Repository: kubernetes-sigs/kueue

Issue:
ElasticJobs clean up integration test
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**What would you like to be cleaned**:
Update log verbosity and remove "debug" helper introduced in #7068

**Why is this needed**:
This the follow up to: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/pull/7068#pullrequestreview-3283101407

Discussion:
@ichekrygin: /assign

Solution patch:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.12.md b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.12.md
index 57c1f137e..f90dc2358 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.12.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.12.md
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+## v0.12.10
+
+Changes since `v0.12.9`:
+
+## Changes by Kind
+
+### Bug or Regression
+
+- FS: Validate FairSharing.Weight against small values which lose precision (0 < value <= 10^-9) (#7007, @gabesaba)
+- Fix the bug for the StatefulSet integration which would occasionally cause a StatefulSet
+  to be stuck without workload after renaming the "queue-name" label. (#7038, @IrvingMg)
+- Fix the bug that a workload going repeatedly via the preemption and re-admission cycle would accumulate the
+  "Previously" prefix in the condition message, eg: "Previously: Previously: Previously: Preempted to accommodate a workload ...". (#6875, @amy)
+- Fixed bug where internal cert manager assumed that the helm installation name was kueue. (#6916, @cmtly)
+- Helm: Fixed bug where webhook configurations assumed a helm install name as "kueue". (#6923, @cmtly)
+- Pod-integration now correctly handles pods stuck in the Terminating state within pod groups, preventing them from being counted as active and avoiding blocked quota release. (#6893, @ichekrygin)
+
 ## v0.12.9
 
 Changes since `v0.12.8`:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.13.md b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.13.md
index 3f1648681..bfb533775 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.13.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.13.md
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+## v0.13.5
+
+Changes since `v0.13.4`:
+
+## Changes by Kind
+
+### Feature
+
+- KueueViz: Enhancing the following endpoint customizations and optimizations:
+    - The frontend and backend ingress no longer have hardcoded NGINX annotations. You can now set your own annotations in Helm’s values.yaml using kueueViz.backend.ingress.annotations and kueueViz.frontend.ingress.annotations
+    - The Ingress resources for KueueViz frontend and backend no longer require hardcoded TLS. You can now choose to use HTTP only by not providing kueueViz.backend.ingress.tlsSecretName and kueueViz.frontend.ingress.tlsSecretName
+    - You can set environment variables like KUEUEVIZ_ALLOWED_ORIGINS directly from values.yaml using kueueViz.backend.env (#6934, @Smuger)
+
+### Bug or Regression
+
+- ElasticJobs: workloads correctly trigger workload preemption in response to a scale-up event. (#6973, @ichekrygin)
+- FS: Fix the following FairSharing bugs:
+    - Incorrect DominantResourceShare caused by rounding (large quotas or high FairSharing weight)
+    - Preemption loop caused by zero FairSharing weight (#6994, @gabesaba)
+- FS: Validate FairSharing.Weight against small values which lose precision (0 < value <= 10^-9) (#7008, @gabesaba)
+- Fix bug in workload usage removal simulation that results in inaccurate flavor assignment (#7084, @gabesaba)
+- Fix the bug for the StatefulSet integration which would occasionally cause a StatefulSet
+  to be stuck without workload after renaming the "queue-name" label. (#7037, @IrvingMg)
+- Fix the bug that a workload going repeatedly via the preemption and re-admission cycle would accumulate the
+  "Previously" prefix in the condition message, eg: "Previously: Previously: Previously: Preempted to accommodate a workload ...". (#6874, @amy)
+- HC: When multiple borrowing flavors are available, prefer the flavor which
+  results in borrowing more locally (closer to the ClusterQueue, further from the root Cohort).
+
+  This fixes the scenario where a flavor would be selected which required borrowing
+  from the root Cohort in one flavor, while in a second flavor, quota was
+  available from the nearest parent Cohort. (#7042, @gabesaba)
+- Helm: Fix a bug where the internal cert manager assumed that the helm installation name is 'kueue'. (#6917, @cmtly)
+- Helm: Fixed bug where webhook configurations assumed a helm install name as "kueue". (#6924, @cmtly)
+- Pod-integration now correctly handles pods stuck in the Terminating state within pod groups, preventing them from being counted as active and avoiding blocked quota release. (#6892, @ichekrygin)
+- TAS: Fix the scenario when Node Hot Swap cannot find a replacement. In particular, if slices are used
+  they could result in generating invalid assignment, resulting in panic from TopologyUngater.
+  Now, such a workload is evicted. (#6927, @mbobrovskyi)
+- TAS: Node Hot Swap allows replacing a node for workloads using PodSet slices,
+  ie. when the `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-slice-size` annotation is used. (#6989, @pajakd)
+
 ## v0.13.4
 
