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ChangelogMarch 2026 - V1.18.0

March 2026 - V1.18.0

✨✨✨ This release introduces Data Protection Mode for enhanced data privacy and auditability, improved JVM optimization, and a collection of enhancements and bug fixes across the platform. Check out what’s changed.

🚀 Highlights

Data Protection Mode

A new Data Protection Mode gives users full control over data privacy and auditability. When enabled:

  • Only node resource information (CPU, memory, etc.) required for optimization is sent to CloudPilot AI. All other data — including workload details, Pod specs, and configurations — stays within the cluster and is never uploaded.
  • All communication between the in-cluster agent and CloudPilot AI (POST/GET requests) is routed through the customer’s own proxy, ensuring complete data transparency and enabling the customer to audit and inspect every request.

This mode is ideal for security-sensitive environments where organizations need strict control over what data leaves the cluster and require a full audit trail of all external communications.

Data Protection Mode workflow

⚙️ Enhancements

  • Support batch setting all workloads as spot-friendly, making it easier to adopt Spot instances across the entire cluster in one action.
  • Support appending pre/post commands to running optimization scripts, giving users more flexibility in the Universal optimization workflow.
  • Collect and display new Image Accelerator metrics (remote pulled bytes), providing deeper visibility into image acceleration performance.
  • Add NodePool filter for controller events, making it easier to trace and diagnose events by NodePool.
  • Enhance JVM workload optimization with HeapDrift InplaceFallback support and JVM args mutation, improving Java workload right-sizing accuracy.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue where nodes could get stuck in terminating state under certain conditions.
  • Fix Pod eviction getting stuck when completed Pods exist on the node.
  • Fix cluster resource range timestamps not aligning with the selected time window.
  • Fix NodePool replacement issues during optimization.

These updates further improve CloudPilot AI’s overall reliability and user experience. For questions or support, join our Slack community 

Stay tuned for more updates! 🚀

Last updated on
March 2026 - V1.17.0