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Tekton Pipelines

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Kubernetes-native building blocks for CI/CD pipelines

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Tekton 1.18 LTS lets a Task finish its steps and still fail.

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◆Current state
v1.18.0, an LTS release, adds continueAndFail for step.onError: remaining steps run, then the TaskRun fails. Controller-managed labels become immutable through the webhook, and a truncation bug in large OCI-resolved bundles is fixed. On October 23 five maintained branches, from v1.6.x to v1.17.x, received the same Go 1.27.3 image bump, and v1.6, v1.9 and v1.12 also got a vendor tarball fix.
◆Where it's heading
This cycle is quieter than the security-context change in v1.16. New capability is small and aimed at real pipeline behavior, such as collecting all test results before failing, while most of the release effort goes to keeping many branches current. Making labels immutable fits the same theme as v1.16: tightening what users can change on objects the controller owns.
◆Prediction
Expect more same-day patch sets across the LTS branches, since that pattern now repeats. No further end-of-life move appears in these entries, so timing for retiring older branches is unclear.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Tekton 1.18 LTS adds continueAndFail for failing steps

    step.onError gains continueAndFail, which runs the remaining steps and then fails the TaskRun. The LTS release also makes controller-managed labels immutable and fixes truncation of large OCI bundles.

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  2. 12d ago

    v1.6.8: Go 1.27.3 image and vendor tarball fix

    A patch on the v1.6 branch with the Go 1.27.3 image bump and a vendor tarball release fix, plus dependency updates. It is part of the October 23 multi-branch set.

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  3. 12d ago

    v1.12.3: Go 1.27.3 image and crypto dependency update

    The v1.12 LTS branch receives the same Go image bump and vendor tarball fix, along with a golang.org/x/crypto update. No behavior change for pipeline authors is listed.

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  4. 12d ago

    v1.9.9: Go 1.27.3 image and crypto dependency update

    The v1.9 branch gets the same maintenance set: Go image bump, vendor tarball fix and a crypto dependency update. Its value is keeping an older branch patched.

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  5. 12d ago

    v1.15.5: Go 1.27.3 image and crypto dependency update

    The v1.15 LTS branch picks up the Go image bump and golang.org/x/crypto 0.58.0. Routine branch maintenance with no new behavior.

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  6. 12d ago

    v1.17.1: Go 1.27.3 image bump

    A one-fix patch on v1.17 that bumps the plumbing ko image to Go 1.27.3. It is the smallest release in the October 23 set.

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