 Changes since `v0.13.3`:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.14.md b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.14.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..628798420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-0.14.md
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+Changes since `v0.13.0`:
+
+## Urgent Upgrade Notes 
+
+### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)
+
+- ProvisioningRequest: Remove setting deprecated ProvisioningRequest annotations on Kueue-managed Pods:
+  - cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/consume-provisioning-request
+  - cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/provisioning-class-name
+  
+  If you are implementing a ProvisioningRequest reconciler used by Kueue you should
+  make sure the new annotations are supported:
+  - autoscaling.x-k8s.io/consume-provisioning-request
+  - autoscaling.x-k8s.io/provisioning-class-name (#6381, @kannon92)
+ - Rename kueue-metrics-certs to kueue-metrics-cert cert-manager.io/v1 Certificate name in cert-manager manifests when installing Kueue using the Kustomize configuration.
+  
+  If you're using cert-manager and have deployed Kueue using the Kustomize configuration, you must delete the existing kueue-metrics-certs cert-manager.io/v1 Certificate before applying the new changes to avoid conflicts. (#6345, @mbobrovskyi)
+ - Replace "DeactivatedXYZ" "reason" label values with "Deactivated" and introduce "underlying_cause" label to the following metrics:
+  - "pods_ready_to_evicted_time_seconds"
+  - "evicted_workloads_total"
+  - "local_queue_evicted_workloads_total"
+  - "evicted_workloads_once_total"
+  
+  If you rely on the "DeactivatedXYZ" "reason" label values, you can migrate to the "Deactivated" "reason" label value and the following "underlying_cause" label values:
+  - ""
+  - "WaitForStart"
+  - "WaitForRecovery"
+  - "AdmissionCheck"
+  - "MaximumExecutionTimeExceeded"
+  - "RequeuingLimitExceeded" (#6590, @mykysha)
+ - TAS: Enforce a stricter value of the `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-group-name` annotation in the creation webhook.
+  
+  Make sure the values of the `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-group-name` annotation are not numbers.` (#6708, @kshalot)
+ 
+## Upgrading steps
+
+### 1. Back Up Topology Resources (skip if you are not using Topology API):
+
+kubectl get topologies.kueue.x-k8s.io -o yaml > topologies.yaml
+
+### 2. Update apiVersion in Backup File (skip if not using Topology API):
+Replace `v1alpha1` with `v1beta1` in topologies.yaml for all resources:
+
+sed -i -e 's/v1alpha1/v1beta1/g' topologies.yaml
+
+### 3. Delete Old CRDs:
+
+kubectl delete crd topologies.kueue.x-k8s.io
+
+### 4. Remove Finalizers from Topologies (skip if you are not using Topology API):
+
+kubectl get topology.kueue.x-k8s.io -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' | while read -r name; do
+  kubectl patch topology.kueue.x-k8s.io "$name" -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":[]}}' --type='merge'
+done
+
+### 5. Install Kueue v0.14.0:
+Follow the instructions [here](https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/installation/#install-a-released-version) to install.
+
+### 6. Restore Topology Resources (skip if not using Topology API):
+
+kubectl apply -f topologies.yaml
+
+## Changes by Kind
+
+### Deprecation
+
+- Stop serving the QueueVisibility feature, but keep APIs (`.status.pendingWorkloadsStatus`) to avoid breaking changes.
+  
+  If you rely on the QueueVisibility feature (`.status.pendingWorkloadsStatus` in the ClusterQueue), you must migrate to VisibilityOndDemand 
+  (https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/tasks/manage/monitor_pending_workloads/pending_workloads_on_demand). (#6631, @vladikkuzn)
+
+### API Change
+
+- TAS: Graduated TopologyAwareScheduling to Beta. (#6830, @mbobrovskyi)
+- TAS: Support multiple nodes for failure handling by ".status.unhealthyNodes" in Workload. The "alpha.kueue.x-k8s.io/node-to-replace" annotation is no longer used (#6648, @pajakd)
+
+### Feature
+
+- Add an alpha integration for Kubeflow Trainer to Kueue. (#6597, @kaisoz)
+- Add an exponential backoff for the TAS scheduler second pass. (#6753, @mykysha)
+- Added priority_class label for kueue_local_queue_admitted_workloads_total metric. (#6845, @vladikkuzn)
+- Added priority_class label for kueue_local_queue_evicted_workloads_total metric (#6898, @vladikkuzn)
+- Added priority_class label for kueue_local_queue_quota_reserved_workloads_total metric. (#6897, @vladikkuzn)
+- Added priority_class label for the following metrics:
+  - kueue_admitted_workloads_total
+  - kueue_evicted_workloads_total
+  - kueue_evicted_workloads_once_total
+  - kueue_quota_reserved_workloads_total
+  - kueue_admission_wait_time_seconds
+  - kueue_quota_reserved_wait_time_seconds
+  - kueue_admission_checks_wait_time_seconds (#6951, @mbobrovskyi)
+- Added priority_class to kueue_local_queue_admission_checks_wait_time_seconds (#6902, @vladikkuzn)
+- Added priority_class to kueue_local_queue_admission_wait_time_seconds (#6899, @vladikkuzn)
+- Added priority_class to kueue_local_queue_quota_reserved_wait_time_seconds (#6900, @vladikkuzn)
+- Added workload_priority_class label for optional metrics (if waitForPodsReady is enabled):
+  
+  - kueue_ready_wait_time_seconds (Histogram)
+  - kueue_admitted_until_ready_wait_time_seconds (Histogram)
+  - kueue_local_queue_ready_wait_time_seconds (Histogram)
+  - kueue_local_queue_admitted_until_ready_wait_time_seconds (Histogram) (#6944, @IrvingMg)
+- DRA: Alpha support for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kueue. (#5873, @alaypatel07)
+- ElasticJobs: Support in-tree RayAutoscaler for RayCluster (#6662, @VassilisVassiliadis)
+- KueueViz: Enhancing the following endpoint customizations and optimizations:
+  - The frontend and backend ingress no longer have hardcoded NGINX annotations. You can now set your own annotations in Helm’s values.yaml using kueueViz.backend.ingress.annotations and kueueViz.frontend.ingress.annotations
+  - The Ingress resources for KueueViz frontend and backend no longer require hardcoded TLS. You can now choose to use HTTP only by not providing kueueViz.backend.ingress.tlsSecretName and kueueViz.frontend.ingress.tlsSecretName
+  - You can set environment variables like KUEUEVIZ_ALLOWED_ORIGINS directly from values.yaml using kueueViz.backend.env (#6682, @Smuger)
+- MultiKueue: Support external frameworks.
+  Introduced a generic MultiKueue adapter to support external, custom Job-like workloads. This allows users to integrate custom Job-like CRDs (e.g., Tekton PipelineRuns) with MultiKueue for resource management across multiple clusters. This feature is guarded by the `MultiKueueGenericJobAdapter` feature gate. (#6760, @khrm)
+- Multikueue × ElasticJobs: The elastic `batchv1/Job` supports MultiKueue. (#6445, @ichekrygin)
+- ProvisioningRequest: Graduate ProvisioningACC feature to GA (#6382, @kannon92)
+- TAS: Graduated to Beta the following feature gates responsible for enabling and default configuration of the Node Hot Swap mechanism: 
+  TASFailedNodeReplacement, TASFailedNodeReplacementFailFast, TASReplaceNodeOnPodTermination. (#6890, @mbobrovskyi)
+- TAS: Implicit mode schedules consecutive indexes as close as possible (rank-ordering). (#6615, @PBundyra)
+- TAS: introduce validation against using PodSet grouping and PodSet slicing for the same PodSet, 
+  which is currently not supported. More precisely the `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-group-name` annotation
+  cannot be set along with any of: `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-slice-size`, `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-slice-required-topology`. (#7051, @kshalot)
+- The following limits for ClusterQueue quota specification have been relaxed:
+  - the number of Flavors per ResourceGroup is increased from 16 to 64
