On September 29, 2025 (Beijing Time), [Volcano v1.13] (https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano/releases/tag/v1.13.0)[1] was officially released. This update brings functional enhancements across multiple areas, providing users with a more comprehensive cloud-native batch computing solution.
As AI large model technology rapidly evolves, enterprises are placing higher demands on computing resource efficiency and application performance. For complex application scenarios such as AI, big data, and high-performance computing (HPC), efficiently utilizing accelerators like GPUs, ensuring high system availability, and managing resources with fine granularity are the core areas of focus for the Volcano community's continuous innovation.
As the de facto standard in cloud-native batch computing, Volcano has been widely adopted across various scenarios, including AI, Big Data, and High-Performance Computing (HPC). With over 800 contributors from more than 30 countries and tens of thousands of code commits, Volcano has been deployed in production environments by over 60 enterprises worldwide. It provides the industry with excellent practical standards and solutions for cloud native batch computing.
On Sep 19, 2024, UTC+8, Volcano version v1.10.0 was officially released. This version introduced the following new features:
On May 21, 2024, UTC+8, Volcano version v1.9.0 was officially released. This version added the following new features:
On January 9, 2024, UTC+8, Volcano version v1.8.2 was officially released. This version added the following new features:
Volcano 1.7.0 is now available with the following new features:
Volcano is the industry-first cloud native batch computing project. Open-sourced at KubeCon Shanghai in June 2019, it became an official CNCF project in April 2020. In April 2022, Volcano was promoted to a CNCF incubating project. By now, more than 490 global developers have committed code to the project. The community is seeing growing popularity among developers, partners, and users.
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Container Cubeon September 6th, 2021, refer to Volcano v1.4.0-Beta发布，支持NUMA-Aware等多个重要特性
Volcano, CNCF's first batch computing project, is now available with a new version, v1.4 (Beta). This version includes multiple important features, such as resource ratio-based partitions on GPU nodes, NUMA-aware, mixed deployment of multiple schedulers, and greatly improved stability.