- Promoted GitRepository, Kustomization, and Receiver APIs to v1 (GA), removing several deprecated fields and requiring manifest updates – a breaking change.
- Introduced horizontal scaling and sharding for Flux controllers, added Workload Identity support for password‑less OCI authentication, and expanded alerting with PagerDuty and Google Pub/Sub.
- Achieved provisional SLSA Build Level 3 compliance, updated minimum Kubernetes version to 1.24, and released new documentation on release cadence and supply‑chain security.