+  - the number of Resources per Flavor, within a ResourceGroup, is increased from 16 to 64
+  
+  We also provide the following additional limits:
+  - the total number of Flavors across all ResourceGroups is <= 256
+  - the total number of Resources across all ResourceGroups is <= 256
+  - the total number of (Flavor, Resource) pairs within a ResourceGroup is <= 512 (#6906, @LarsSven)
+- Visibility API: Adds support for Securing APIService. (#6798, @MaysaMacedo)
+- WorkloadRequestUseMergePatch: allows switching the Status Patch type from Apply to Merge for admission-related patches. (#6765, @mszadkow)
+
+### Bug or Regression
+
+- AFS: Fixed kueue-controller-manager crash when enabled AdmissionFairSharing feature gate without AdmissionFairSharing config. (#6670, @mbobrovskyi)
+- ElasticJobs: Fix the bug for the ElasticJobsViaWorkloadSlices feature where in case of Job resize followed by eviction
+  of the "old" workload, the newly created workload could get admitted along with the "old" workload.
+  The two workloads would overcommit the quota. (#6221, @ichekrygin)
+- ElasticJobs: Fix the bug that scheduling of the Pending workloads was not triggered on scale-down of the running 
+  elastic Job which could result in admitting one or more of the queued workloads. (#6395, @ichekrygin)
+- ElasticJobs: workloads correctly trigger workload preemption in response to a scale-up event. (#6973, @ichekrygin)
+- FS: Fix the algorithm bug for identifying preemption candidates, as it could return a different
+  set of preemption target workloads (pseudo random) in consecutive attempts in tie-break scenarios,
+  resulting in excessive preemptions. (#6764, @PBundyra)
+- FS: Fix the following FairSharing bugs:
+  - Incorrect DominantResourceShare caused by rounding (large quotas or high FairSharing weight)
+  - Preemption loop caused by zero FairSharing weight (#6925, @gabesaba)
+- FS: Fixing a bug where a preemptor ClusterQueue was unable to reclaim its nominal quota when the preemptee ClusterQueue can borrow a large number of resources from the parent ClusterQueue / Cohort (#6617, @pajakd)
+- FS: Validate FairSharing.Weight against small values which lose precision (0 < value <= 10^-9) (#6986, @gabesaba)
+- Fix accounting for the `evicted_workloads_once_total` metric:
+  - the metric wasn't incremented for workloads evicted due to stopped LocalQueue (LocalQueueStopped reason)
+  - the reason used for the metric was "Deactivated" for workloads deactivated by users and Kueue, now the reason label can have the following values: Deactivated, DeactivatedDueToAdmissionCheck, DeactivatedDueToMaximumExecutionTimeExceeded, DeactivatedDueToRequeuingLimitExceeded. This approach aligns the metric with `evicted_workloads_total`.
+  - the metric was incremented during preemption before the preemption request was issued. Thus, it could be incorrectly over-counted in case of the preemption request failure.
+  - the metric was not incremented for workload evicted due to NodeFailures (TAS)
+  
+  The existing and introduced DeactivatedDueToXYZ reason label values will be replaced by the single "Deactivated" reason label value and underlying_cause in the future release. (#6332, @mimowo)
+- Fix bug in workload usage removal simulation that results in inaccurate flavor assignment (#7077, @gabesaba)
+- Fix support for PodGroup integration used by external controllers, which determine the 
+  the target LocalQueue and the group size only later. In that case the hash would not be 
+  computed resulting in downstream issues for ProvisioningRequest.
+  
+  Now such an external controller can indicate the control over the PodGroup by adding
+  the `kueue.x-k8s.io/pod-suspending-parent` annotation, and later patch the Pods by setting
+  other metadata, like the kueue.x-k8s.io/queue-name label to initiate scheduling of the PodGroup. (#6286, @pawloch00)
+- Fix the bug for the StatefulSet integration which would occasionally cause a StatefulSet
+  to be stuck without workload after renaming the "queue-name" label. (#7028, @IrvingMg)
+- Fix the bug that a workload going repeatedly via the preemption and re-admission cycle would accumulate the
+  "Previously" prefix in the condition message, eg: "Previously: Previously: Previously: Preempted to accommodate a workload ...". (#6819, @amy)
+- Fix the bug which could occasionally cause workloads evicted by the built-in AdmissionChecks
+  (ProvisioningRequest and MultiKueue) to get stuck in the evicted state which didn't allow re-scheduling.
+  This could happen when the AdmissionCheck controller would trigger eviction by setting the
+  Admission check state to "Retry". (#6283, @mimowo)
+- Fix the validation messages when attempting to remove the queue-name label from a Deployment or StatefulSet. (#6715, @Panlq)
+- Fixed a bug that prevented adding the kueue- prefix to the secretName field in cert-manager manifests when installing Kueue using the Kustomize configuration. (#6318, @mbobrovskyi)
+- HC: When multiple borrowing flavors are available, prefer the flavor which
+  results in borrowing more locally (closer to the ClusterQueue, further from the root Cohort).
+  
+  This fixes the scenario where a flavor would be selected which required borrowing
+  from the root Cohort in one flavor, while in a second flavor, quota was
+  available from the nearest parent Cohort. (#7024, @gabesaba)
+- Helm: Fix a bug where the internal cert manager assumed that the helm installation name is 'kueue'. (#6869, @cmtly)
+- Helm: Fixed a bug preventing Kueue from starting after installing via Helm with a release name other than "kueue" (#6799, @mbobrovskyi)
+- Helm: Fixed bug where webhook configurations assumed a helm install name as "kueue". (#6918, @cmtly)
+- KueueViz: Fix CORS configuration for development environments (#6603, @yankay)
+- KueueViz: Fix a bug that only localhost is an executable domain. (#7011, @kincl)
+- Pod-integration now correctly handles pods stuck in the Terminating state within pod groups, preventing them from being counted as active and avoiding blocked quota release. (#6872, @ichekrygin)
+- ProvisioningRequest: Fix a bug that Kueue didn't recreate the next ProvisioningRequest instance after the
+  second (and consecutive) failed attempt. (#6322, @PBundyra)
+- Support disabling client-side ratelimiting in Config API clientConnection.qps with a negative value (e.g., -1) (#6300, @tenzen-y)
+- TAS: Fix a bug that the node failure controller tries to re-schedule Pods on the failure node even after the Node is recovered and reappears (#6325, @pajakd)
+- TAS: Fix a bug where new Workloads starve, caused by inadmissible workloads frequently requeueing due to unrelated Node LastHeartbeatTime update events. (#6570, @utam0k)
+- TAS: Fix the scenario when Node Hot Swap cannot find a replacement. In particular, if slices are used
+  they could result in generating invalid assignment, resulting in panic from TopologyUngater.
+  Now, such a workload is evicted. (#6914, @PBundyra)
+- TAS: Node Hot Swap allows replacing a node for workloads using PodSet slices, 
+  ie. when the `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-slice-size` annotation is used. (#6942, @pajakd)
+- TAS: fix the bug that Kueue is crashing when PodSet has size 0, eg. no workers in LeaderWorkerSet instance. (#6501, @mimowo)
+
+### Other (Cleanup or Flake)
+
+- Promote ConfigurableResourceTransformations feature gate to stable. (#6599, @mbobrovskyi)
+- Support for Kubernetes 1.34 (#6689, @mbobrovskyi)
+- TAS: stop setting the "kueue.x-k8s.io/tas" label on Pods. 
+  
+  In case the implicit TAS mode is used, then the `kueue.x-k8s.io/podset-unconstrained-topology=true` annotation
+  is set on Pods. (#6895, @mimowo)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index eca5e7c06..a41fd1604 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ LD_FLAGS += -X '$(version_pkg).BuildDate=$(shell date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'
 
