Highlights
This is a minor release with a new NPU plugin, support for new QAT hardware and various improvements and bug fixes.
Generic
- Kubernetes components updated to 1.34.x.
 - Images built using Go 1.25
 - DLB and FPGA plugins will be removed from the code base after this release.
 
GPU
- Supports allow and deny listings to limit the GPUs registered to the cluster resources.
 - Removal of 
resource managerfunctionality 
QAT
- Support for the Gen6 hardware (qat_6xxx)
 - Drop unsupported 
kerneldrvmode 
SGX
- Add new resource types to help DCAP infrastructure
 
NPU
- New plugin
 
Operator
- Support imagePullSecret for the device plugin objects
 - Detect errors correctly on update (7744aa7)
 
Bugs fixed
What's Changed (excluding dependabot)
- Add deprecation notices about GAS by @uniemimu in #1965
 - deployments: nfd: update DSA/IAA PCI IDs and nfd version by @mythi in #1971
 - nfd: gpu: update device IDs by @tkatila in #1973
 - Post 0.32 updates by @tkatila in #1975
 - build: drop dlb and fpga related images by @tkatila in #1977
 - dsa: dpdk example workload and use it in e2e by @tkatila in #1980
 - k8s.io v1.32.2 bump and golangci-lint fixes by @mythi in #1989
 - build: use Go 1.24 by @mythi in #1990
 - operator: fix outdated information by @hj-johannes-lee in #1986
 - trivy: ignore CVE-2025-1767 by @tkatila in #2015
 - qat: init: detect all system QAT devices by @mythi in #2000
 - Switching from i915 to DXG for GPU Acceleration in Kubernetes on WSL by @AmitGujar in #2026
 - ci: bump to golangi-lint v2 by @mythi in #2030
 - Added new LABEL maintainer to device plugin container images by @chaitanya1731 in #2029
 - operator: set pod security admission to privileged by @tkatila in #2045
 - build: fix license copy to container images by @tkatila in #2048
 - github: disable gnr(d) e2e targets by @mythi in #2049
 - build(deps): bump k8s.io to 1.33.0 by @mythi in #2038
 - Use standard OCI annotations by @AlexGustafsson in #2041
 - gpu levelzero: update the components to support LunarLake in WSL by @tkatila in #2043
 - ci: bump to golanci-lint v2.1.6 by @mythi in #2055
 - revertme: disable e2e by @tkatila in #2061
 - Allow providing a pull secret for the plugin daemonsets by @tkatila in #2074
 - build(deps): upgrade k8s.io/kubernetes to 1.33.2 by @tkatila in #2080
 - README: update OpenSSF Scorecard link by @mythi in #2096
 - Remove deprecated and unused functionality: GPU RM, QAT Kerneldrv, xpumanager-sidecar by @tkatila in #2100
 - NPU plugin support by @tkatila in #2066
 - qat: QAT Gen6 by @mythi in #2094
 - CODEOWNERS: move to global code ownership by @mythi in #2108
 - build: use Go 1.25 and trixie by @mythi in #2104
 - Gpu: Allow/denylist support to ignore devices (e.g. integrated) by @tkatila in #2101
 - gpu: update usage scenarios image by @tkatila in #2107
 - add notice about possible genAI use by @tkatila in #2109
 - drop unused functionality by @mythi in #2113
 - Update GPU plugin README driver section by @eero-t in #2105
 - sgx: add two special resources for quoting daemon and SGX platform registration by @mythi in #2103
 - gpu: fix breakage with allow/deny list being empty by @tkatila in #2115
 - build(deps): bump k8s.io to 1.34.0 by @mythi in #2111
 - qat: fix dpdk core selection on high core count systems by @tkatila in #2127
 - gpu: demo: convert to a pytorch workload by @tkatila in #2131
 - publish: add npu-plugin by @tkatila in #2136
 
New Contributors
- @AmitGujar made their first contribution in #2026
 - @AlexGustafsson made their first contribution in #2041
 
Full Changelog: v0.32.1...v0.34.0