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Review the changelog for the Gloo Operator.
For more information, see the Gloo Operator installation guide.
Changelog entry types

Changelog entries are categorized into the following types:
  • Breaking Changes: An API is changed in a way that is not backwards compatible, such as a changed format for an API field.
  • Bug Fixes: A bug is resolved in this release.
  • Dependency Bumps: The version for a dependency in the Gloo Operator is bumped in this release.
  • New Features: A new feature is implemented in the release.
v0.5

v0.5.2

Bug Fixes
  • Fixes CVEs: CVE-2026-28390, CVE-2026-32280, CVE-2026-32282
v0.5.1

Bug Fixes
  • Fixes CVEs: CVE-2026-33186, CVE-2026-25679
v0.5.0

New Features
  • Support for Istio 1.29+ via public image repo
Breaking Changes
  • Adapts to a breaking security change in Isto where access to debug endpoints is restricted by namespace
v0.5.0-rc.0

New Features
  • Support for Istio 1.29+ via public image repo
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
  • Adapts to a breaking security change in Istio where access to debug endpoints is restricted by namespace
v0.4

v0.4.4

New Features
None
Bug Fixes
  • Updates gloo-operator image to fix CVEs: CVE-2025-15467, CVE-2025-69419, CVE-2025-61726, CVE-2025-61728
Breaking Changes
None
v0.4.3

New Features
  • add check for DefaultRevision presence
Bug Fixes
  • fix defaultRevision handling
Breaking Changes
None
v0.4.2

Add FIPS support for AMD64 and ARM64.
Changes:
  • FIPS builds with BoringCrypto
  • Multi-arch support (AMD64 + ARM64)
  • FIPS images tagged with -fips suffix
Fixes #75
v0.4.1

New Features
  • Add support for Istio 1.28
Bug Fixes
  • fix values template to include enabling agentgateway
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
  • remove kagent UI from validation
v0.4.0

New Features
  • ServiceMeshController: use istio-system for DaemonSets in OpenShift
  • Gateway API: allows disabling CRD management using MANAGE_GATEWAY_API_CRD="false"
  • Gateway API: use v1.4.0
  • Helm chart and image signing
  • GatewayController defaults to Gloo Gateway v2
  • Kagent Operator
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
None
v0.4.0-rc.0

New Features
  • ServiceMeshController: use istio-system for DaemonSets in OpenShift
  • Gateway API: allows disabling CRD management using MANAGE_GATEWAY_API_CRD="false"
  • Gateway API: use v1.4.0
  • Helm chart and image signing
  • GatewayController defaults to Gloo Gateway v2
  • Kagent Operator
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
None
v0.4.0-alpha.1

New Features
None
Bug Fixes
  • Fix validation issue in KagentManagementController and KagentRelayController
v0.4.0-alpha.0

New Features
  • Add controller for deploying kagent, relay, and management components.
  • Update GatewayController to default deployment to gloo-gateway v2 deployment.
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
v0.3

v0.3.1-rc.0

New Features
  • Helm value manager.env.ISTIO_DEFAULT_REVISION_CHECK=false to disable the check for a default Istio revision
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
None
Full Changelog: https://github.com/solo-io/gloo-operator/compare/v0.3.0..v0.3.1-rc.0
v0.3.0-rc.0

New Features
  • ServiceMeshController: enables Istio 1.26 and 1.27
  • Bump Gateway API CRDs to v1.3.0
Bug Fixes
  • OtelController: fixes ordering of processors in metrics/ui
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
  • Generate SBOM for gloo-operator
  • Bump Kubernetes to 1.33, and other tools to latest
v0.3.0-beta.1

New Features
None
Bug Fixes
  • Fixes Istio control-plane and data-plane version compatibility check to run against only Istiod pods
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
v0.3.0-beta.0

What’s Changed
New Contributors
v0.2

v0.2.6

New Features
None
Bug Fixes
  • Bump helm dependency to 3.18.4 to address CVE-2025-53547
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
None
v0.2.5

New Features
None
Bug Fixes
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
None
v0.2.4

New Features
  • ServiceMeshController: Support Istio 1.26
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
v0.2.3

New Features
  • Ability to set affinity, tolerations, nodeSelector as Helm values for gloo-operator
Bug Fixes
  • ServiceMeshController: PILOT_ENABLE_K8S_SELECT_WORKLOAD_ENTRIES is no longer set in Ambient mode
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
v0.2.2

New Features
Extensions API supports ability to override underlying helm values supported keys listed below:
  • values.istio-base
  • values.istiod
  • values.istio-cni
  • values.istio-ztunnel
  • values.gloo
  • values.otel
Bug Fixes
None
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
None
v0.2.1

Bug Fixes
  • GatewayController infinite reconciliation loop in some Kubernetes clusters
Miscellaneous
v0.2.0

New Features
  • Extensions API for advanced configuration using gloo-extensions-config ConfigMap
  • Structured logging in gloo-operator
  • Admin HTTP service on localhost:6060
  • Istio 1.25 support
  • ServiceMeshController API spec.image.registry to enable image proxy cache
  • GatewayController API to deploy Gloo Gateway Enterprise
Bug Fixes
  • Platform detector differentiates between GKE and GCP
Breaking Changes
None
Miscellaneous
  • commonLabels Helm value to set labels common to all gloo-operator Helm resources
  • SaaS extensions for ServiceMeshController and GatewayController
  • OTelController for SaaS
  • API reference documentation
v0.1

v0.1.0

New Features
  • Istio lifecycle management
  • Experimental Gloo Gateway lifecycle management
Release notesSolo distribution of Istio changelog