June 13, 2025

🎉 CKS now supports Kubernetes v1.32

CKS now supports Kubernetes v1.32. For more information, refer to the Kubernetes changelog.

Slurm upgraded to 24.11.05, bringing in the latest upstream fixes and enhancements.
NCCL bumped to 2.26.5, improving GPU communication performance.
Added new CUDA runtime images for 12.8.1 and 12.9.0.
Introduced nsscache as an alternative option to SSSD for user caching.
Enabled timeout-based forced deletion of compute pods (disabled by default), allowing cleanup even when jobs are still running.
Backported Slurm 25.05 SlurmdSpecOverride and container awareness features to correctly configure CPUSpecList and MemSpecList, so static pod workloads no longer enter an invalid state after scontrol reconfigure.
Enhanced controller.etcConfigMap to accept either a single string or a list of multiple ConfigMaps.
Added the segment-calc script for visualizing block-topology segment allocations.
Defaulted PasswordAuthentication to no in sshd for improved security.
Charts now manage the ns.coreweave.cloud/managed namespace label.
Added support for VMPodScrape as an alternative to PodMonitor for metric gathering.