minikube v1.38.1

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Release Notes

Version 1.38.1 - 2026-02-19

Feature

• Add Support for Kubernetes version v1.35.1 (#22665)

Bug fixes

• Fix lock file regression by appending UID to the lock driectory (#22623)
• Fix regression cross-arch execution by masking systemd-binfmt (#22621)
• Fix: PowerShell curl alias on Windows to check resgistry.k8s.io connectivity (#22659)

Addons

• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.47 to 1.5.49 (#22637)
• Addon Headlamp: Update Headlamp image from v0.39.0 to v0.40.0 (#22640)
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.14.1 to v1.14.2 (#22595)
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.14.2 to v1.14.3 (#22638)
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.48.0 to v0.48.1 (#22592)
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.48.1 to v0.49.1 (#22634)
• Addon metrics-server: Update metrics-server/metrics-server image from v0.8.0 to v0.8.1 (#22596)
• Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.18.1 to v0.18.2 (#22531)
• Addon registry: Update registry image from 3.0.0 to 3.0.0 (#22593)
• Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.13.1 to v1.14.0 (#22597)
• Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.14.0 to v1.14.1 (#22663)
• Addon yakd: Update manusa/yakd image from 0.0.7 to 0.0.8 (#22639)
• HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v1.0.3 to v1.0.4 (#22598)

CNI

• CNI: Update cilium from v1.18.6 to v1.19.0 (#22636)
• CNI: Update flannel from v0.27.4 to v0.28.1 (#22635)
• CNI: Update kindnetd from v20251212-v0.29.0-alpha-105-g20ccfc88 to v20260131-0806d083 (#22594)
• CNI: Update kindnetd from v20260131-0806d083 to v20260213-ea8e5717 (#22661) For a more detailed changelog, including changes occurring in pre-release versions, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• Bob Sira
• Mateusz Łoskot
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• minikube-bot
• Rachel Rice

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• nirs (8 comments)
• wt (5 comments)
• medyagh (2 comments)
• mloskot (2 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• nirs (8 comments)
• sleonov (5 comments)
• afbjorklund (4 comments)
• medyagh (4 comments)
• saschpe (3 comments)

Check out our contributions leaderboard for this release!

Installation

See Getting Started

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Source kubernetes/minikube · v1.38.1 · 2026-02-19 · upstream release

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