The next version of Kubernetes, version 1.7, is available to download now on Github, as announced via a blog post. This version includes fixes and new features in security, storage and extensibility areas.
Kubernetes is an open-source product that helps enterprises to automate their deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
From the blog:
At-a-glance, security enhancements in this release include encrypted secrets, network policy for pod-to-pod communication, node authorizer to limit kubelet access and client / server TLS certificate rotation.
For those of you running scale-out databases on Kubernetes, this release has a major feature that adds automated updates to StatefulSets and enhances updates for DaemonSets. We are also announcing alpha support for local storage and a burst mode for scaling StatefulSets faster.
Also, for power users, API aggregation in this release allows user-provided apiservers to be served along with the rest of the Kubernetes API at runtime. Additional highlights include support for extensible admission controllers, pluggable cloud providers, and container runtime interface (CRI) enhancements.