Impact Score: 5/10
Kubernetes: Release v1.1.7
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Component: kubernetes ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Kubernetes v1.1.7. Source highlight: Documentation
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Fluentd improvements to lessen likelihood of buffers filling up and hanging (#20190, @a-robinson)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- Fix for Invalidation of DeviceMapping Cache when Detaching Volumes (#18559, @roberthbailey)
- Patches https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812207 / docker/docker#18180 (#19993, #20222, @zmerlynn)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## [Documentation](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.1/docs/README.md)
## [Examples](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.1/examples)
## Changes since v1.1.4 (last PR #20236)
- Fix for Invalidation of DeviceMapping Cache when Detaching Volumes (#18559, @roberthbailey)
- Fluentd improvements to lessen likelihood of buffers filling up and hanging (#20190, @a-robinson)
- Bump to container-vm-v20160127:
- address CVE-2016-0728
- Patches https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812207 / docker/docker#18180 (#19993, #20222, @zmerlynn)
| binary | hash alg | hash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `kubernetes.tar.gz` | md5 | `f979f5e205d724665cef8f79652ae796` |
| `kubernetes.tar.gz` | sha1 | `ec4fd08a73b2055a15df9b06fadd36a75e2eb35f` |
_Note that releases v1.1.5, and v1.1.6 are not stable releases. v1.1.5 contained a ContainerVM image that was not stable, and the v1.1.6 release failed due to release infrastructure problems (see https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/19935 and #20047 for further details)._