1.34¶

Canonical Kubernetes Charms 1.34 - Release notes - 17 December 2025

Welcome to the 1.34 release of Canonical Kubernetes charms, the Juju operators for Canonical Kubernetes! These release notes cover the highlights of this release.

What’s new¶

Kubernetes 1.34 - read more about the upstream release here.
Canonical Kubernetes Snap 1.34 - read more about the snap release here.
Charmed etcd integration - Added support for integrating with charmed-etcd for external datastore management #747.
Enhanced observability - Added managed-etcd observability support with updated Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alert rules #658, #660.
CNCF conformance testing - Added comprehensive conformance test suite #716.
Terraform module enhancements - Added support for endpoint bindings and machine placement in Terraform modules #711.

Bug fixes¶

Handle node already in cluster error during join operation #754
Fix COS Kubernetes platform matching the OS of the runner #727
Include etcd in Grafana dropdown filtering #690
Fix cos-tokens shared in app databag #649
Indicate to Juju to no longer hold onto failed token content #700

Testing improvements¶

ARM tests on noble containers #718
Test dualstack on LXD clouds #564
Integration tests can skip COS tests on arm64 #653
Multiple tests for various metrics machine agents #703

Upstream deprecations and API changes¶

For details of other deprecation notices and API changes for Kubernetes 1.34, please see the relevant sections of the upstream release notes.

Also in this release¶

Clean up tokens from removed kube-control relations #738
Fetch snap and tls_certificates library from PyPI instead of charmlib #737
Move k8sd_api_manager.py to src and update all imports #743
Report commit SHA with snap refreshes #771
K8s inspection-reports are now generated when failing to create a cos_substrate #776
Release branches follow 1.xx-classic snaps track #646

Contributors¶

Many thanks to @addyess, @mateoflorido, @baycarbone, @nhennigan, @rapour