Highlights Flux v2.9.6 is a patch release that stops helm-controller from reapplying chart CRDs on every upgrade when server-side apply is enabled, and recovers HelmReleases left with a drifted Ready=Unknown condition after a failed status patch. source-controller normalizes Azure Blob listing ETags so unchanged containers are no longer re-downloaded on every reconcile, and evicts stale Helm repos…
Highlights Flux v2.9.5 is a patch release that moves helm-controller and source-controller back to upstream Helm, now at v4.2.4, dropping the temporary Flux fork. It hardens the handling of kubeconfig Secrets in helm-controller and kustomize-controller, which now reject kubeconfigs referencing files on the local filesystem and require credentials and certificates to be embedded inline. It also sto…
Highlights Flux v2.9.4 is a patch release that ships various fixes to the Flux controllers, covering source-watcher tarball extraction and glob expansion limits, the refspecs accepted by ImageUpdateAutomation, the HTTP request limits of the notification-controller servers, and Helm repository index loading, OCI chart digest pinning, Bucket error handling and GCS static authentication in source-con…
Highlights Flux v2.9.3 is a patch release. It fixes empty lines vanishing from rendered Helm chart manifests, HelmReleases being marked as tested when their Helm test hooks never ran, and spec.images entries that set only some image fields discarding the remaining fields already declared for the same image in the kustomization.yaml. The latter affects both kustomize-controller and the flux build|d…
Highlights Flux v2.9.2 is a patch release. The main fix addresses a regression introduced in v2.9.1 where a Kustomization with openapi.path pointing to a URL failed to reconcile with failed to read OpenAPI schema. This release also corrects several CRD field descriptions that contained inaccurate or leaked content. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgra…
Highlights Flux v2.9.1 is a patch release. The main fix, applied across all controllers, disables Flux variable substitution on the Flux CRDs by annotating them with kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/substitute: disabled, so that Kustomizations with post-build substitution enabled no longer corrupt the CRD schemas when they contain ${...} sequences. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experienc…
Highlights Flux v2.9.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. For a compressive overview of new features and API changes included in this release, please refer to the Announcing Flux 2.9 GA blog post. Overview of the new features: Flux CLI Plugin System with the Mirror and Schema plugins (flux plugin) Server-Side Apply field ignore rules for fine-grained dri…
Highlights Flux v2.8.8 is a patch release that includes CVE fixes via go-git v5.19.1 (source-controller, image-automation-controller), reliability fixes in helm-controller and source-controller, the move of Helm back to upstream v4.2.0, support for GCP sovereign cloud artifact registries, and dependency updates. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade…
Highlights Flux v2.8.7 is a patch release that includes a bug fix in kustomize-controller, a CVE fix in source-controller and image-automation-controller via go-git v5.19.0, and dependency updates. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix management of objects…
Highlights Flux v2.8.6 is a patch release that includes bug fixes and improvements across helm-controller, image-automation-controller, kustomize-controller, notification-controller, and source-controller. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix a post-render…
Highlights Flux v2.8.5 is a patch release that includes bug fixes and improvements across kustomize-controller, source-controller, and notification-controller. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix a race condition where a cancelled reconciliation could lea…
Highlights Flux v2.8.4 is a patch release that includes fixes for the Flux CLI. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix flux build ks and flux diff ks on Windows Fix --source flag validation in create kustomization command CLI changelog Update fluxcd/pkg depe…
Highlights Flux v2.8.3 is a patch release that fixes a regression in helm-controller. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix templating errors for charts that include --- in the content, e.g. YAML separators, embedded scripts, CAs inside ConfigMaps (helm-con…
Highlights Flux v2.8.2 is a patch release that comes with various fixes. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix enqueuing new reconciliation requests for events on source Flux objects when they are already reconciling the revision present in the watch event…
Highlights Flux v2.8.1 is a patch release that comes with various fixes. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version. Fixes: Fix Git commit status events being dropped for Kustomizations (notification-controller) Fix health check for StatefulSets when the Pods are Pending/Un…
Highlights Flux v2.8.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. For a compressive overview of new features and API changes included in this release, please refer to the Announcing Flux 2.8 GA blog post. Overview of the new features: Helm v4 support, including server-side apply and kstatus-based health checking (HelmRelease) Readiness evaluation of Helm-managed…