# kind v0.30.0

- Product: kind (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kind)
- Vendor: Kubernetes SIGs
- Date: 2025-08-27
- Version: v0.30.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/tag/v0.30.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kind/releases/v0.30.0

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- **changed** — Default node image is now kindest/node:v1.34.0@sha256:7416a61b42b1662ca6ca89f02028ac133a309a2a30ba309614e8ec94d976dc5a
- **changed** — Updated to containerd 2.1.4
- **fixed** — Fix an issue with rebooting v1.33.0+ clusters
- **fixed** — Add priority class system-critical to kindnetd
- **fixed** — Fix HA control-plane loadbalancer for podman
- **fixed** — Fix node-image builds with relative source paths

This is small release containing patched dependencies and Kubernetes 1.34, as well as a bugfix for Kubernetes v1.33.0+ cluster reboots.

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

The default node image is now `kindest/node:v1.34.0@sha256:7416a61b42b1662ca6ca89f02028ac133a309a2a30ba309614e8ec94d976dc5a`

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

- Updated to containerd 2.1.4

Images pre-built for this release:
- v1.34.0: `kindest/node:v1.34.0@sha256:7416a61b42b1662ca6ca89f02028ac133a309a2a30ba309614e8ec94d976dc5a`
- v1.33.4: `kindest/node:v1.33.4@sha256:25a6018e48dfcaee478f4a59af81157a437f15e6e140bf103f85a2e7cd0cbbf2`
- v1.32.8: `kindest/node:v1.32.8@sha256:abd489f042d2b644e2d033f5c2d900bc707798d075e8186cb65e3f1367a9d5a1`
- v1.31.12: `kindest/node:v1.31.12@sha256:0f5cc49c5e73c0c2bb6e2df56e7df189240d83cf94edfa30946482eb08ec57d2`

**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>

- Fix an issue with rebooting v1.33.0+ clusters https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/3941
- Add priority class system-critical to kindnetd
- Fix HA control-plane loadbalancer for podman https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/pull/3962
- Fix node-image builds with relative source paths

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

Committers for this release:
- @BenTheElder
- @dims
- @k8s-ci-robot
- @oduludo
- @stmcginnis
- @tchap
- @tom1299