree support for openstack credentials is now deprecated. Please use the
client-keystone-auth
from the cloud-provider-openstack repository. Details on how to use this new capability is documented here
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
406 mime-type errors are now tolerated while attempting to load new openapi schema. This improves compatibility with older servers when creating/updating API objects.
-
Removes the generated
DeleteCollection()
method forServices
since the API does not support it. -
Event object references with apiversion now report an apiversion, instead of just the group.
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery]
runtime.Unstructured.UnstructuredContent()
no longer mutates the source while returning the contents. -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Incomplete support for
uint64
is now removed. This fixes a panic encountered while usingDeepCopyJSON
withuint64
. -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] API server can now parse
propagationPolicy
when it sent as a query parameter sent with a delete request. -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] APIServices with kube-like versions (e.g. v1, v2beta1, etc.) will be sorted appropriately within each group.
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery]
int64
is the only allowed integer for printers.
Breaking Changes:
-
Support for
alpha.kubernetes.io/nvidia-gpu
resource which was deprecated in 1.10 is removed. Please use the resource exposed byDevicePlugins
instead (nvidia.com/gpu
). -
Alpha annotation for
PersistentVolume
node affinity has been removed. Update yourPersistentVolume
s to use the betaPersistentVolume.nodeAffinity
field before upgrading. -
ObjectMeta
ListOptions
DeleteOptions
are removed from the core api group. Please use the ones inmeta/v1
instead. -
ExternalID
inNodeSpec
is deprecated. The externalID of the node is no longer set in the Node spec. -
PSP-related types in the
extensions/v1beta1
API group are now deprecated. It is suggested to use thepolicy/v1beta1
API group instead.
New Features:
-
PodSecurityPolicy
now supports restricting hostPath volume mounts to be readOnly and under specific path prefixes. -
Node.Spec.ConfigSource.ConfigMap.KubeletConfigKey
must be specified when using dynamic Kubelet config to tell the Kubelet which key of theConfigMap
identifies its config file. -
serverAddressByClientCIDRs
inmeta/v1
APIGroup is now optional. -
A new field
MatchFields
is added toNodeSelectorTerm
. Currently, it only supportsmetadata.name
. -
The
PriorityClass
API is promoted toscheduling.k8s.io/v1beta1
. -
The status of dynamic Kubelet config is now reported via
Node.Status.Config
, rather than theKubeletConfigOk
node condition. -
The
GitRepo
volume type is deprecated. To provision a container with a git repo, mount anEmptyDir
into anInitContainer
that clones the repo using git, then mount theEmptyDir
into the Pod's container. -
The Sysctls experimental feature has been promoted to beta (enabled by default via the
Sysctls
feature flag).PodSecurityPolicy
andPod
objects now have fields for specifying and controlling sysctls. Alpha sysctl annotations will be ignored by 1.11+ kubelets. All alpha sysctl annotations in existing deployments must be converted to API fields to be effective. -
The annotation
service.alpha.kubernetes.io/tolerate-unready-endpoints
is deprecated. Users should useService.spec.publishNotReadyAddresses
instead. -
VerticalPodAutoscaler
has been added toautoscaling/v1
API group. -
Alpha support is added for dynamic volume limits based on node type.
-
ContainersReady
condition is added to the Pod status.
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
Default mount propagation has changed from
HostToContainer
(rslave
in Linux terminology) toNone
(private
) to match the behavior in 1.9 and earlier releases.HostToContainer
as a default caused regressions in some pods.
Breaking Changes:
-
Google Cloud Service Account email addresses can now be used in RBAC Role bindings since the default scopes now include the
userinfo.email
scope. This is a breaking change if the numeric uniqueIDs of the Google service accounts were being used in RBAC role bindings. The behavior can be overridden by explicitly specifying the scope values as comma-separated string in theusers[*].config.scopes
field in theKUBECONFIG
file. -
[k8s.io/api] The
ConfigOK
node condition has been renamed toKubeletConfigOk
.
New Features:
-
Subresource support is added to the dynamic client.
-
A watch method is added to the Fake Client.
-
ListOptions
can be modified when creating aListWatch
. -
A
/token
subresource for ServiceAccount is added. -
If an informer delivery fails, the particular notification is skipped and continued the next time.
-
Certificate manager will no longer wait until the initial rotation succeeds or fails before returning from
Start()
. -
[k8s.io/api]
VolumeScheduling
andLocalPersistentVolume
features are beta and enabled by default. The PersistentVolume NodeAffinity alpha annotation is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. -
[k8s.io/api] The
PodSecurityPolicy
API has been moved to thepolicy/v1beta1
API group. ThePodSecurityPolicy
API in theextensions/v1beta1
API group is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. -
[k8s.io/api] ConfigMap objects now support binary data via a new
binaryData
field. -
[k8s.io/api] Service account TokenRequest API is added.