 # Update these variables when preparing a new release or a release branch.
 # Then run `make prepare-release-branch`
-RELEASE_VERSION=v0.13.4
+RELEASE_VERSION=v0.14.0
 RELEASE_BRANCH=main
 # Application version for Helm and npm (strips leading 'v' from RELEASE_VERSION)
 APP_VERSION := $(shell echo $(RELEASE_VERSION) | cut -c2-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 49290537b..a28d14399 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Read the [overview](https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/overview/) and watch the Kueu
 To install the latest release of Kueue in your cluster, run the following command:
 
 ```shell
-kubectl apply --server-side -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.13.4/manifests.yaml
+kubectl apply --server-side -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.14.0/manifests.yaml
 ```
 
 The controller runs in the `kueue-system` namespace.
diff --git a/SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yaml b/SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yaml
index 0e8349aa3..acbf1cbf0 100644
--- a/SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yaml
+++ b/SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 header:
   schema-version: 1.0.0
   expiration-date: '2024-09-28T01:00:00.000Z'
-  last-updated: '2025-09-12'
-  last-reviewed: '2025-09-12'
-  commit-hash: "07ffcfc19fe9c83698a160df1b523b379f45db97"
+  last-updated: '2025-09-30'
+  last-reviewed: '2025-09-30'
+  commit-hash: "431c2e538b87319c838e3a993dfeec2b077f8fa2"
   project-url: 'https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue'
-  project-release: "0.13.4"
+  project-release: "0.14.0"
   changelog: 'https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/tree/main/CHANGELOG'
   license: 'https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/blob/main/LICENSE'
 project-lifecycle:
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ documentation:
   - 'https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/'
 distribution-points:
   - >-
-    https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.13.4/manifests.yaml
+    https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.14.0/manifests.yaml
 security-artifacts:
   threat-model:
     threat-model-created: false
@@ -62,5 +62,5 @@ dependencies:
   dependencies-lists:
     - 'https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/blob/main/go.mod'
   sbom:
-    - sbom-file: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.13.4/kueue-v0.13.4.spdx.json
+    - sbom-file: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.14.0/kueue-v0.14.0.spdx.json
       sbom-format: SPDX
diff --git a/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml b/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml
index 31ed82945..5047319b4 100644
--- a/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/kueue/Chart.yaml
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ type: application
 # NOTE: Do not modify manually. In Kueue, the version and appVersion are
 # overridden to GIT_TAG when building the artifacts, including the helm charts,
 # via Makefile.
-version: 0.13.4
+version: 0.14.0
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
 # follow Semantic Versioning. They should reflect the version the application is using.
 # It is recommended to use it with quotes.
-appVersion: "v0.13.4"
+appVersion: "v0.14.0"
diff --git a/charts/kueue/README.md b/charts/kueue/README.md
index f6694fa3b..f943d14a2 100644
--- a/charts/kueue/README.md
+++ b/charts/kueue/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # kueue
 
