nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric v2.6.0 on GitHub

Below is the auto-generated changelog, which includes all PRs that went into the release.
For a shorter version that highlights only important changes, see CHANGELOG.md.

What's Changed

🚀 Features

Support multiple TLS certs per HTTPS Listener by @sjberman in #5037
Proxy settings timeouts by @ciarams87 in #5165
Support for Gateway FrontendTLS by @shaun-nx in #5127
Add additional configuration options to nginxGateway.readinessProbe by @shaun-nx in #5200
Support ListenerSets by @bjee19 in #5208
Integrate with F5 WAF for NGINX by @ciarams87 in #5215

🐛 Bug Fixes

23 changes

Support v1beta1 ReferenceGrant; add finalizer RBAC by @sjberman in #4992
Ensure NGINX is not provisioned when no listeners are defined by @shaun-nx in #4974
Move gateway define rate-limit-policy directives from HTTP to Server context by @salonichf5 in #4993
Increase http hash bucket sizes by @sjberman in #5034
Fix broadcaster loop by @bjee19 in #4978
Allow NGINX variables in request and response modifier filters and fix colon and dollar sign restrictions in regex header and query param match by @salonichf5 in #5008
fix: allow TCPRoute and UDPRoute on same gateway port by @oyiz-michael in #5016
Use minimalObject when provisioning objects by @bjee19 in #4940
Add fix for effective NginxProxy when different Kubernetes types are specified by @bjee19 in #5058
Update validation check for IPFamily between BackendRefs and NginxProxy by @salonichf5 in #5052
Fix bug where N1C dataplane key is ignored by @ciarams87 in #5072
Fix CORS failure when attached to HTTPS Listener by @sjberman in #5071
Allow externalTrafficPolicy on ClusterIP services with externalIPs by @salonichf5 in #5075
Escape $ in rewrites by @sjberman in #5122
Run functional tests and graceful recovery in parallel to improve pipeline run time. by @salonichf5 in #5109
Fix CORS preflight bypass when used with URLRewrite by @salonichf5 in #5194
Fix InferencePool tracking by @sjberman in #5207
Remove listener name from ssl_client_certificate file name by @shaun-nx in #5206
Return empty list instead of nil for listener supported kinds when listener protocol is invalid. by @dhurley in #5216
Set max message size for gRPC messages sent and received from agent by @dhurley in #5161
Fix default Plus and WAF image assignment by @ciarams87 in #5225
Fix openshift and ubi issues by @nginx-bot in #5251
Fix NIM bundle fetch to select latest compilation when multiple versions exist by @nginx-bot in #5252

📦 Helm Chart

Update docs for release 2.5.0 by @sjberman in #5028
helm: add extraObjects support to nginx-gateway-fabric chart by @sinux-l5d in #5011
Update docs for release 2.5.1 by @sjberman in #5098
Release 2.6.0 by @github-actions[bot] in #5249

🧪 Tests

NFR Test Results for NGF version 2.5.0 by @github-actions[bot] in #5007
Longevity Test Results for NGF version 2.5.0 by @github-actions[bot] in #5018
Add keepAlive.MinTimeout field to ClientSettingsPolicy by @salonichf5 in #5040
NFR Test Results for NGF version edge by @github-actions[bot] in #5051
Update docker/dockerfile Docker tag to v1.23 by @renovate[bot] in #5043
Update Kubernetes manifests by @renovate[bot] in #5105
Update Helm release opentelemetry-collector to v0.153.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5117, #5158, #5190, #5219
Simplify HTTP response assertions in tests using Gomega matchers by @dap0am in #5095
NFR: only download new results by @sjberman in #5128
Set the default SSL verify depth to 4 by @dhurley in #5174
Update ubuntu Docker tag to v26 by @renovate[bot] in #5181
Update curlimages/curl Docker tag to v8.20.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5212
Collect ListenerSetCount in telemetry by @bjee19 in #5210
NFR Test Results for NGF version 2.6.0 by @nginx-bot in #5238
Longevity Test Results for NGF version 2.6.0 by @nginx-bot in #5244

📝 Documentation

Add missing note to CHANGELOG by @sjberman in #5035
Update nginx Docker tag to v1.30.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5093, #5152
Update NGINX Agent to v3.9.1 by @renovate[bot] in #5126, #5217
docs: Update Code of Conduct by @alessfg in #5141
Update examples to match waf docs by @ciarams87 in #5226

