# kind v0.29.0

- Product: kind (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kind)
- Vendor: Kubernetes SIGs
- Date: 2025-05-21
- Version: v0.29.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.29.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kind/releases/v0.29.0

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- **security** — Fix containerd CVE-2025-47290 / GHSA-cm76-qm8v-3j95
- **changed** — Update to containerd 2.1.1
- **changed** — Default node image is now kindest/node:v1.33.1@sha256:050072256b9a903bd914c0b2866828150cb229cea0efe5892e2b644d5dd3b34f

This is a quick security release to pickup the containerd 2.1.1 [CVE-2025-47290](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-47290) fix.
See [v0.28.0](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.28.0) (release days ago!) for full release notes with recent changes:
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.28.0

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

The default node image is now `kindest/node:v1.33.1@sha256:050072256b9a903bd914c0b2866828150cb229cea0efe5892e2b644d5dd3b34f`

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

- Updated to containerd 2.1.1

Images pre-built for this release:
- v1.33.1: `kindest/node:v1.33.1@sha256:050072256b9a903bd914c0b2866828150cb229cea0efe5892e2b644d5dd3b34f`
- v1.32.5: `kindest/node:v1.32.5@sha256:e3b2327e3a5ab8c76f5ece68936e4cafaa82edf58486b769727ab0b3b97a5b0d`
- v1.31.9: `kindest/node:v1.31.9@sha256:b94a3a6c06198d17f59cca8c6f486236fa05e2fb359cbd75dabbfc348a10b211`
- v1.30.13: `kindest/node:v1.30.13@sha256:397209b3d947d154f6641f2d0ce8d473732bd91c87d9575ade99049aa33cd648`

**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>

- Fixes containerd [CVE-2025-47290](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-47290) / GHSA-cm76-qm8v-3j95

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

Committers for this release:
- @BenTheElder
- @k8s-ci-robot
- @stmcginnis

(Please see v0.28.0 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.28.0#Contributors)