Issues

• Improve issue and PR templates and contributor guidelines.

  area/auto-scalingkind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1166 · Filter by author thiyyakat opened on Oct 12, 2026

• Improve NodePreserved condition and introduce NodeDrained condition

  area/auto-scalingarea/control-planekind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1164 · Filter by author thiyyakat opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• Improve MCM error propagation, status updates, and retry behaviour

  area/robustnesskind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1162 · Filter by author aaronfern opened on Sep 29, 2026
  

• Allow disabling MachineDrainTimeout

  area/robustnesskind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1161 · Filter by author Kumm-Kai opened on Sep 28, 2026

• Monitor Machine Join Failures and Adjust MachineDeployment effective-creation-timeout

  area/robustnesskind/enhancementpriority/2
  Feature

  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1155 · Filter by author elankath opened on Sep 16, 2026
  

• Introduce label "node.machine.sapcloud.io/machine-deployment-name" in Machine linking to grand-parent MachineDeployment

  area/usabilitykind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1139 · Filter by author elankath opened on Aug 26, 2026

• Improve Preservation Support during Rolling and InPlace Updates

  area/auto-scalingarea/control-planekind/enhancementpriority/2
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1137 · Filter by author thiyyakat opened on Aug 25, 2026

• Ensure that Machine object has standard k8s labels which match the Node object

  kind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1134 · Filter by author elankath opened on Aug 20, 2026
  1

• CreateMachine flow to have separate steps to Create and Initialize Machine

  area/robustnesskind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1132 · Filter by author r4mek opened on Aug 17, 2026

• Code cleanup for drain

  area/robustnesskind/cleanupkind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1128 · Filter by author r4mek opened on Jul 30, 2026
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• Introduce additional integration tests

  area/testingkind/enhancementkind/testpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1123 · Filter by author aaronfern opened on Jul 27, 2026
  

• Introduce Simulation Provider for integration testing

  area/testingkind/enhancement
  Feature

  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1120 · Filter by author takoverflow opened on Jul 21, 2026
  

• Integration Tests for In-Place Update, Machine Preservation and Execute IT for MCM using virtual provider

  area/control-planekind/enhancementkind/taskkind/testpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1116 · Filter by author elankath opened on Jul 7, 2026

• Emit candidate-for-update / selected-for-update labels in RollingUpdate (parity with InPlaceUpdate)

  area/control-planekind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1113 · Filter by author afritzler opened on Jun 29, 2026
  1

• Introduce Machine Maintenance phase affecting health-check/rolling-update/inplace-update

  area/control-planekind/enhancementpriority/3size/XL
  Feature

  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1112 · Filter by author elankath opened on Jun 26, 2026
  1

• Ability for shoot user to reboot a Node's backing VM Instance

  area/control-planekind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1106 · Filter by author elankath opened on May 28, 2026
  1

• Add configurable option to skip node drain during in-place updates in MachineDeployment

  area/performancearea/scalabilitykind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1105 · Filter by author acumino opened on May 27, 2026

• Replace the ahmetb/gen-crd-api-reference-docs with elastic/crd-ref-docs in all MCM repos

  area/documentationkind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1099 · Filter by author thiyyakat opened on May 7, 2026
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• MachineSet controller overshoots desired replica count during large scale-ups, causing orphan nodes

  area/robustnesskind/bugpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1091 · Filter by author gagan16k opened on Apr 3, 2026
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• Parallel volume unmounting during rolling & in-place node update

  area/high-availabilityarea/performancearea/storagekind/enhancementkind/impedimentpriority/2
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1088 · Filter by author henningzahn opened on Mar 18, 2026
  2

• Machine is stuck at Terminating

  kind/bugpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1079 · Filter by author yinkun111 opened on Feb 27, 2026
  3

• Missing "name" label brakes rate limiting in canMarkMachineFailed function

  area/control-planearea/robustnesskind/bugpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1077 · Filter by author v1dusss opened on Feb 26, 2026
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• Support label-based update flow in any strategy

  area/control-planearea/ops-productivitykind/enhancementpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1076 · Filter by author defo89 opened on Feb 20, 2026
  4

• Deletion of Machine+associated VM/Node should not hang if corresponding MachineClass is not found

  area/robustnesskind/bugpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1061 · Filter by author elankath opened on Dec 17, 2025
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• Support HotUpdate of Machines for Provider specific Hot-Updateable fields on the MachineClass

  area/usabilitykind/enhancementlifecycle/rottenpriority/3
  gardener/machine-controller-manager#1060 · Filter by author elankath opened on Dec 16, 2025
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