From 1521dda08763ee5a35324383a6440e524a62e7a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ciprian Hacman <ciprian@hakman.dev>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:26:09 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Prefer using id_ed25519.pub instead of id_rsa.pub

---
 cmd/kops/create_cluster.go  |  2 +-
 docs/releases/1.34-NOTES.md | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/releases/1.34-NOTES.md

diff --git a/cmd/kops/create_cluster.go b/cmd/kops/create_cluster.go
index 2ef563b9ab..753bda6e07 100644
--- a/cmd/kops/create_cluster.go
+++ b/cmd/kops/create_cluster.go
@@ -766,8 +766,8 @@ func RunCreateCluster(ctx context.Context, f *util.Factory, out io.Writer, c *Cr
 		if autoloadSSHPublicKeys {
 			// Load from default locations, if found
 			sshPublicKeyPaths := []string{
-				"~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub",
 				"~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub",
+				"~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub",
 			}
 			var merr error
 			for _, sshPublicKeyPath := range sshPublicKeyPaths {
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.34-NOTES.md b/docs/releases/1.34-NOTES.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7d56e9fcb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/releases/1.34-NOTES.md
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+## Release notes for kOps 1.34 series
+
+**&#9888; kOps 1.34 has not been released yet! &#9888;**
+
+This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.
+
+# Significant changes
+
+* Default SSH key is now `~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub`, instead of the less secure `~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub`.
+
+## Some Feature
+
+* TODO
+
+## AWS
+
+* TODO
+
+## GCP
+
+* TODO
+
+## Openstack
+
+* TODO
+
+# Other changes of note
+
+* TODO
+
+# Breaking changes
+
+## Other breaking changes
+
+* Legacy addons have been removed from the kOps repo. These were only referenced by kOps <1.22 ([17322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17332))
+
+# Known Issues
+
+* TODO
+
+# Deprecations
+
+* Support for Kubernetes version 1.28 is removed in kOps 1.34.
+
+* Support for Kubernetes version 1.29 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.35.