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kwokctl: all versions and old releases

A tool to streamline the creation and management of clusters, with nodes simulated by kwok

4 versions of kwokctl are listed here, from December 18, 2023 to the current 0.8.0. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2023: 1 1 23 2024: 1 1 24 2025: 1 1 25 2026: 1 1 26

4 versions over 3 years · about 1.6 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
0.8.0Latest June 23, 2026 — 64-bit PortableARM64 Portable
Release notes
Changes by Kind
API Change or Feature
- Add steps to stage instead of next (#1403, @wzshiming)
- [kwokctl] Add subcommand config convert for upgrade old config (#1471, @wzshiming)
- Support IPv6 CIDR/IP (#1656, @wzshiming)
- Update default CIDR values from x.x.x.1/24 to x.x.x.0/24 (#1578, @wzshiming)
- Support resource creation for stage api
Support volume provisioner (#1617, @wzshiming)
- Support impersonate for pod/node in stage (#1629, @wzshiming)
- Change pod fast stage (#1640, @wzshiming)
- Respect delete finalizers
- Use conditions instead of podIP to check if the pod is ready
- [kwokctl] Add optional components to container runtime (docker/podman/nerdctl):
- kueue (#1513, @wzshiming)
- kueueviz (#1516, @wzshiming)
- jobset (#1537, @JerryHu1994)
- lws (#1610, @Copilot)
- descheduler (#1615, @Copilot)
- scheduler-plugins (#1661, @wzshiming)
- When enabled, the default kube-scheduler will be replaced by the kube-scheduler from scheduler-plugins, so the configuration can be passed using --kube-scheduler-config.
- [kwokctl] Add a warning log when enable/disable unsupport component (#1612, @wzshiming)
- [kwokctl] Support completion (#1618, @wzshiming)
Bug or Regression
- Add selector for pod readiness based on phase 'Pending' (#1509, @anson627)
- Fix the issue when kube-scheduler crash: "clientConnection" already set in map (#1447, @anson627)
- Fix port forward target address cannot be ipv6 (#1449, @wzshiming)
- [kwokctl] Fix metrics server on container runtime (#1557, @wzshiming)
- [kwokctl] Fix mount previousLogsFile (#1405, @wzshiming)
- [kwokctl] Fix port forward in container runtime (#1627, @wzshiming)
Other (Cleanup or Flake)
- Remove subcommand hack and use kectl instead (#1502, @wzshiming)
- Remove KWOK_MODE in controller, feature is deprecated in k8s 1.29. (#1599, @wzshiming)
- Remove cni in controller (#1600, @wzshiming)
- Remove the built-in default stage (#1496, @wzshiming)
Images
kwok
- registry.k8s.io/kwok/kwok:v0.8.0
cluster
- registry.k8s.io/kwok/cluster:
- v0.8.0-k8s.v1.36.1
- v0.8.0-k8s.v1.35.5
- v0.8.0-k8s.v1.34.8
- v0.8.0-k8s.v1.33.12
- v0.8.0-k8s.v1.32.13
- v0.8.0-k8s.v1.31.14
- ghcr.io/kwok-ci/cluster:
- Daily build with the latest kwok and the latest k8s.
Helm Chart
https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/kwok/kwok
- kwok 0.3.0
- stage-fast 0.3.0
- metrics-usage 0.3.0
Contributors
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! ❤️
Users whose commits are in this release (alphabetically by user name)
Contributors since v0.7.0:
- @anson627
- @arpitjain099
- @ChrsMark
- @Copilot
- @immanuwell
- @JerryHu1994
- @k8s-ci-robot
- @wzshiming
And thank you very much to everyone else not listed here who contributed in other ways like filing issues, giving feedback, etc. 🙏
0.7.0 May 16, 2025 — 64-bit PortableARM64 Portable
Release notes
Changes by Kind
API Change / Feature
- Add EnablePodsOnNodeSyncStreamWatch option to switch between watch list and stream watch to sync pods on node. (#1355, @lianghao208)