🔨 Maintenance

Update operator RBAC and fix script by @sjberman in #5000
Fix NFR input check by @sjberman in #5002
Revert operator Dockerfile by @sjberman in #5029
Update DOCKER action variable names by @sjberman in #5079
Update docker token var by @sjberman in #5080
Update paths to GH actions by @jjngx in #5090
Use direct go proxy in PRs by @ciarams87 in #5107
Add update to musl, musl-utils, and zlib packages in nginx plus dockerfile by @bjee19 in #5142
Manually build helm operator by @sjberman in #5183
Update nginx images for package CVEs by @sjberman in #5229

⬆️ Dependencies

41 changes

Update Gateway API Inference Extension by @renovate[bot] in #4988
Update DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action action to v23.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #4999, #5205
Update dependency redhat-openshift-ecosystem/openshift-preflight to v1.17.2 by @renovate[bot] in #4998, #5124, #5167
Update GitHub Actions by @renovate[bot] in #4997
Update codecov/codecov-action action to v6 by @renovate[bot] in #5010
Update ghcr.io/nginx/dependencies/nginx-ubi:ubi9 Docker digest to 68091f7 by @renovate[bot] in #5009, #5065, #5114, #5146, #5166, #5195
Update libpng for CVEs by @sjberman in #5013
Lock file maintenance by @renovate[bot] in #5012, #5025, #5077, #5118, #5159, #5191, #5221
Update module github.com/nginxinc/nginx-go-crossplane to v0.4.88 by @renovate[bot] in #5017, #5125
Update github/codeql-action action to v4.35.2 by @renovate[bot] in #5024, #5157
Update dependency goreleaser/goreleaser to v2.15.4 by @renovate[bot] in #5023, #5041, #5148
Update GitHub Actions by @renovate[bot] in #5022
Update npm dependencies to ^4.1.5 by @renovate[bot] in #5021, #5188
Update dependency dadav/helm-schema to v0.23.2 by @renovate[bot] in #5042, #5147, #5180
Update reviewdog/action-actionlint action to v1.72.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5046
Update module google.golang.org/grpc to v1.80.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5045
Update lucacome/draft-release action to v2.2.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5055, #5173
Update module github.com/nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric/v2 to v2.5.1 by @renovate[bot] in #5044, #5104
Update opentelemetry-go monorepo to v1.43.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5068
Update docker/login-action action to v4.1.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5067
Update module github.com/maxbrunsfeld/counterfeiter/v6 to v6.12.2 by @renovate[bot] in #5066
[pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #5082
Update pre-commit hook gitleaks/gitleaks to v8.30.1 by @renovate[bot] in #5088
Update actions/github-script action to v9 by @renovate[bot] in #5112
Update pre-commit hook rbubley/mirrors-prettier to v3.8.3 by @renovate[bot] in #5110, #5150
Update module golang.org/x/text to v0.36.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5111
Update npm dependencies by @renovate[bot] in #5116
Update GitHub Actions by @renovate[bot] in #5089
Update kubernetes monorepo to v0.35.4 by @renovate[bot] in #5149
Update dependency prettier to v3.8.3 by @renovate[bot] in #5156
Update GitHub Actions by @renovate[bot] in #5154
Update pre-commit hook thlorenz/doctoc to v2.4.1 by @renovate[bot] in #5151
Update Gateway API Inference Extension to v1.5.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5153
Update module github.com/dlclark/regexp2 to v1.12.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5155, #5220
Update pre-commit hook DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2 to v0.22.1 by @renovate[bot] in #5168
Update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.28.2 by @renovate[bot] in #5187
Update goreleaser/goreleaser-action action to v7.2.1 by @renovate[bot] in #5189
Update golang Docker tag to v1.26 by @renovate[bot] in #5196
Update module go.uber.org/zap to v1.28.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5197
Update Testing dependencies by @renovate[bot] in #5204
Update module github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify to v1.10.0 by @renovate[bot] in #5213

Other Changes

Operator Bundle v1.3.0 by @nginx-bot in #5031
Revert "Update lucacome/draft-release action to v2.1.0" by @sjberman in #5078
Operator Bundle v1.3.1 by @nginx-bot in #5100
ci: Update F5 CLA by @alessfg in #5144

New Contributors

@sinux-l5d made their first contribution in #5011
@jjngx made their first contribution in #5090
@dap0am made their first contribution in #5095
@alessfg made their first contribution in #5144

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.6.0