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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Type Update Change
fluxcd/flux2 Kustomization minor v2.7.5 → v2.8.5

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fluxcd/flux2 (fluxcd/flux2)

v2.8.5

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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 leave stale data in the cache, causing Kustomizations to get stuck (kustomize-controller)
  • Fix Azure Blob prefix option not being passed to the storage client (source-controller)

Improvements:

  • Improve error message for encrypted SSH keys without password (source-controller)
  • Add optional email and audience fields to the GCR Receiver for tighter verification (notification-controller)
  • Add provider manifest example for Azure Event Hub managed identity authentication (notification-controller)

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.4...v2.8.5

v2.8.4

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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

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.3...v2.8.4

v2.8.3

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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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