Tech Radar, April 23, 2026: Kubernetes v1.36 Haru Ships 18 GA Features and Closes the Lifecycle Gap
Kubernetes v1.36 “Haru” shipped on April 22, 2026, one day ago. The release carries 70 enhancements: 18 to stable, 25 to beta, 25 to alpha. After reading the full release notes and the detailed pre-release analysis directly from the source material, the picture that emerges is not a flashy feature drop. It is a release that closes several long-standing lifecycle gaps, hardens the security model in ways that matter for production, and makes a meaningful architectural bet on Dynamic Resource Allocation as the future of GPU and AI workload management. ...