# ![k8s-v1.29](images/k8s-v129.png)  KubeZero 1.29

## What's new - Major themes
- all KubeZero and support AMIs based on Alpine 3.20.1
- new (optional) Telemetry module integrated consisting of OpenTelemetry Collector, Jaeger UI, OpenSearch + Dashboards backend
- custom KubeZero ArgoCD edition adding support for referring to external secrets via helm-secrets + vals
- updated Nvidia and AWS Neuron drivers to latest versions for AI/ML workloads
- Falco IDS now using the modern eBPF event source ( preview )

## Version upgrades
- cilium 1.15.7
- istio 1.22.3
- ArgoCD 2.11.5
- Prometheus 2.53 / Grafana 11.1 ( fixing many of the previous warnings )
- ...

### FeatureGates
- CustomCPUCFSQuotaPeriod
- KubeProxyDrainingTerminatingNodes
- ImageMaximumGCAge

## Known issues