# Rancher changelog

> Complete container management for Kubernetes.

- Vendor: SUSE
- Category: Developer Tools
- Official site: https://www.rancher.com
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher)
- Harvested from: GitHub (rancher/rancher)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### v2.13.8

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.13.8
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.13.8
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.13.8

Please refer to our [Prime Documentation](https://documentation.suse.com/cloudnative/rancher-manager/v2.13/en/release-notes/v2.13.8.html) for release notes about the Rancher Prime build.

### v2.11.16

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.11.16
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.11.16
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.11.16

Please refer to our [Prime Documentation](https://documentation.suse.com/cloudnative/rancher-manager/v2.11/en/release-notes/v2.11.16.html) for release notes about the Rancher Prime build.

### v2.12.12

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.12.12
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.12.12
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.12.12

Please refer to our [Prime Documentation](https://documentation.suse.com/cloudnative/rancher-manager/v2.12/en/release-notes/v2.12.12.html) for release notes about the Rancher Prime build.

### v2.15.0

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.15.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.15.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.15.0

- **added** — Support for Kubernetes v1.36
- **removed** — Support for Kubernetes v1.33
- **added** — Cluster API (CAPI) support promoted to General Availability with v1.13.2
- **added** — Inherited Namespace Rules for GlobalRoles allowing administrators to define inheritedNamespacedRules to automatically propagate namespace RBAC permissions across downstream clusters
- **added** — Azure AD Single Logout (SLO) support allowing users to terminate Azure AD sessions upon logging out of Rancher with custom sovereign-cloud endpoint support
- **added** — Hide Local Auth Provider feature flag to restrict local UI authentication once an External Authentication Provider is configured
- **changed** — Workloads Overview UI replaces the legacy all-in-one Workloads list in the Rancher Dashboard for improved performance in large-scale environments
- **added** — Cap on maximum number of public endpoint annotations written for Ingress objects to prevent exceeding Kubernetes' 256 KB metadata annotation size limit
- **changed** — Optimized rancher-images.txt to include only the latest patch release per Kubernetes minor version, filtering out RC pre-releases and superseded versions to reduce air-gapped image tarball size
- **changed** — Rancher App Chart Retention Policy now preserves chart versions in the Rancher repository for the 7 most recent minor releases, with enforcement beginning in v2.15
- **fixed** — Fixed rancher-save-images.sh failing to pull OCI-based Helm charts when Docker daemon uses overlay2 storage driver

#### Release v2.15.0

> [!IMPORTANT]
> - If you are using Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS), upgrading to Rancher v2.10.1 or later may cause issues with authentication, requiring manual intervention. These issues are due to the AD FS Relying Party Trust not being able to pick up a signature verification certificate from the metadata. For more information, see [\#48655](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/48655). These issues can be corrected by either of two methods:
>
>   - Updating the Relying Party Trust information from federation metadata (Relying Party Trust → Update from Federation Metadata…​).
>
>   - Directly adding the certificate (Relying Party Trust → Properties → Signature tab → Add → Select the certificate).

Rancher v2.15.0 is the latest minor release of Rancher. This is a Community version release that introduces new features, enhancements, and various updates.

##### What's New - v2.15.0

* **Kubernetes Support and Lifecycle Updates**
  * Rancher v2.15 adds support for **Kubernetes v1.36** while removing support for Kubernetes v1.33.
  * **Rancher App Chart Retention Policy**: Enforces a new lifecycle policy preserving chart versions in the "Rancher" repository for the **7 most recent minor releases** (approx. 2.5 years). Older chart versions have been removed.

* **Cluster Provisioning**
  * **Cluster API (CAPI) GA**: Support for native CAPI infrastructure providers within the V2 provisioning framework (v2prov) has been promoted to **General Availability (GA)**.
  * Updated CAPI support to **v1.13.2**.

* **Authentication**
  * **Inherited Namespace Rules for GlobalRoles**: Administrators can now define `inheritedNamespacedRules` in GlobalRoles to automatically propagate specific namespace RBAC permissions across all downstream clusters.
  * **Azure AD SSO Logout**: Added support for Single Logout (SLO) with Azure AD, allowing users to terminate their Azure AD session directly upon logging out of Rancher, with support for custom sovereign-cloud endpoints.
  * **Hide Local Auth Provider**: Introduced a new `hide-local-auth-provider` feature flag to restrict local UI authentication once an External Authentication Provider (EAP) is configured.

* **Dashboard**
  * **Workloads Overview UI**: Replaces the legacy all-in-one Workloads list in the Rancher Dashboard with a high-performance **Workloads Overview** UI view designed for large-scale environments.

##### Rancher General

###### Features and Enhancements

- Rancher now supports Kubernetes v1.36. See [\#54303](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/54303) for information on Rancher support for Kubernetes v1.36. You can view the [upstream Kubernetes changelog](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.36.md) for v1.36 for a complete list of changes.

- Added a cap on the maximum number of public endpoint annotations (`field.cattle.io/publicEndpoints`) written for Ingress objects. This prevents workloads with extensive custom domain lists from exceeding Kubernetes’ 256 KB metadata annotation size limit and triggering API validation errors. See [\#42058](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/42058).

- Optimized `rancher-images.txt` to include only the latest patch release per Kubernetes minor version compatible with the target Rancher release. Release Candidate (RC) pre-releases and superseded patch/minor versions are now filtered out, significantly reducing the size of air-gapped image tarballs while ensuring `system-agent-installer` and auxiliary images remain fully up to date. See [\#46174](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/46174).

###### Behavior Changes

- Rancher v2.15 removes support for Kubernetes v1.33. See [\#55306](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/55306).

###### Retention Policy for Rancher App Charts

To improve repository performance, Rancher is introducing a lifecycle management policy for charts available in the Apps feature of

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### v2.14.4

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.14.4
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.14.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.14.4

Please refer to our [Prime Documentation](https://documentation.suse.com/cloudnative/rancher-manager/v2.14/en/release-notes/v2.14.4.html) for release notes about the Rancher Prime build.

### v2.15.0-rc5

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.15.0-rc5
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.15.0-rc5
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.15.0-rc5
- Labels: Pre-release

#### Images with -rc
rancher/rancher-agent:v2.15.0-rc5
rancher/rancher:v2.15.0-rc5

#### Components with -rc
CLI_VERSION v2.15.0-rc.1
DASHBOARD_UI_VERSION v2.15.0-rc1
ALI-OPERATOR v1.15.0-rc.3

#### Min version components with -rc

#### Chart/KDM sources
* CHART_DEFAULT_BRANCH: release-v2.15 (`scripts/package-env`)
* CHART_DEFAULT_BRANCH: release-v2.15 (`package/Dockerfile`)
* CATTLE_KDM_BRANCH: release-v2.15 (`package/Dockerfile`)
* CATTLE_KDM_BRANCH: release-v2.15 (`Dockerfile.runtime`)
* KDMBranch: release-v2.15 (`pkg/settings/setting.go`)
* ChartDefaultBranch: release-v2.15 (`pkg/settings/setting.go`)

### v2.11.16-rc1

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.11.16-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.11.16-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.11.16-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release

### v2.12.12-rc1

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.12.12-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.12.12-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.12.12-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release

### v2.13.8-rc1

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.13.8-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.13.8-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.13.8-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release

### v2.14.4-rc1

- Date: 2026-07-30
- Version: v2.14.4-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.14.4-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rancher/releases/v2.14.4-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release