-![Version: 0.13.4](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.13.4-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: v0.13.4](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-v0.13.4-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 0.14.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.14.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: v0.14.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-v0.14.0-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 Kueue is a set of APIs and controllers for job queueing. It is a job-level manager that decides when a job should be admitted to start (as in pods can be created) and when it should stop (as in active pods should be deleted).
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ $ helm install kueue kueue/ --create-namespace --namespace kueue-system
 Or use the charts pushed to `oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue`:
 
 ```bash
-helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system
+helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.14.0" --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system
 ```
 
 For more advanced parametrization of Kueue, we recommend using a local overrides file, passed via the `--values` flag. For example:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ controllerManager:
 ```
 
 ```bash
-helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" \
+helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.14.0" \
   --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system \
   --values overrides.yaml
 ```
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" \
 You can also use the `--set` flag. For example, to enable a feature gate (e.g., `TopologyAwareScheduling`):
 
 ```bash
-helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" \
+helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.14.0" \
   --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system \
   --set "controllerManager.featureGates[0].name=TopologyAwareScheduling" \
   --set "controllerManager.featureGates[0].enabled=true"
diff --git a/charts/kueue/README.md.gotmpl b/charts/kueue/README.md.gotmpl
index c3f139823..e5dda8bd2 100644
--- a/charts/kueue/README.md.gotmpl
+++ b/charts/kueue/README.md.gotmpl
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ $ helm install kueue kueue/ --create-namespace --namespace kueue-system
 Or use the charts pushed to `oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue`:
 
 ```bash
-helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system
+helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.14.0" --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system
 ```
 
 For more advanced parametrization of Kueue, we recommend using a local overrides file, passed via the `--values` flag. For example:
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ controllerManager:
 ```
 
 ```bash
-helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" \
+helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.14.0" \
   --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system \
   --values overrides.yaml
 ```
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" \
 You can also use the `--set` flag. For example, to enable a feature gate (e.g., `TopologyAwareScheduling`):
 
