minikube v1.36.0

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Release Notes

Version 1.36.0 - 2025-05-22

Features

• Support Kubernetes version v1.33.1 #20784
• New flag “-f” to allow passing a config file for addon configure command. #20255
• vfkit: bump to Preferred driver on macOs #20808
• vfkit: new network option “—network vment-shared’ for vfkit driver #20501

Bug Fixes:

• fix bootpd check on macOS >= 15 #20400
• fix bug in parsing proxies with dashes #20648
• fix waiting for all pods having specified labels to be Ready #20315
• fix: incorrect finalImg affecting downloading kic form github assets #20316
• fix: reference missing files in schema (Closes #20752) #20761 Improvements:
• Additional checks for 9p support #20288
• vfkit: Graceful shutdown on stop #20504
• vfkit: More robust state management #20506
• vfkit vmnet: support running without sudoers configuration #20719
• Revert “fix —wait’s failure to work on coredns pods” #20313

Languages:

• Add Indonesian translation #20494
• Add more french translation #20361
• Add more Korean translations #20634
• Add more Chinese translations #20543#20543
• fixed minor typo in german translation #20546 Version Updates:
• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.28 to 1.5.34 #20451 #20539 #20602#20623 #20670 #20704#20795
• Addon headlamp: Update headlamp-k8s/headlamp image from v0.26.0 to v0.28.0 #20311
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.11.3 to v1.12.2 #20789
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.36.0 to v0.40.0 #20325#20354#20512 #20736
• Addon kong: Update kong image from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0 #20151#20384 #20728
• Addon kong: Update kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller image from 3.3.1 to 3.4.5 #20319#20446#20788
• Addon kubevirt: Update bitnami/kubectl image from 1.31.3 to 1.33.1 #20321#20349#20665#20731#20790
• Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.17.0 to v0.17.2 #20786#20534
• Addon registry: Update kube-registry-proxy image from 0.0.8 to 0.0.9 #20717
• Addon registry: Update registry image from 2.8.3 to 3.0.0 #20242 #20425
• Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.10.0 to v1.11.2 #20318#20616#20697
• CNI: Update cilium from v1.17.0 to v3.30.0 #20419 #20390 #20584 #20734 #20317#20383#20535 #20637 #20787
• CNI: Update flannel from v0.26.2 to v0.26.7 #20385#20617 #20639
• CNI: Update kindnetd from v20241108-5c6d2daf to v20250512-df8de77b #20327#20427 #20797
• HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v0.8.10 to v0.9.1 #20638#20238#20598 #20699
• Kicbase: Bump ubuntu:jammy from 20240911.1 to 20250126 #20387#20718
• Kicbase/ISO: Update buildroot from 2023.02.9 to 2025.2 #20720
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cni-plugins from v1.6.2 to v1.7.1 #20771
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cri-dockerd from v0.3.15 to v0.4.0 #20747
• Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 27.4.0 to 28.0.4 #20436 #20523#20591
• Kicbase/ISO: Update runc from v1.2.3 to v1.3.0#20433#20604 #20764

For a more detailed changelog, including changes occurring in pre-release versions, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• 錦南路之花
• Aaina Lohia
• Anthony Holloman
• cdw8431
• Cosmic Oppai
• Daniel Pepuho
• Jeff MAURY
• joaquimrocha
• Kubernetes Prow Robot
• Lan Liang
• luchenhan
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• minikube-bot
• Nir Soffer
• Predrag Rogic
• Sri Panyam
• Sylvester Carolan
• Tian
• VerlorenerReisender
• Victor Ubahakwe
• zvdy

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• medyagh (64 comments)
• nirs (23 comments)
• cfergeau (12 comments)
• prezha (8 comments)
• afbjorklund (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• Ritikaa96 (54 comments)
• Ruchi1499 (43 comments)
• dhairya-seth (31 comments)
• afbjorklund (14 comments)
• medyagh (13 comments)

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Installation

See Getting Started

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