Authors: Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team
We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.21, our first release of 2021! This release consists of 51 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 16 enhancements are moving to beta, 20 enhancements are entering alpha, and 2 features have been deprecated.
This release cycle, we saw a major shift in ownership of processes around the release team. We moved from a synchronous mode of communication, where we periodically asked the community for inputs, to a mode where the community opts-in to contribute features and/or blogs to the release.

In 2019, we allocated 6,377,472 IPv4 addresses to our members while in 2020, only 302,848 addresses were allocated. This is the result of the #IPv4 run-out and the implementation of the /24 policy. Check out more stats in our 2020 Annual Report: ripe.net/publications/d…