forkline/ingress-nginx v2026.4.3

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What's Changed

Added

• Date-based versioning — Switched from semantic versioning (v1.15.x) to date-based versioning (vYYYY.M.D or vYYYY.M.D-N for multiple daily releases). Since this project is in maintenance mode (no new features, no breaking changes), date versions more honestly communicate when the software was last maintained for security updates.
• Release automation — Added .ci/release.sh script and Makefile targets (make update-version, make update-changelog) to streamline the release process.
• GPG-signed auto-tagging — Added .github/workflows/auto-tag.yml that automatically creates a signed git tag when a release commit is pushed to main.

Fixed

• Release workflow compatibility — Updated docker_images.yml to work with date-based versions: replaced semver-only changelog-reader-action with manual CHANGELOG parsing, added --skip=validate to GoReleaser for non-semver tags, and fixed changelog body passing to avoid argument length limits.

Changed

• Helm chart — Updated charts/ingress-nginx/Chart.yaml with new versioning scheme.

Documentation

• Added AGENTS.md with maintenance mode guidelines and AI coding instructions.
• Updated README.md with date-based versioning rationale.

Container Images

• ghcr.io/forkline/ingress-nginx/controller:v2026.4.3
• ghcr.io/forkline/ingress-nginx/nginx:v2.2.9
• ghcr.io/forkline/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen:v1.6.9

Helm Chart

• appVersion: 2026.4.3

kubectl plugin

Binaries available on the GitHub Release page.

Full Changelog: v2026.04.03.1...v2026.4.3