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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Type Update Change OpenSSF
fluxcd/flux2 minor 2.6.42.8.3 OpenSSF Scorecard
fluxcd/flux2 action minor v2.6.4v2.8.3 OpenSSF Scorecard

Release Notes

fluxcd/flux2 (fluxcd/flux2)

v2.8.3

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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-controller)
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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.2...v2.8.3

v2.8.2

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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 (kustomize-controller, helm-controller)
  • Fix the Go templates bug of YAML separator --- getting concatenated to apiVersion: by updating to Helm 4.1.3 (helm-controller)
  • Fix canceled HelmReleases getting stuck when they don't have a retry strategy configured by introducing a new feature gate DefaultToRetryOnFailure that improves the experience when the CancelHealthCheckOnNewRevision is enabled (helm-controller)
  • Fix the auth scope for Azure Container Registry to use the ACR-specific scope (source-controller, image-reflector-controller)
  • Fix potential Denial of Service (DoS) during TLS handshakes (CVE-2026-27138) by building all controllers with Go 1.26.1
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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.1...v2.8.2

v2.8.1

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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/Unschedulable during rollout (helm-controller, kustomize-controller)
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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.0...v2.8.1

v2.8.0

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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 objects with CEL expressions (HelmRelease)
  • Improved observability of Helm releases with inventory tracking in .status.inventory (HelmRelease)
  • Reduced the mean time to recovery of Flux-managed applications via CancelHealthCheckOnNewRevision feature gate (Kustomization, HelmRelease)
  • Support for commenting on Pull Requests directly from Flux notifications (Provider)
  • Custom SSA apply stages for ordering resource application in kustomize-controller (Kustomization)
  • Automatic GitHub App installation ID lookup from the repository owner (GitRepository, ImageUpdateAutomation, Provider)
  • Support for Cosign v3 for verifying OCI artifacts and container images (OCIRepository)
  • ArtifactGenerator support for extracting and modifying Helm charts (ArtifactGenerator)
  • Bypass cache when fetching source objects via DirectSourceFetch feature gate (Kustomization, HelmRelease, ArtifactGenerator)

❤️ Big thanks to all the Flux contributors that helped us with this release!

Kubernetes compatibility

This release is compatible with the following Kubernetes versions:

Kubernetes version Minimum required
v1.33 >= 1.32.0
v1.34 >= 1.34.1
v1.35 >= 1.35.0

[!NOTE]
Note that the Flux project offers support only for the latest three minor versions of Kubernetes.
Backwards compatibility with older versions of Kubernetes and OpenShift is offered by vendors such as
ControlPlane that provide enterprise support for Flux.

OpenShift compatibility

Flux can be installed on Red Hat OpenShift cluster directly from OperatorHub using Flux Operator. The operator allows the configuration of Flux multi-tenancy lockdown, network policies, persistent storage, sharding, vertical scaling and the synchronization of the cluster state from Git repositories, OCI artifacts, and S3-compatible storage.

Upgrade procedure

⚠️ The Flux APIs v1beta2 and v2beta2 (deprecated in 2024) have reached end-of-life and have been removed from the CRDs.

Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from older versions of Flux to v2.8.

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.7.0...v2.8.0

v2.7.5

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Flux v2.7.5 is a patch release that comes with fixes to 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 HelmRelease history truncation when using the RetryOnFailure strategy.

⚠️ Note that signature verification for OCI artifacts in source-controller is not compatible with Cosign v3.
Flux users are advised to use Cosign v2.6 for signing Flux OCI artifacts and Helm charts, until support for Cosign v3 is added in Flux v2.8.

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.7.4...v2.7.5

v2.7.4

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Highlights

Flux v2.7.4 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:

  • Add DisableConfigWatchers feature gate to all controllers for disabling the Secrets/ConfigMaps watchers
  • Fix Workload Identity for Azure China Cloud in all controllers
  • Update Helm Go SDK to v3.19.2 fixing schema validation issues in helm-controller
  • Skip secret decryption for remote kustomize patches in kustomize-controller
  • Improve post-build error reporting in kustomize-controller
  • Add ArtifactGenerator to aggregated RBAC roles

⚠️ Note that signature verification for OCI artifacts in source-controller is not compatible with Cosign v3.
Flux users are advised to use Cosign v2.6 for signing Flux OCI artifacts and Helm charts, until support for Cosign v3 is added in Flux v2.8.

