release: Add Changelog for v1.38.1 (#22681)

* add changelog for v1.38.1

* markdown lint

* markdown lint

* fix lint for markdown

Author: medyagh

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,66 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## Version 1.38.1 - 2026-02-19
+
+## Feature
+
+* Add Support for Kubernetes version v1.35.1 ([#22665](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22665))
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+* Fix lock file regression by appending UID to the lock driectory ([#22623](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22623))
+* Fix regression cross-arch execution by masking systemd-binfmt ([#22621](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22621))
+* Fix: PowerShell curl alias on Windows to check resgistry.k8s.io connectivity ([#22659](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22659))
+
+## Addons
+
+* Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.47 to 1.5.49 ([#22637](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22637))
+* Addon Headlamp: Update Headlamp image from v0.39.0 to v0.40.0 ([#22640](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22640))
+* Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.14.1 to v1.14.2 ([#22595](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22595))
+* Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.14.2 to v1.14.3 ([#22638](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22638))
+* Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.48.0 to v0.48.1 ([#22592](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22592))
+* Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.48.1 to v0.49.1 ([#22634](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22634))
+* Addon metrics-server: Update metrics-server/metrics-server image from v0.8.0 to v0.8.1 ([#22596](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22596))
+* Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.18.1 to v0.18.2 ([#22531](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22531))
+* Addon registry: Update registry image from 3.0.0 to 3.0.0 ([#22593](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22593))
+* Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.13.1 to v1.14.0 ([#22597](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22597))
+* Addon Volcano: Update volcano images from v1.14.0 to v1.14.1 ([#22663](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22663))
+* Addon yakd: Update manusa/yakd image from 0.0.7 to 0.0.8 ([#22639](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22639))
+* HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v1.0.3 to v1.0.4 ([#22598](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22598))
+
+## CNI
+
+* CNI: Update cilium from v1.18.6 to v1.19.0 ([#22636](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22636))
+* CNI: Update flannel from v0.27.4 to v0.28.1 ([#22635](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22635))
+* CNI: Update kindnetd from v20251212-v0.29.0-alpha-105-g20ccfc88 to v20260131-0806d083 ([#22594](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22594))
+* CNI: Update kindnetd from v20260131-0806d083 to v20260213-ea8e5717 ([#22661](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/22661))
+For a more detailed changelog, including changes occurring in pre-release versions, see [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+Thank you to our contributors for this release!
+
+- Bob Sira
+- Mateusz Łoskot
+- Medya Ghazizadeh
+- minikube-bot
+- Rachel Rice
+
+Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!
+
+- nirs (8 comments)
+- wt (5 comments)
+- medyagh (2 comments)
+- mloskot (2 comments)
+
+Thank you to our triage members for this release!
+
+- nirs (8 comments)
+- sleonov (5 comments)
+- afbjorklund (4 comments)
+- medyagh (4 comments)
+- saschpe (3 comments)
+
+Check out our [contributions leaderboard](https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/contrib/leaderboard/v1.38.1/) for this release!
+
 ## Version 1.38.0 - 2026-01-28
 
 ## Higlight

Makefile

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # Bump these on release - and please check ISO_VERSION for correctness.
 VERSION_MAJOR ?= 1
 VERSION_MINOR ?= 38
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 0
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 1
 RAW_VERSION=$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)
 VERSION ?= v$(RAW_VERSION)
 

hack/release_notes.sh

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ recent_date=$(git log -1 --format=%as $recent)
 
 go run hack/changelog/changelog.go
 
-echo ""
+
 echo "For a more detailed changelog, including changes occurring in pre-release versions, see [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)."
 echo ""