# 1.26.0 - Release Candidate

LLMS index: [llms.txt](/site/llms.txt)

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This is the 1.26.0-rc release of Agones.

This release brings us support for Kubernetes 1.23, so if you are installing this release, remember to upgrade your clusters.

This release has lots of important bug fixes including:
- Remove \< Ready GameServers first when scaling down on the same node.
- Fleet Autoscaler - Fleet name CRD Validation issue.
- Fleet specific prometheus metrics to stop being exported when the fleet is deleted.
- Fix for FleetAutoscaler keeps alive all TLS connections permanently causing memory leak on webhook server.
- Fix for Default value on website for helm.installTests in helm chart setup.
- Clear metric labels on Fleet/Autoscaler delete

Check the <a href="https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/tree/release-1.26.0-rc">README</a> for details on features, installation and usage.

**Breaking changes:**

- Update Kubernetes to 1.23 [\#2642](https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/issues/2642)
- Upgrade Agones to Kubernetes 1.23 [\#2711](https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/pull/2711) ([roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))

**Implemented enhancements:**

- Move StateAllocationFilter to Beta [\#2688](https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/issues/2688)
- Made `strategy` configurable on relevant deployments [\#2721](https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/pull/2721) ([valentintorikian](https://github.com/valentintorikian))
- Exposes metrics ports on pods in order to enable GCP Managed Prometheus [\#2712](https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/pull/2712) ([austin-space](https://github.com/austin-space))
- Move StateAllocationFilter to beta [\#2695](https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/pull/2695) ([katsew](https://github.com/katsew))


Documentation: https://development.agones.dev/site/


See <a href="https://github.com/agones-dev/agones/blob/release-1.26.0-rc/CHANGELOG.md">CHANGELOG</a> for more details on changes.

Images available with this release:

- [gcr.io/agones-images/agones-controller:1.26.0-rc](https://gcr.io/agones-images/agones-controller:1.26.0-rc)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/agones-sdk:1.26.0-rc](https://gcr.io/agones-images/agones-sdk:1.26.0-rc)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/agones-ping:1.26.0-rc](https://gcr.io/agones-images/agones-ping:1.26.0-rc)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/agones-allocator:1.26.0-rc](https://gcr.io/agones-images/agones-allocator:1.26.0-rc)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/allocation-endpoint-proxy:0.1](https://gcr.io/agones-images/allocation-endpoint-proxy:0.1)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/autoscaler-webhook:0.4](https://gcr.io/agones-images/autoscaler-webhook:0.4)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/cpp-simple-server:0.15](https://gcr.io/agones-images/cpp-simple-server:0.15)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/crd-client:0.6](https://gcr.io/agones-images/crd-client:0.6)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/nodejs-simple-server:0.8](https://gcr.io/agones-images/nodejs-simple-server:0.8)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/rust-simple-server:0.11](https://gcr.io/agones-images/rust-simple-server:0.11)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/simple-game-server:0.13](https://gcr.io/agones-images/simple-game-server:0.13)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/supertuxkart-example:0.5](https://gcr.io/agones-images/supertuxkart-example:0.5)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/unity-simple-server:0.3](https://gcr.io/agones-images/unity-simple-server:0.3)
- [gcr.io/agones-images/xonotic-example:0.8](https://gcr.io/agones-images/xonotic-example:0.8)


Helm chart available with this release:

- <a href="https://agones.dev/chart/stable/agones-1.26.0-rc.tgz">
  <code>helm install agones agones/agones --version 1.26.0-rc</code></a>

> Make sure to add our stable helm repository using `helm repo add agones https://agones.dev/chart/stable`