Bump k8s.io/minikube from 1.37.0 to 1.38.0

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Bumps k8s.io/minikube from 1.37.0 to 1.38.0.

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v1.38.0

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Release Notes

Version 1.38.0 - 2026-01-28

Higlights

• No Sudo required for vfkit/krunkit on macOS 26+ (requires latest vmnet-helper)
• No Sudo required to run AI Playground on Macos GPUs using minikube
• vfkit: Add Rosetta support for deploying amd64 images on Apple silicon (#22140)

Features

• Add support for Kubernetes v1.35.0 (#21650)(#22015)(#22119)(#22328)
• VM Drivers: add support for NVMe-oF/TCP block devices (#22464)
• VM Drivers: Enable BTF debug symbols to support eBPF tooling in iso (#21800)
• Add option to download preloads from github instead of GCS through --preload-source (#22221)
• Vfkit/Krunkit drivers: add ability to Run vmnet-helper as unprivileged user on macOS 26+ (#22501)
• add option to add helm-based addons (#21847)
• preload: download from github when gcs not available (#21605)

Warnings & Deprecations

• UI: Add a warning on changing default runtime to "containerd" in the next version (v1.39.0) (#22508)
• hyperkit: remove driver builds & warn users to switch (#21946)
• Remove minikube support for 32-bit architectures (#22401)

Improvements

• UI: colorful based on status (profile list, addons list) (#22418)
• Skip caching binaries when --no-kubernetes is set (#21139)
• improve retry logs to print less duplicate lines (#22232)
• improve ssh runner copying cert files (#21923)
• vmnet: Skip validation in download-only mode (#21635)
• Improve windows cert in kubeconfig: normalize generated cert paths to forward slashes (#21845)
• Add cgroup v2 freezer check for API server status (#22249)
• Set FailCgroupV1 kubelet option for kubenetes 1.35+ if cgroup v1 (#22319)
• containerd: retry on transient EOF errors for image load (#22310)
• cri: increase default 2s timeout for crictl commands (#22214)
• crio: verify images are deleted after "image rm" (#22243)
• docker runtime: Use CRI for ListImages function (#22263)
• image save: Add retry logic for local image in case of EOF (#22072)
• HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v1.0.0 to v1.0.3 (#21699)(#21960)(#22258)

Drivers

• drivers: Introduce WaitForSSHAccess and fix macos smoke tests (#22179)
• hyperkit driver: Fix file descriptor leaks in status (#22524)

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Changelog

Sourced from k8s.io/minikube's changelog.

Version 1.38.0 - 2026-01-28

Higlight

• No Sudo required for with vfkit/krunkit on macOS 26+ (requires latest vmnet-helper)
• No Sudo required to run AI Playground on Macos GPUs using minikube
• vfkit: Add Rosetta support for deploying amd64 images on Apple silicon (#22140)

Features

• Add support for Kubernetes v1.35.0 v1.34.1 (#21650)(#22015)(#22119)(#22328)
• VM Drivers: add support for NVMe-oF/TCP block devices (#22464)
• VM Drivers: Enable BTF debug symbols to support eBPF tooling in iso (#21800)
• Add option to download preloads from github instead of GCS through --preload-source (#22221)
• Vfkit/Krunkit drivers: add ability to Run vmnet-helper as unprivileged user on macOS 26+ (#22501)
• add option to add helm-based addons (#21847)
• preload: download from github when gcs not available (#21605)

Warnings & Deprications

• UI: Add a warning on changing default runtime to "containerd" in the next version (v1.39.0) (#22508)
• hyperkit: remove driver builds & warn users to switch (#21946)
• Remove minikube support for 32-bit architectures (#22401)

Improvements

• UI: colorful based on status (profile list, addons list) (#22418)
• Skip caching binaries when --no-kubernetes is set (#21139)
• improve retry logs to print less duplicate lines (#22232)
• improve ssh runner copying cert files (#21923)
• vmnet: Skip validation in download-only mode (#21635)
• Improve windows cert in kubeconfig: normalize generated cert paths to forward slashes (#21845)
• Add cgroup v2 freezer check for API server status (#22249)
• Set FailCgroupV1 kubelet option for kubenetes 1.35+ if cgroup v1 (#22319)
• containerd: retry on transient EOF errors for image load (#22310)
• cri: increase default 2s timeout for crictl commands (#22214)
• crio: verify images are deleted after "image rm" (#22243)
• docker runtime: Use CRI for ListImages function (#22263)
• image save: Add retry logic for local image in case of EOF (#22072)
• HA (multi-control plane): Update kube-vip from v1.0.0 to v1.0.3 (#21699)(#21960)(#22258)

Drivers

• drivers: Introduce WaitForSSHAccess and fix macos smoke tests (#22179)
• hyperkit driver: Fix file descriptor leaks in status (#22524)
• kvm: fix minikube on Fedora/RHEL with SELinux (#21550)
• kvm: remove dependency on external driver (#21625)
• Mark the legacy parallels driver as deprecated (#22379)
• none driver: Fix "stop" with containerd runtime (#22275)
• Update minikube-machine drivers (#22369)

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Commits

• de81223 chore: remove ARM architecture support from release checksums (#22585)
• 67dc9a3 chore: remove arm/v7 architecture from release build targets in the upload sc...
• f588de3 Release: Update ISO to v1.38.0 (#22574)
• 904fa60 Add changelog for v138.0 and bump minikube version (#22579)
• a9e6a5e Release: Update kicbase to v0.0.49 (#22572)
• f26a58d Build(deps): Bump github.com/docker/cli from 29.1.5+incompatible to 29.2.0+in...
• 1feaead Build(deps): Bump github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/...
• 0ad1506 Build(deps): Bump google.golang.org/api from 0.260.0 to 0.262.0 (#22562)
• e028c44 fix: kubevirt addon by removing curl dependency (#22557)
• 4fe5990 Build(deps): Bump the official-gh-actions group with 2 updates (#22564)
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Superseded by #228.