v1.3.0

Below is the auto-generated changelog, which includes all PRs that went into the release.
For a shorter version that highlights only important changes, see CHANGELOG.md.

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Add ClientSettingsPolicy CRD by @kate-osborn in #1793
• Add NginxProxy CRD by @sjberman in #1815
• Add ObservabilityPolicy CRD by @sjberman in #1848
• Support NginxProxy CRD and global tracing settings by @sjberman in #1870
• GRPCRoute Support by @ciarams87 in #1835
• Add support for ResponseHeaderModifier for HTTPRouteRule objects by @salonichf5 and @kevin85421 in #1880
• Add request header filter support for gRPC by @ciarams87 in #1909
• Add field to NginxProxy to allow disabling HTTP2 by @ciarams87 in #1925
• Support response header filter for GRPCRoute by @ciarams87 in #1983
• Upgrade Gateway API to v1.1.0 by @ciarams87 in #1975
• Collect backendTLSPolicy and GRPCRoute Count by @salonichf5 in #1954
• Implement ClientSettingsPolicy by @kate-osborn in #1940
• Support tracing via the ObservabilityPolicy by @sjberman in #2004
• Run graceful recovery tests in pipeline by @salonichf5 in #2045

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: Fix reload errors due long matching conditions by @salonichf5 in #1829
• Fix crdPath in automated tests when applying the crd directory by @bjee19 in #1890
• Fix httproute counts by @ciarams87 in #1922
• Remove zone size for invalid backend ref by @bjee19 in #1931
• Add directive for SSL Server block by @salonichf5 in #1934
• Fix rbac ServiceAccount imagePullSecrets template by @bjee19 in #1953
• Allow NGF to run on Openshift by @bjee19 in #1976
• Update secrets on resource version change only by @ciarams87 in #2047

📦 Helm Chart

• Move CRDs to config directory by @lucacome in #1798
• Update minimum k8s version to 1.25 by @lucacome in #1885
• Use kustomize to generate a single CRDs file by @lucacome in #1886
• Enable yamllint for Helm Chart and GitHub Actions by @lucacome in #2018
• Add minimum k8s version in Helm by @lucacome in #2025
• Add Gateway API CRDs to the repo with kustomize by @lucacome in #2011
• Use chart-testing to lint the Helm Chart by @lucacome in #2027
• Add custom annotations into GatewayClass and NginxGateway manifests by @sgavrylenko in #1993
• Use helm-docs to automatically generate Helm docs by @lucacome in #2058
• Release 1.3.0 by @nginx-bot in #2113

📝 Documentation

32 changes

• Update release docs in main branch by @sjberman in #1748
• Fix release notes link by @lucacome in #1752
• Mark old data plane proposal as Replaced by @sjberman in #1756
• Client Settings Policy Enhancement Proposal by @kate-osborn in #1692
• Update ClientSettingsPolicy future work section by @kate-osborn in #1785
• Gateway Settings Enhancement Proposal by @sjberman in #1776
• ObservabilityPolicy Enhancement Proposal by @sjberman in #1795
• Move the helm chart to charts by @lucacome in #1862
• Docs: add basic grpc example by @ciarams87 in #1905
• Update docs process in release-guide by @sjberman in #1928
• Fixing the 'pre-commit install' command in the quick start guide of the NGF by @sindhushiv in #1944
• Add documentation for nginx_reloads_milliseconds metrics by @salonichf5 in #1986
• Automate scale test by @pleshakov in #1926
• Move conformance tests to tests directory by @lucacome in #1969
• Add missing upstream remote command to quickstart guide by @sarthyparty in #2003
• Add functional tests for ClientSettingsPolicies by @kate-osborn in #2013
• Bump NGINX Plus to R32 by @lucacome in #2057
• Add tracing how-to guide by @sjberman in #2026
• Bump nginx from 1.25.5-alpine-otel to 1.27.0-alpine-otel in /build by @dependabot in #2063
• Extend troubleshooting doc by @sjberman in #2072
• Update release doc by @lucacome in #2082
• Add 1.3.0 zero-downtime-scaling test results by @sjberman in #2096
• Add manual Graceful recovery results for 1.3.0 by @ciarams87 in #2102
• NFR Test Results for NGF version 1.3.0 by @nginx-bot in #2107
• NFR Test Results for NGF version 1.3.0 (Plus) by @nginx-bot in #2110
• Add GRPCRoute to list of core Gateway APIs in architecture doc by @ciarams87 in #2103
• Add specific instruction for upgrading NGF from OSS to Plus by @ciarams87 in #2104
• Add how-to for ClientSettingsPolicy by @kate-osborn in #2071
• Add 1.3.0 longevity test results by @pleshakov in #2093
• Add 1.3 reconfig test results by @bjee19 in #2114
• Add overview of custom NGF policies by @kate-osborn in #2088
• Generate API docs by @lucacome in #1884

