- General availability of OCI Artifacts APIs and artifact commands, including OCI digest pinning, workload‑level identity authentication, and cached registry credentials
- Added Git HTTPS mutual‑TLS, GitHub App, Azure Event Hub managed‑identity authentication, sparse checkout support, and customizable Git commit status IDs
- Includes extensive bug‑fixes, security hardening, updated docs and component versions; upgrade requires setting source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1 on OCIRepository resources and optional annotation