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Talos Linux v1.14.6

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Key points

Talos Linux v1.14.6 was released on 2026-11-11 as a maintenance update to the 1.14 series. It moves the kernel to Linux 6.18.63, Flannel to 0.28.10 and the Go toolchain to 1.26.11, and includes a set of fixes and newly enabled kernel drivers.

Versions

  • Linux kernel: 6.18.63.
  • Flannel CNI: 0.28.10.
  • Talos is built with Go 1.26.11; the Go version in the project's constants was corrected to match.
  • The release contains 20 commits in Talos, 11 in siderolabs/pkgs and 1 in siderolabs/tools.
  • The previous release was v1.14.5.

Fixes

  • Kubernetes CA rotation now waits for the control plane static pods.
  • The etcd encryption config uses the aescbc provider for the AES-CBC key.
  • The SideroLink join token is now masked.
  • The partition offset of a discovered volume is no longer zeroed.
  • The mdadm runtime map directory gets its own SELinux type.
  • On OpenStack, logical links are skipped when interfaces are matched by MAC address.
  • Log senders reconnect when the receiver closes the connection.
  • Lifecycle service actions are logged to the console.
  • Architecture constraints were removed from affinity rules.
  • Files of pkg/xfs roots are opened with O_CLOEXEC.

BGP

  • Changed BGP peers are now updated.
  • The GoBGP library was updated from v4.8.0 to v4.10.0.

Kernel and hardware support

  • The applesmc module is enabled on amd64 and included in Talos.
  • AMD Pensando ionic and ionic_rdma are enabled.
  • The Broadcom PHY is enabled on amd64.
  • CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL_AMDXDNA is enabled on amd64.
  • On arm64, SMMUv3 SVA for ATS (NVIDIA Grace Hopper) and FF-A TPM CRB support are enabled.
  • NVIDIA drivers were updated; the notes do not give the new versions.

Dependencies

  • github.com/gopacket/gopacket v1.7.1 to v1.7.2.
  • github.com/klauspost/compress v1.19.2 to v1.20.2.
  • golang.org/x/net v0.61.0 to v0.62.0.
  • github.com/siderolabs/pkgs to v1.14.0-59-ge6ad19d and github.com/siderolabs/tools to v1.14.0-12-g5959f76.
  • github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/machinery v1.14.5 to v1.14.6.

Images

  • Kubernetes components (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, kube-proxy, kubelet) are listed at v1.37.1.
  • Other listed images: etcd v3.7.3, CoreDNS v1.14.7, pause 3.10.2, kube-network-policies v1.1.2 and ghcr.io/siderolabs/flannel:v0.28.10.
  • Talos images tagged v1.14.6: installer-base, imager, talos, talosctl-all, overlays and extensions, all under ghcr.io/siderolabs.

Feedback

  • The project asks users to try the release binaries and report problems at https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/issues.

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