 ```bash
-helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.13.4" \
+helm install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue --version="0.14.0" \
   --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system \
   --set "controllerManager.featureGates[0].name=TopologyAwareScheduling" \
   --set "controllerManager.featureGates[0].enabled=true"
diff --git a/cmd/kueueviz/INSTALL.md b/cmd/kueueviz/INSTALL.md
index 6b6787ac0..500208a85 100644
--- a/cmd/kueueviz/INSTALL.md
+++ b/cmd/kueueviz/INSTALL.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 KueueViz can be installed using `kubectl` with the following command:
 
 ```
-kubectl create -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.13.4/kueueviz.yaml
+kubectl create -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue/releases/download/v0.14.0/kueueviz.yaml
 ```
 If you are using `kind` and that you don't have an `ingress` controller, you can use `port-forward` to 
 configure and run `KueueViz`:
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ by ensuring that `enableKueueViz` is set to `true`:
 
 ```
 helm upgrade --install kueue oci://registry.k8s.io/kueue/charts/kueue \
-  --version="0.13.4"
+  --version="0.14.0"
   --namespace kueue-system \
   --set enableKueueViz=true \
   --create-namespace
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ kind create cluster
 kind get kubeconfig > kubeconfig
 export KUBECONFIG=$PWD/kubeconfig
 helm install kueue oci://us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/k8s-staging-images/charts/kueue \
-            --version="0.13.4" --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system
+            --version="0.14.0" --create-namespace --namespace=kueue-system
 ```
 
 ## Build
diff --git a/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package-lock.json b/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package-lock.json
index bc57fc689..ea78ada22 100644
--- a/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package-lock.json
+++ b/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "kueueviz-frontend",
-  "version": "0.13.4",
+  "version": "0.14.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "kueueviz-frontend",
-      "version": "0.13.4",
+      "version": "0.14.0",
       "license": "Apache 2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@emotion/react": "^11.14.0",
diff --git a/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package.json b/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package.json
index 872efd84b..da9f0add1 100644
--- a/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package.json
+++ b/cmd/kueueviz/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "kueueviz-frontend",
-  "version": "0.13.4",
+  "version": "0.14.0",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Frontend dashboard for visualizing Kueue status",
   "main": "src/index.jsx",
diff --git a/site/hugo.toml b/site/hugo.toml
index 4e6fa1fcc..bbc1bb3ef 100644
--- a/site/hugo.toml
+++ b/site/hugo.toml
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ ignoreFiles = []
   # The major.minor version tag for the version of the docs represented in this
   # branch of the repository. Used in the "version-banner" partial to display a
   # version number for this doc set.
-  version = "v0.13.4"
+  version = "v0.14.0"
 
   # Version of Kueue without the leading "v", as used for Helm charts.
-  chart_version = "0.13.4"
+  chart_version = "0.14.0"
 
   # Flag used in the "version-banner" partial to decide whether to display a
   # banner on every page indicating that this is an archived version of the docs.



Test patch:
diff --git a/test/e2e/customconfigs/reconcile_test.go b/test/e2e/customconfigs/reconcile_test.go
index 135cbe8bf..0c08a05ab 100644
--- a/test/e2e/customconfigs/reconcile_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/customconfigs/reconcile_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package customconfigse2e
 import (
 	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
 	"github.com/onsi/gomega"
+	batchv1 "k8s.io/api/batch/v1"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
@@ -88,53 +89,59 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("Job reconciliation with ManagedJobsNamespaceSelectorAlw
 		util.ExpectObjectToBeDeletedWithTimeout(ctx, k8sClient, rf, true, util.LongTimeout)
 	})
 
-	ginkgo.It("should not reconcile a job in the default (unmanaged) namespace", func() {
-		job := testingjob.MakeJob("unmanaged-job", metav1.NamespaceDefault).
-			Queue(kueue.LocalQueueName(lq.Name)).
-			Suspend(true).
-			Image(util.GetAgnHostImage(), util.BehaviorExitFast).
-			Obj()
+	ginkgo.When("Testing namespace selector behavior", func() {
+		var (
+			testJob *batchv1.Job
+			testPod *corev1.Pod
+		)
 
-		gomega.Expect(k8sClient.Create(ctx, job)).To(gomega.Succeed())
-		ginkgo.DeferCleanup(func() {
-			util.ExpectObjectToBeDeleted(ctx, k8sClient, job, true)
+		ginkgo.AfterEach(func() {
+			util.ExpectObjectToBeDeleted(ctx, k8sClient, testJob, true)
+			util.ExpectObjectToBeDeleted(ctx, k8sClient, testPod, true)
 		})
 
-		wls := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
-		gomega.Expect(k8sClient.List(ctx, wls, client.InNamespace(metav1.NamespaceDefault))).To(gomega.Succeed())
-		gomega.Expect(wls.Items).To(gomega.BeEmpty(), "Expected no workload in unmanaged namespace")
-	})
-
-	ginkgo.It("should reconcile a job in managed namespace and create a workload", func() {
-		job := testingjob.MakeJob("managed-job", ns.Name).
-			Queue(kueue.LocalQueueName(lq.Name)).
-			Suspend(true).
-			Image(util.GetAgnHostImage(), util.BehaviorExitFast).
-			Obj()
+		ginkgo.It("should not reconcile a job in the default (unmanaged) namespace", func() {
+			testJob = testingjob.MakeJob("unmanaged-job", metav1.NamespaceDefault).
+				Queue(kueue.LocalQueueName(lq.Name)).
+				Suspend(true).
+				Image(util.GetAgnHostImage(), util.BehaviorExitFast).
+				Obj()
 
