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.
Volcano is excited to announce the completion of our CNCF-funded security audit carried out by Ada Logics and facilitated by OSTIF in collaboration with the Volcano maintainers. The audit was scoped to cover the Volcano source code, supply-chain risks and fuzzing. The auditing team identified 10 security issues which the Volcano security team has fixed with the completion of the audit.
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:
Cloud native batch computing engine Volcano is designed for high-performance computing applications such as AI, big data, gene sequencing, and rendering, and supports mainstream general computing frameworks. More than 58,000 global developers joined us, among whom the in-house ones come from companies such as Huawei, AWS, Baidu, Tencent, JD, and Xiaohongshu. There are 3.7k+ Stars and 800+ Forks for the project. Volcano has been proven feasible for mass data computing and analytics, such as AI, big data, and gene sequencing. Supported frameworks include Spark, Flink, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Argo, MindSpore, Paddlepaddle, Kubeflow, MPI, Horovod, MXNet, KubeGene, and Ray. The ecosystem is thriving with more developers and use cases coming up.
On January 9, 2024, UTC+8, Volcano version v1.8.2 was officially released. This version added the following new features:
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies advance and large language models (LLMs) grow more popular, the demand for AI compute has been booming. This has generated huge demand for high-performance scheduling for the AI and for hardware like AI chips.
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.