KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

You're looking forward to a new feature, waiting for the release day like it’s Christmas morning. Suddenly, the feature is dropped from the release. Even worse, a feature you heavily depend on is unexpectedly deprecated or removed. What now? Negative emotions take over, you feel sad, frustrated, and even angry at the project and its maintainers. Fortunately, this doesn't happen too often. But it does happen.

The Kubernetes maintainers strive to make users satisfied, but they also have to prioritize the health of the project and the well-being of the maintainers. To do that, they sometimes have to make breaking changes, even on short notice, as hard as it might be. In this talk, we'll dive into some of those decisions, see what went on behind the scenes, and talk a bit about Kubernetes policies. Finally, we'll explore _your_ options as an end user, how you can be better informed, how you can provide feedback on proposed changes, and how you can help the project!