Release Flagger 1.42.0

Signed-off-by: Stefan Prodan <stefan.prodan@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,69 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 
+## 1.42.0
+
+**Release date:** 2025-10-16
+
+This release comes with enhancements to Gateway API support, new metrics capabilities, and various bug fixes.
+
+Flagger now supports Gateway API v1.4.0 and adds CORS policy configuration for Gateway API HTTPRoutes.
+For more information, please see the [Gateway API tutorial](https://docs.flagger.app/main/tutorials/gatewayapi-progressive-delivery#customising-the-httproute).
+
+Session affinity support has been enhanced with [cookie attributes](https://docs.flagger.app/main/usage/deployment-strategies#configuring-additional-cookie-attributes)
+configuration for better control over session management.
+
+A new `.spec.service.unmanagedMetadata` field has been added to the Canary API to allow 3rd-party
+controllers to set labels and annotations on the Kubernetes Services created by Flagger.
+
+When running Flagger on Kubernetes 1.33 or later, users can now specify the traffic distribution
+using the new `.spec.service.trafficDistribution` Canary field. Depending on the Kubernetes version
+the traffic distribution can be set to `PreferClose`, `PreferSameZone` or `PreferSameNode`.
+See the [Kubernetes Service docs](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#traffic-distribution) for more details.
+
+This release is built with Go 1.25. The Kubernetes dependencies have been updated to 1.34,
+and the Traefik API has been migrated from `traefik.containo.us` to `traefik.io`.
+
+#### Improvements
+- Update Gateway API to v1.4.0
+  [#1842](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1842)
+- Add support for CORS policy to Gateway API
+  [#1843](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1843)
+- Add support for setting traffic distribution
+  [#1844](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1844)
+- Add count metrics for canary successes and failures
+  [#1812](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1812)
+- Add support for cookie attributes in session affinity
+  [#1826](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1826)
+- Add `unmanagedMetadata` to canary service specification
+  [#1823](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1823)
+- Update dependencies to Kubernetes 1.34
+  [#1832](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1832)
+- Build with Go 1.25
+  [#1832](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1832)
+- Update Traefik API from traefik.containo.us to traefik.io
+  [#1835](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1835)
+- Update GitOps install docs to latest Flux APIs
+  [#1845](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1845)
+- loadtester: add pod security context
+  [#1803](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1803)
+- Release loadtester 0.36.0
+  [#1846](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1846)
+
+#### Fixes
+- Fix: Gateway router should wait for accepted condition
+  [#1791](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1791)
+- Fix: Send succeeded webhooks with correct phase
+  [#1792](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1792)
+- Fix: Honor event webhook timeout
+  [#1797](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1797)
+- Fix: Default namespace for cross-namespace ref validation
+  [#1828](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1828)
+- Fix: APISIX E2E test
+  [#1831](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1831)
+- Fix: Correct typo in AutoscalerReference type name
+  [#1739](https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger/pull/1739)
+
 ## 1.41.0
 
 **Release date:** 2025-04-02

artifacts/flagger/deployment.yaml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ spec:
       serviceAccountName: flagger
       containers:
       - name: flagger
-        image: ghcr.io/fluxcd/flagger:1.41.0
+        image: ghcr.io/fluxcd/flagger:1.42.0
         imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
         ports:
         - name: http

charts/flagger/Chart.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 apiVersion: v1
 name: flagger
-version: 1.41.0
-appVersion: 1.41.0
+version: 1.42.0
+appVersion: 1.42.0
 kubeVersion: ">=1.19.0-0"
 engine: gotpl
 description: Flagger is a progressive delivery operator for Kubernetes

charts/flagger/values.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 image:
   repository: ghcr.io/fluxcd/flagger
-  tag: 1.41.0
+  tag: 1.42.0
   pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   pullSecret:
 

docs/gitbook/tutorials/gatewayapi-progressive-delivery.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This guide shows you how to use [Gateway API](https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/) and Flagger to automate canary deployments and A/B testing.
 
-![Flagger Canary Stages](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluxcd/flagger/main/docs/diagrams/flagger-gatewayapi-canary.png)
+![Flagger Gateway API Integration](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluxcd/flagger/main/docs/diagrams/flagger-gatewayapi-canary.png)
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -286,6 +286,11 @@ Now you can access podinfo via `curl -H "Host: www.example.com" localhost:8080`.
 
 ## Automated canary promotion
 
+With the application bootstrapped, Flagger will continuously monitor the deployment for changes.
+When a new revision is detected, Flagger will start a canary analysis and gradually shift traffic to the new version.
+
+![Flagger Canary Stages](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluxcd/flagger/main/docs/diagrams/flagger-canary-steps.png)
+
 Trigger a canary deployment by updating the container image:
 
 ```bash

kustomize/base/flagger/kustomization.yaml

@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ resources:
 images:
   - name: ghcr.io/fluxcd/flagger
     newName: ghcr.io/fluxcd/flagger
-    newTag: 1.41.0
+    newTag: 1.42.0

pkg/controller/events.go

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ func (c *Controller) alert(canary *flaggerv1.Canary, message string, metadata bo
 		err = n.Post(canary.Name, canary.Namespace, message, fields, string(severity))
 		if err != nil {
 			c.logger.With("canary", fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s", canary.Name, canary.Namespace)).
-				Errorf("alert provider $s.%s send error: %v", alert.ProviderRef.Name, providerNamespace, err)
+				Errorf("alert provider %s.%s send error: %v", alert.ProviderRef.Name, providerNamespace, err)
 		}
 
 	}

pkg/version/version.go

@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 package version
 
-var VERSION = "1.41.0"
+var VERSION = "1.42.0"
 var REVISION = "unknown"