Kubernetes sets a new standard for release notes with Japanese poetry, also kills Ingress NGINX

Kubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.

Here’s the logo.

According to the launch announcement from the Kubernetes 1.36 Release Team, the new version “arrives as the season turns and the light shifts on the mountain.”

An artist named Natsuho Ide , who goes by avocadoneko, created the logo and drew inspiration from Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) – a famous sequence of drawings that includes the iconic image The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

The post says version referencing Hokusai with the logo for version 1.36 of Kubernetes therefore felt fitting, especially as the images proved so popular the great artist added another ten to the collection.

The logo “reimagines one of the series' most celebrated prints, Fine Wind, Clear Morning ...