-		gomega.Expect(k8sClient.Create(ctx, job)).To(gomega.Succeed())
+			gomega.Expect(k8sClient.Create(ctx, testJob)).To(gomega.Succeed())
 
-		ginkgo.By("check that only one workload is created", func() {
-			createdWorkloads := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
-			gomega.Eventually(func(g gomega.Gomega) {
-				g.Expect(k8sClient.List(ctx, createdWorkloads, client.InNamespace(ns.Name))).To(gomega.Succeed())
-				g.Expect(createdWorkloads.Items).To(gomega.HaveLen(1))
-			}, util.Timeout, util.Interval).Should(gomega.Succeed())
+			wls := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
+			gomega.Expect(k8sClient.List(ctx, wls, client.InNamespace(metav1.NamespaceDefault))).To(gomega.Succeed())
+			gomega.Expect(wls.Items).To(gomega.BeEmpty(), "Expected no workload in unmanaged namespace")
 		})
-	})
 
-	ginkgo.It("Verify existing behavior - should not reconcile a pod in the default (unmanaged) namespace", func() {
-		testPod := testingpod.MakePod("test-pod", metav1.NamespaceDefault).
-			Queue(lq.Name).
-			Image(util.GetAgnHostImage(), util.BehaviorWaitForDeletion).
-			Obj()
-		gomega.Expect(k8sClient.Create(ctx, testPod)).To(gomega.Succeed())
-		ginkgo.DeferCleanup(func() {
-			util.ExpectObjectToBeDeleted(ctx, k8sClient, testPod, true)
+		ginkgo.It("should reconcile a job in managed namespace and create a workload", func() {
+			testJob = testingjob.MakeJob("managed-job", ns.Name).
+				Queue(kueue.LocalQueueName(lq.Name)).
+				Suspend(true).
+				Image(util.GetAgnHostImage(), util.BehaviorExitFast).
+				Obj()
+
+			gomega.Expect(k8sClient.Create(ctx, testJob)).To(gomega.Succeed())
+
+			ginkgo.By("check that only one workload is created", func() {
+				createdWorkloads := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
+				gomega.Eventually(func(g gomega.Gomega) {
+					g.Expect(k8sClient.List(ctx, createdWorkloads, client.InNamespace(ns.Name))).To(gomega.Succeed())
+					g.Expect(createdWorkloads.Items).To(gomega.HaveLen(1))
+				}, util.Timeout, util.Interval).Should(gomega.Succeed())
+			})
 		})
 
-		wls := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
-		gomega.Expect(k8sClient.List(ctx, wls, client.InNamespace(metav1.NamespaceDefault))).To(gomega.Succeed())
-		gomega.Expect(wls.Items).To(gomega.BeEmpty(), "Expected no workload for pod in unmanaged namespace")
+		ginkgo.It("should not reconcile a pod in the default (unmanaged) namespace", func() {
+			testPod = testingpod.MakePod("test-pod", metav1.NamespaceDefault).
+				Queue(lq.Name).
+				Image(util.GetAgnHostImage(), util.BehaviorWaitForDeletion).
+				Obj()
+			gomega.Expect(k8sClient.Create(ctx, testPod)).To(gomega.Succeed())
+
+			wls := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
+			gomega.Expect(k8sClient.List(ctx, wls, client.InNamespace(metav1.NamespaceDefault))).To(gomega.Succeed())
+			gomega.Expect(wls.Items).To(gomega.BeEmpty(), "Expected no workload for pod in unmanaged namespace")
+		})
 	})
 })
diff --git a/test/e2e/kueueviz/package-lock.json b/test/e2e/kueueviz/package-lock.json
index 16478813b..33e3b53af 100644
--- a/test/e2e/kueueviz/package-lock.json
+++ b/test/e2e/kueueviz/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "kueueviz-frontend-tests",
-  "version": "0.13.4",
+  "version": "0.14.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "kueueviz-frontend-tests",
-      "version": "0.13.4",
+      "version": "0.14.0",
       "devDependencies": {
         "@testing-library/cypress": "^10.1.0",
         "cypress": "^15.3.0",
diff --git a/test/e2e/kueueviz/package.json b/test/e2e/kueueviz/package.json
index e77318e7c..206ab1607 100644
--- a/test/e2e/kueueviz/package.json
+++ b/test/e2e/kueueviz/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "kueueviz-frontend-tests",
-  "version": "0.13.4",
+  "version": "0.14.0",
   "scripts": {
     "cypress:run": "cypress run --headless",
     "check-unused": "depcheck"
diff --git a/test/integration/multikueue/jobs_test.go b/test/integration/multikueue/jobs_test.go
index 7e2664a42..a6e0e76c7 100644
--- a/test/integration/multikueue/jobs_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/multikueue/jobs_test.go
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ import (
 
 	config "sigs.k8s.io/kueue/apis/config/v1beta1"
 	kueue "sigs.k8s.io/kueue/apis/kueue/v1beta1"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kueue/pkg/controller/constants"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kueue/pkg/controller/jobframework"
 	workloadappwrapper "sigs.k8s.io/kueue/pkg/controller/jobs/appwrapper"
 	workloadjob "sigs.k8s.io/kueue/pkg/controller/jobs/job"
@@ -1728,8 +1727,6 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("MultiKueue", ginkgo.Ordered, ginkgo.ContinueOnFailure,
 		/*
 			Scale-up Section
 		*/
-		ginkgo.By("DEBUG Before Scale")
-		debugAll(job.Namespace)
 
 		ginkgo.By("scale-up the job", func() {
 			getJob(manager.ctx, manager.client, job)
@@ -1739,18 +1736,12 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("MultiKueue", ginkgo.Ordered, ginkgo.ContinueOnFailure,
 			}, util.Timeout, util.Interval).Should(gomega.Succeed())
 		})
 
