Introducing KubeStash v2025.10.17

We are pleased to announce the release of KubeStash v2025.10.17 , featuring enhanced documentation, stability improvements, and important bug fixes.

You can check out the full changelog HERE . In this post, we’ll walk you through the highlights of this release.

Documentation Updates:

Manifest-based Backup & Restore of Cluster Resources

This release includes comprehensive documentation for manifest-based backup and restore operations, helping you protect and recover your cluster resources with greater flexibility.

• Overview
• Configure Storage and RBAC
• Backup Filtering Options
• Restore Filtering Options
• Filtering Demonstration
• Full Cluster Backup & Restore

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Gracefully Skip Restricted Resources During Backup & Restore

In managed Kubernetes clusters, it’s common for certain resources or API groups to be restricted — meaning you might not have permission to create or restore them. In earlier versions, this could lead to unnecessary errors or confusion during restore operations.

Starting from this release, KubeStash now automatically excludes these resources from backup and restore workflows, ensuring a smoother experience and better compatibility with managed environments.

What’s New

• Automatic Resource Exclusion

  KubeStash now skips any resources that do not support the create verb, as these cannot be restored in new cluster.

  This optimization ensures backups include only restorable resources, reducing restore-time errors and improving reliability.

• Excluding System-Managed Resources by Default

  By default, the following resources are now excluded from backup and restore operations:

  • nodes
  • endpointslices.discovery.k8s.io

  These resources have create verb. But these objects are dynamically managed by Kubernetes and do not need to be backed up.

Fix VolumeSnapshot API Version Compatibility

Introduced a generic mechanism in API Machinery to handle compatibility across different VolumeSnapshot API versions. This enhancement eliminates the need to update VolumeSnapshot API references in each KubeStash or KubeDB repository for every new API release.

What Next?

Please try the latest release and give us your valuable feedback.

• If you want to install KubeStash in a clean cluster, please follow the installation instruction from HERE .
• If you want to upgrade KubeStash from a previous version, please follow the upgrade instruction from HERE .

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