- Add NodeSyncWorkerParallelism to customize number of workers to sync nodes in parallel. (#1345, @lianghao208)
- Add EnablePodsOnNodeSyncListPager option to switch between watch list and pager list to sync pods on node. (#1351, @lianghao208)
- Support CEL for Stage (#1363, @wzshiming)
- Support for configuring previous container logs (#1336, @MitchelHsu)
- Support override filed for extraArg. (#1180, @liangyuanpeng)
- Add tracing (#1237, @wzshiming)
- Add the http response header 'Server' (#1373, @wzshiming)
- Flow control exemption (#1341, @wzshiming)
- Move the parameters from flag to config (#1342, @wzshiming)
- Supports load config from kustomize (#1018, @wzshiming)
- The all-in-one images will keep the components alive. (#1006, @wzshiming)
- kwokctl
- Add port-forward subcommand for exposing component port (#1203, @wzshiming)
- Enable tracing for etcd (#1234, @wzshiming)
- Set up metrics-usage.yaml as default (#1235, @wzshiming)
- Add subcommand kectl (#1371, @wzshiming)
- Add flag --etcd-quota-backend-size (#1221, @logica0419)
- Generically enable/disable a component (#1229, @wzshiming)
Bug or Regression
- Ensure PodScheduled conditions (#1244, @wzshiming)
- Fix Quantity calculation (#1260, @MondayCha)
- Fixed node being taken repeatedly causing queue block (#1253, @wzshiming)
- kwokctl
- Fix disable kube-controller-manager on kind runtime (#1232, @wzshiming)
Images
kwok
- registry.k8s.io/kwok/kwok:v0.7.0
cluster
- registry.k8s.io/kwok/cluster:
- v0.7.0-k8s.v1.33.0
- v0.7.0-k8s.v1.32.3
- v0.7.0-k8s.v1.31.6
- v0.7.0-k8s.v1.30.10
- v0.7.0-k8s.v1.29.14
- v0.7.0-k8s.v1.28.15
- ghcr.io/kwok-ci/cluster:
- Daily build with the latest kwok and the latest k8s.
Helm Chart
https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/kwok/kwok
- kwok 0.2.0
- stage-fast 0.2.0
- metrics-usage 0.2.0
Contributors
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! ❤️
Users whose commits are in this release (alphabetically by user name)
Contributors since v0.6.0:
- @chotiwat
- @k8s-ci-robot
- @killianmuldoon
- @lianghao208
- @liangyuanpeng
- @logica0419
- @mayooot
- @MitchelHsu
- @MondayCha
- @NeerajNagure
- @network-charles
- @swimablefish
- @Whitea029
- @wzshiming
- @yuzhou03
0.6.1 October 9, 2024 — 64-bit PortableARM64 Portable
Release notes
Changes by Kind
What's Changed
- [release-0.6] [kwokctl] Fix disable kube-controller-manager on kind runtime by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #1233
- [release-0.6] [kwokctl] Fix the default stages repeatedly by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #1245
- [release-0.6] Ensure PodScheduled conditions by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #1247
- [release-0.6] Fix broken links dependency for prometheus component by @wzshiming in #1246
- [release-0.6] Fixed node being taken repeatedly causing queue block by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #1254
- Release v0.6.1 by @wzshiming in #1250
Images
kwok
- registry.k8s.io/kwok/kwok:v0.6.1
cluster
- registry.k8s.io/kwok/cluster:{tag}
- v0.6.1-k8s.v1.30.4
- v0.6.1-k8s.v1.29.8
- v0.6.1-k8s.v1.28.13
- v0.6.1-k8s.v1.27.16
- v0.6.1-k8s.v1.26.15
- v0.6.1-k8s.v1.25.16
Helm Chart
https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/kwok/kwok
- kwok 0.1.1
- stage-fast 0.1.1
- metrics-usage 0.1.1
Full Changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok/compare/v0.6.0...v0.6.1
0.4.0 December 18, 2023 — 64-bit PortableARM64 Portable

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