-		ginkgo.By("DEBUG After Scale")
-		debugAll(job.Namespace)
-
 		ginkgo.By("observe: a new workload slice is created")
 		newWorkloadKey := getWorkloadKey(job)
 		gomega.Eventually(func(g gomega.Gomega) {
 			getWorkload(g, manager.ctx, manager.client, newWorkloadKey)
 		}, util.Timeout, util.Interval).Should(gomega.Succeed())
 
-		ginkgo.By("DEBUG After new slice created")
-		debugAll(job.Namespace)
-
 		ginkgo.By("copy clusterName from the old workload to the new workload", func() {
 			oldWorkload := getWorkload(gomega.Default, manager.ctx, manager.client, workloadKey)
 			newWorkload := getWorkload(gomega.Default, manager.ctx, manager.client, newWorkloadKey)
@@ -1764,9 +1755,6 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("MultiKueue", ginkgo.Ordered, ginkgo.ContinueOnFailure,
 			gomega.Expect(newWorkload.Status.ClusterName).Should(gomega.BeEquivalentTo(oldWorkload.Status.ClusterName))
 		})
 
-		ginkgo.By("DEBUG After new slice copy cluster name")
-		debugAll(job.Namespace)
-
 		ginkgo.By("admit the new workload and finish the old workload in the manager cluster", func() {
 			gomega.Eventually(func(g gomega.Gomega) {
 				oldWorkload := getWorkload(g, manager.ctx, manager.client, workloadKey)
@@ -1775,9 +1763,6 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("MultiKueue", ginkgo.Ordered, ginkgo.ContinueOnFailure,
 			util.SetQuotaReservation(manager.ctx, manager.client, newWorkloadKey, utiltesting.MakeAdmission(managerCq.Name).Obj())
 		})
 
-		ginkgo.By("DEBUG After new slice admission")
-		debugAll(job.Namespace)
-
 		ginkgo.By("observe: the new workload is created in the worker1 cluster")
 		gomega.Eventually(func(g gomega.Gomega) {
 			local := getWorkload(g, manager.ctx, manager.client, newWorkloadKey)
@@ -1794,9 +1779,6 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("MultiKueue", ginkgo.Ordered, ginkgo.ContinueOnFailure,
 			gomega.Expect(jobs.Items).To(gomega.BeEmpty())
 		})
 
-		ginkgo.By("DEBUG After new slice created on worker1")
-		debugAll(job.Namespace)
-
 		ginkgo.By("observe: the old workload is still admitted in the worker1 cluster", func() {
 			workload := getWorkload(gomega.Default, worker1.ctx, worker1.client, workloadKey)
 			util.ExpectWorkloadsToBeAdmitted(worker1.ctx, worker1.client, workload)
@@ -1929,34 +1911,6 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("MultiKueue", ginkgo.Ordered, ginkgo.ContinueOnFailure,
 	})
 })
 
-func debugAll(ns string) {
-	debug(ns, "MANAGER", managerTestCluster)
-	debug(ns, "WORKER1", worker1TestCluster)
-	debug(ns, "WORKER2", worker2TestCluster)
-}
-
-func debug(ns, clusterName string, c cluster) {
-	log := ginkgo.GinkgoLogr.WithName(clusterName)
-
-	jobs := &batchv1.JobList{}
-	gomega.Expect(c.client.List(c.ctx, jobs, client.InNamespace(ns))).To(gomega.Succeed())
-	if len(jobs.Items) == 0 {
-		log.Info("no jobs")
-	}
-	for _, job := range jobs.Items {
-		log.Info("job", "name", job.Name, "uid", job.UID, "prebuild", job.Labels[constants.PrebuiltWorkloadLabel], "pods", job.Spec.Parallelism, "suspend", job.Spec.Suspend)
-	}
-
-	wls := &kueue.WorkloadList{}
-	gomega.Expect(c.client.List(c.ctx, wls, client.InNamespace(ns))).To(gomega.Succeed())
-	if len(wls.Items) == 0 {
-		log.Info("no workloads")
-	}
-	for _, wl := range wls.Items {
-		log.Info("wl", "name", wl.Name, "pods", wl.Spec.PodSets[0].Count, "labels", wl.Labels, "status", wl.Status)
-	}
-}
-
 func admitWorkloadAndCheckWorkerCopies(acName string, wlLookupKey types.NamespacedName, admission *utiltesting.AdmissionWrapper) {
 	ginkgo.By("setting workload reservation in the management cluster", func() {
 		util.SetQuotaReservation(managerTestCluster.ctx, managerTestCluster.client, wlLookupKey, admission.Obj())