What's Changed

VPA API Versions reported in the vpa_objects_count metric now include v1 VPAs (see #5864)
Added the /status subresource to VPA. Action Required if installing VPA yourself: New cluster role and binding needed to update recommendation (see #5911)
Basic auth added for Prometheus provider in VPA recommender. (see #6005)
(Cleanup) Use vpaObject instead of vpaModel to reduce deps of post-processors. (see #6061)
(Bug fix) Prevent empty resource propagation upstream (see #6062)
(Alpha) External metrics support for VPA recommender (see #5576)
Update VPA vendor (see #5904)
Golang bump to 1.21.1 (see #6095)

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