Release Notes for Smart Karpenter Version 1.1.0
Release Date: 12th September 2025
Smart Karpenter provides advanced autoscaling designed for modern applications, automating application and infrastructure scaling with accuracy. It offers the fastest path to optimizing Kubernetes performance, lowering cloud costs, and eliminating DevOps scaling challenges.
We continue to add new features and enhancements to Smart Karpenter.
What's New 🔈
Support for LKE Enterprise
Starting from this version, Smart Karpenter can provision and manage nodes in Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) Enterprise.
For more details, see:
Updated Smart Karpenter Core to version 1.6.2
This new version provides latest stability, performance, and security improvements from upstream Smart Karpenter.
Support for Oracle Bare Metal GPU Compute Shape 
Smart Karpenter supports Oracle Bare Metal GPU compute shape, BM.GPU.A10. You can add this instance in the NodePool
configuration. The Oracle Bare Metal GPU compute shape node support is currently in Beta.
For more information, see Bare Metal GPU NodePool.