# Kubernetes v1.36: ハル (Haru) DevFeed: [Kubernetes v1.36: ハル (Haru)]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Stable Fine-grained API authorization Published: 2026-04-22T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Kubernetes Blog]() Topics: [Kubernetes](), [releases](), [Maintainers](), [Red]() Tags: [community](), [kubernetes](), [maintainers](), [release](), [releases]() ## AI overview The article announces Kubernetes v1.36, describing 70 enhancements across Stable, Beta, and Alpha stages, along with deprecations and removals. It also explains the release's Haru theme and Red Fuji-inspired logo, and acknowledges the contributors involved in the release. ## Source excerpt Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the vibrant support from our community. This release consists of 70 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 18 have graduated to Stable, 25 are entering Beta, and 25 have graduated to Alpha. There are also some deprecations and removals in this release; make sure to read about those. Release theme and logo We open 2026 with Kubernetes v1.36, a release that arrives as the season turns and the light shifts on the mountain. ハル (Haru) is a sound in Japanese that carries many meanings; among those we hold closest are 春 (spring), 晴れ (hare, clear skies), and 遥か (haruka, far-off, distant). A season, a sky, and a horizon. You will find all three in what follows. The logo, created by avocadoneko / Natsuho Ide, draws inspiration from Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūrokkei), the same series that gave the world The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Our v1.36 logo reimagines one of the series' most celebrated prints, Fine Wind, Clear Morning (凱風快晴, Gaifū Kaisei), also known as Red Fuji (赤富士, Aka Fuji): the mountain lit red in a summer dawn, bare of snow after the long thaw. Thirty-six views felt like a fitting number to sit with at v1.36, and a reminder that even Hokusai didn't stop there.1 Keeping watch over the scene is the Kubernetes helm, set into the sky alongside the mountain. At the foot of Fuji sit Stella (left) and Nacho (right), two cats with the Kubernetes helm on their collars, standing in for the role of komainu, the paired lion-dog guardians that watch over Japanese shrines. Paired, because nothing is guarded alone. Stella and Nacho stand in for a very much larger set of paws: the SIGs and working groups, the maintainers and reviewers, the people