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.7.3...v2.7.4

v2.7.3

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Highlights

Flux v2.7.3 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:

  • Restore SOCKS5 proxy support in all controllers
  • Fix status reporting of HelmReleases with RetryOnFailure strategy
  • Automated retries for ImagePolicies when no image tags are found in the database
  • Fix alerting for Telegram's message_thread_id
  • Allow running kustomize-controller and helm-controller on the same loopback interface as source-watcher

⚠️ Note that signature verification for OCI artifacts in source-controller is not compatible with Cosign v3. Users are advised to use Cosign v2.6 for signing Flux OCI artifacts and Helm charts, until support for Cosign v3 is added in Flux v2.8.

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.7.2...v2.7.3

v2.7.2

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Flux v2.7.2 is a patch release that comes with security 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.

All Flux components are now built with Go 1.25.2 which includes fixes for vulnerabilities in the Go stdlib that could lead to denial of service. The list of security fixes can be found in the Go 1.25.2 release notes.

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.7.1...v2.7.2

v2.7.1

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Highlights

Flux v2.7.1 is a patch release that comes with various improvements and 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.

Improvements:

  • Extend flux migrate with support for migrating manifests in Git repositories to the latest API versions.
  • Add recommendations for configuring HelmReleases on production environments.

Fixes:

  • Fix flux migrate command to handle managed fields properly.
  • Fix self-signed TLS cert handling for public Helm repositories in source-controller.
  • Fix the default API versions used by receivers in notification-controller.
  • Fix redundant Ready condition patching in helm-controller.
  • Fix workload identity configuration examples for kubeconfig in helm-controller and kustomize-controller.
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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.7.0...v2.7.1

v2.7.0

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Highlights

Flux v2.7.0 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 2.7 GA blog post.

Overview of the new features:

  • General availability release of the Image Automation APIs (ImagePolicy, ImageRepository, ImageUpdateAutomation)
  • Watch for changes in ConfigMaps and Secrets references (Kustomization, HelmRelease)
  • Support for remote cluster authentication using Workload Identity (Kustomization, HelmRelease)
  • Extend the readiness evaluation of dependencies with CEL expressions (Kustomization, HelmRelease)
  • Support for global SOPS Age decryption keys on single-tenant clusters (Kustomization)
  • Support for optional Kustomize components (Kustomization)
  • Introduce RetryOnFailure lifecycle management strategy (HelmRelease)
  • Support mTLS for sending alerts to external systems (Provider)
  • Object-level workload identity authentication (Bucket, Provider)
  • Support mTLS for GitHub App transport (GitRepository, ImageUpdateAutomation, Provider)
  • OpenTelemetry tracing for Kustomization and HelmRelease reconciliation (Provider)
  • Support for 3rd-party source controllers (ExternalArtifact)
  • Support for source composition and decomposition patterns (ArtifactGenerator)
  • CancelHealthCheckOnNewRevision feature gate (kustomize-controller)
  • GitSparseCheckout feature gate (image-automation-controller)

❤️ Big thanks to all the Flux contributors that helped us with this release!

Kubernetes compatibility

This release is compatible with the following Kubernetes versions:

Kubernetes version Minimum required
v1.32 >= 1.32.0
v1.33 >= 1.33.0
v1.34 >= 1.34.1

[!NOTE]
Note that the Flux project offers support only for the latest three minor versions of Kubernetes.
Backwards compatibility with older versions of Kubernetes and OpenShift is offered by vendors such as
ControlPlane that provide enterprise support for Flux.

OpenShift compatibility

Flux can be installed on Red Hat OpenShift cluster directly from OperatorHub using Flux Operator. The operator allows the configuration of Flux multi-tenancy lockdown, network policies, persistent storage, sharding, vertical scaling and the synchronization of the cluster state from Git repositories, OCI artifacts, and S3-compatible storage.

Upgrade procedure

⚠️ The Flux APIs v1beta1 and v2beta1 (deprecated in 2023) have reached end-of-life and have been removed from the CRDs.

Unless you are using Flux Operator to deploy the Flux controllers, you must run the flux migrate command on clusters before upgrading.

For more details, please refer to the Flux v2.7 upgrade guide.

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