🧪 Tests

• Force conformance tests to fail properly by @sjberman in #1786
• Run functional and NFR tests with ginkgo by @lucacome in #1833
• Automate Graceful Recovery NFR by @bjee19 in #1832
• Get correct leader election holder ID in upgrade test by @ciarams87 in #1994
• Add NFR scale test to GitHub actions pipeline by @pleshakov in #2024
• Fix longevity test runs by @pleshakov in #2065
• Increase timeout for tracing test by @sjberman in #2068
• Fix GRPCRoute check in tests by @sjberman in #2100
• Add retries to tracing tests by @sjberman in #2101

🧹 Tech debt

• Add delete predicate for gateway class by @hckuo in #1696
• Refactor Status Updater to be resource agnostic by @pleshakov in #1814

🔨 Maintenance

• Add workaround for golangci-lint errors by @lucacome in #1751
• Fix permissions for Release PR workflow by @lucacome in #1797
• Add EditorConfig by @lucacome in #1849
• Remove replace no longer needed by @lucacome in #1900
• Fix conformance tests using cached binary by @lucacome in #1914
• Use new directories directive in dependabot by @lucacome in #1919
• Bump Dockerfile version to 1.7 by @lucacome in #1916
• Overwrite existing conformance files by @lucacome in #1951
• Speed up generation by @lucacome in #1990
• Replace yq with sed by @lucacome in #2062
• Add PRs with release-notes labels to the CHANGELOG by @lucacome in #2067
• Test Chart installation for Plus and remote images by @lucacome in #2060
• Run golang-ci lint for all the modules by @lucacome in #2081
• Run functional tests with LoadBalancer by @lucacome in #2075

⬆️ Dependencies

114 changes

• Bump actions/checkout from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 by @dependabot in #1749
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 5.0.2 to 6.0.2 by @dependabot in #1750
• Bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.50.0 to 0.51.0 by @dependabot in #1746
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3.24.8 to 3.24.9 by @dependabot in #1757
• Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.2.3 to 4.2.4 by @dependabot in #1772
• Bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.51.0 to 0.51.1 by @dependabot in #1774
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.17.0 to 2.17.1 by @dependabot in #1773
• Bump anchore/sbom-action from 0.15.9 to 0.15.10 by @dependabot in #1780
• Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.2.4 to 4.2.5 by @dependabot in #1779
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot in #1778
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1777
• Bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.51.1 to 0.52.2 by @dependabot in #1801
• Bump vite from 5.1.6 to 5.2.8 in /internal/mode/static/nginx/modules by @dependabot in #1802
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• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1796
• Bump nginx from 1.25.4-alpine to 1.25.5-alpine in /build by @dependabot in #1850
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• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.32.0 to 1.33.0 by @dependabot in #1855
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• Bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.1 to 3.25.2 by @dependabot in #1871
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• Bump kindest/node from v1.29.2 to v1.30.0 in /tests by @lucacome in #2016
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New Contributors

• @hckuo made their first contribution in #1696
• @sindhushiv made their first contribution in #1944
• @sarthyparty made their first contribution in #2003
• @sgavrylenko made their first contribution in #1993

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0