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.

v0.4

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