-
[k8s.io/api] FSType is added in CSI volume source to specify filesystems.
-
[k8s.io/api] v1beta1 VolumeAttachment API is added.
-
[k8s.io/api]
v1.Pod
now has a fieldShareProcessNamespace
to configure whether a single process namespace should be shared between all containers in a pod. This feature is in alpha preview. -
[k8s.io/api] Add
NominatedNodeName
field toPodStatus
. This field is set when a pod preempts other pods on the node. -
[k8s.io/api] Promote
CSIPersistentVolumeSourc
e to beta. -
[k8s.io/api] Promote
DNSPolicy
andDNSConfig
inPodSpec
to beta. -
[k8s.io/api] External metric types are added to the HPA API.
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] The
meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1
objects for retrieving tabular responses from the server (Table
) or fetching just theObjectMeta
for an object (asPartialObjectMetadata
) are now beta as part ofmeta.k8s.io/v1beta1
. Clients may request alternate representations of normal Kubernetes objects by passing anAccept
header likeapplication/json;as=Table;g=meta.k8s.io;v=v1beta1
orapplication/json;as=PartialObjectMetadata;g=meta.k8s.io;v1=v1beta1
. Older servers will ignore this representation or return an error if it is not available. Clients may request fallback to the normal object by adding a non-qualified mime-type to theirAccept
header likeapplication/json
- the server will then respond with either the alternate representation if it is supported or the fallback mime-type which is the normal object response.
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
Port-forwarding of TCP6 ports is fixed.
-
A race condition in SharedInformer that could violate the sequential delivery guarantee and cause panics on shutdown is fixed.
-
[k8s.io/api] PersistentVolume flexVolume sources can now reference secrets in a namespace other than the PersistentVolumeClaim's namespace.
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] YAMLDecoder Read can now return the number of bytes read.
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] YAMLDecoder Read now tracks rest of buffer on
io.ErrShortBuffer
. -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Prompt required merge key in the error message while applying a strategic merge patch.
Breaking Changes:
-
If you upgrade your client-go libs and use the
AppsV1() or Apps()
interface, please note that the default garbage collection behavior is changed. -
Swagger 1.2 retriever
DiscoveryClient.SwaggerSchema
was removed from the discovery client -
Informers got a NewFilteredSharedInformerFactory to e.g. filter by namespace
-
[k8s.io/api] The dynamic admission webhook is split into two kinds, mutating and validating. The kinds have changed completely and old code must be ported to
admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1
-MutatingWebhookConfiguration
andValidatingWebhookConfiguration
-
[k8s.io/api] Renamed
core/v1.ScaleIOVolumeSource
toScaleIOPersistentVolumeSource
-
[k8s.io/api] Renamed
core/v1.RBDVolumeSource
toRBDPersistentVolumeSource
-
[k8s.io/api] Removed
core/v1.CreatedByAnnotation
-
[k8s.io/api] Renamed
core/v1.StorageMediumHugepages
toStorageMediumHugePages
-
[k8s.io/api]
core/v1.Taint.TimeAdded
became a pointer -
[k8s.io/api]
core/v1.DefaultHardPodAffinitySymmetricWeight
type changed from int to int32 -
[k8s.io/apimachinery]
ObjectCopier
interface was removed (requires switch to new generators with DeepCopy methods)
New Features:
-
Certificate manager was moved from kubelet to
k8s.io/client-go/util/certificates
-
[k8s.io/api] Workloads api types are promoted to
apps/v1
version -
[k8s.io/api] Added
storage.k8s.io/v1alpha1
API group -
[k8s.io/api] Added support for conditions in StatefulSet status
-
[k8s.io/api] Added support for conditions in DaemonSet status
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Added polymorphic scale client in
k8s.io/client-go/scale
, which supports scaling of resources in arbitrary API groups -
[k8s.io/apimachinery]
meta.MetadataAccessor
got API chunking support -
[k8s.io/apimachinery]
unstructured.Unstructured
got getters and setters
Bug fixes and Improvements:
-
The body in glog output is not truncated with log level 10
-
[k8s.io/api] Unset
creationTimestamp
field is output as null if encoded from an unstructured object -
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Redirect behavior is restored for proxy subresources
-
[k8s.io/apimachinery] Random string generation functions are optimized
Bug fix: picked up a security fix kubernetes/kubernetes#53443 for PodSecurityPolicy
.
