- Added major networking features: Consul Connect support, experimental HTTP/3, wildcard hostnames, TCPRoute/TLSRoute, cross‑provider service references, and named‑port support for IngressRoute CRDs.
- Updated Kubernetes integration: CRD version upgraded to apiextensions.k8s.io/v1, improved external‑name UDP handling, ingress class v1 support, and new servers‑transport annotation.
- Introduced TLS and metrics enhancements, local private plugins, plugin support for providers, deprecated featurePolicy and SSL‑redirect header options, plus numerous bug fixes and documentation updates.