# kind v0.28.0

- Product: kind (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kind)
- Vendor: Kubernetes SIGs
- Date: 2025-05-16
- Version: v0.28.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.28.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kind/releases/v0.28.0

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- **changed** — Update default Kubernetes version to 1.33.1
- **changed** — Update containerd to 2.1
- **changed** — Update runc to 1.3
- **changed** — Update Go to 1.24.2
- **fixed** — Node image now sets net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore to 0 to address container networking failures

This release moves to Kubernetes to 1.33.1 by default.

<h1 id="breaking-changes">Breaking Changes</h1>

The default node image is now `kindest/node:v1.33.1@sha256:8d866994839cd096b3590681c55a6fa4a071fdaf33be7b9660e5697d2ed13002`

<h1 id="new-features">New Features</h1>

- Updated to containerd 2.1 and runc 1.3
- Updated default node image to Kubernetes 1.33.1
- Updated go to 1.24.2

Images pre-built for this release:
- v1.33.1: `kindest/node:v1.33.1@sha256:8d866994839cd096b3590681c55a6fa4a071fdaf33be7b9660e5697d2ed13002`
- v1.32.5: `kindest/node:v1.32.5@sha256:36187f6c542fa9b78d2d499de4c857249c5a0ac8cc2241bef2ccd92729a7a259`
- v1.31.9: `kindest/node:v1.31.9@sha256:156da58ab617d0cb4f56bbdb4b493f4dc89725505347a4babde9e9544888bb92`
- v1.30.13: `kindest/node:v1.30.13@sha256:8673291894dc400e0fb4f57243f5fdc6e355ceaa765505e0e73941aa1b6e0b80`

**NOTE**: You _must_ use the `@sha256` digest to guarantee an image built for this release, until such a time as we switch to a different tagging scheme. Even then we will highly encourage digest pinning for security and reproducibility reasons.

See also: 
- https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#creating-a-cluster
- https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#building-images

NOTE: These node images support amd64 and arm64, both of our supported platforms. **You must use the same platform as your host,** for more context see https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/2718

<h1 id="fixes">Fixes</h1>

- Node image now sets `net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore` to 0 to address some container networking failures

<h1 id="contributors">Contributors</h1>

**Thank you to everyone who contributed to this kind over the years!**

Committers for this release:
- @adrianmoisey
- @AkihiroSuda
- @aojea
- @BenTheElder
- @k8s-ci-robot
- @mwdomino
- @null
- @pellared
- @rooty0
- @shaneutt
- @vonhatnam1212