New features:
-
Added paging support
-
Added support for client-side spam filtering of events
-
Added support for http etag and caching
-
Added priority queue support to informer cache
-
Added openstack auth provider
-
Added metrics for checking reflector health
-
Client-go now includes the leaderelection package
API changes:
-
Promoted Autoscaling v2alpha1 to v2beta1
-
Promoted CronJobs to batch/v1beta1
-
Promoted rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1 to rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-
Added a new API version apps/v1beta2
-
Added a new API version scheduling/v1alpha1
Breaking changes:
-
Moved pkg/api and pkg/apis to k8s.io/api. Other kubernetes repositories also import types from there, so they are composable with client-go.
-
Removed helper functions in pkg/api and pkg/apis. They are planned to be exported in other repos. The issue is tracked here. During the transition, you'll have to copy the helper functions to your projects.
-
The discovery client now fetches the protobuf encoded OpenAPI schema and returns
openapi_v2.Document
-
Enforced explicit references to API group client interfaces in clientsets to avoid ambiguity.
-
The generic RESTClient type (
k8s.io/client-go/rest
) no longer exposesLabelSelectorParam
orFieldSelectorParam
methods - useVersionedParams
withmetav1.ListOptions
instead. TheUintParam
method has been removed. Thetimeout
parameter will no longer cause an error when usingParam()
.
No significant changes since v4.0.0-beta.0.
New features:
-
Added OpenAPISchema support in the discovery client
-
Added mutation cache filter: MutationCache is able to take the result of update operations and stores them in an LRU that can be used to provide a more current view of a requested object.
-
Moved the remotecommand package (used by
kubectl exec/attach
) to client-go -
Added support for following redirects to the SpdyRoundTripper
-
Added Azure Active Directory plugin
Usability improvements:
-
Added several new examples and reorganized client-go/examples
API changes:
-
Added networking.k8s.io/v1 API
-
ControllerRevision type added for StatefulSet and DaemonSet history.
-
Added support for initializers
-
Added admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1alpha1 API
Breaking changes:
-
Moved client-go/util/clock to apimachinery/pkg/util/clock
-
Some API helpers were removed.
-
Dynamic client takes GetOptions as an input parameter
Bug fixes:
-
PortForwarder: don't log an error if net.Listen fails. kubernetes/kubernetes#44636
-
oidc auth plugin not to override the Auth header if it's already exits. kubernetes/kubernetes#45529
-
The --namespace flag is now honored for in-cluster clients that have an empty configuration. kubernetes/kubernetes#46299
-
GCP auth plugin no longer overwrites existing Authorization headers. kubernetes/kubernetes#45575
Bug fixes:
- Use OS-specific libs when computing client User-Agent in kubectl, etc. (kubernetes/kubernetes#44423)
- kubectl commands run inside a pod using a kubeconfig file now use the namespace specified in the kubeconfig file, instead of using the pod namespace. If no kubeconfig file is used, or the kubeconfig does not specify a namespace, the pod namespace is still used as a fallback. (kubernetes/kubernetes#44570)
- Restored the ability of kubectl running inside a pod to consume resource files specifying a different namespace than the one the pod is running in. (kubernetes/kubernetes#44862)
- Added dependency on k8s.io/apimachinery. The impacts include changing import path of API objects like
ListOptions
fromk8s.io/client-go/pkg/api/v1
tok8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1
. - Added generated listers (listers/) and informers (informers/)
- Kubernetes API changes:
- Added client support for:
- authentication/v1
- authorization/v1
- autoscaling/v2alpha1
- rbac/v1beta1
- settings/v1alpha1
- storage/v1
- Changed client support for:
- certificates from v1alpha1 to v1beta1
- policy from v1alpha1 to v1beta1
- Deleted client support for:
- extensions/v1beta1#Job
- Added client support for:
- CHANGED: pass typed options to dynamic client (kubernetes/kubernetes#41887)
- Included bug fixes in k8s.io/kuberentes release-1.5 branch, up to commit bde8578d9675129b7a2aa08f1b825ec6cc0f3420
- Removed top-level version folder (e.g., 1.4 and 1.5), switching to maintaining separate versions in separate branches.
- Clientset supported multiple versions per API group
- Added ThirdPartyResources example
- Kubernetes API changes
- Apps API group graduated to v1beta1
- Policy API group graduated to v1beta1
- Added support for batch/v2alpha1/cronjob
- Renamed PetSet to StatefulSet
- Included the auth plugin (kubernetes/kubernetes#33334)
- Added timeout field to RESTClient config (kubernetes/kubernetes#33958)