Kubernetes v1.34 is coming in late August 2025, and this release is all about polish and power-ups. No removals. No deprecations. Just features you’ll actually want to use. Here are my personal favorites from the sneak peek. ServiceAccount Tokens for Image Pulls Long-lived image pull secrets have been the awkward relic of Kubernetes security for years. Now, v1.34 promotes (beta, enabled by default) a new approach: the kubelet uses short-lived, auto-rotated ServiceAccount tokens per Pod to authenticate with registries.