v1.5.3

Date: October 9, 2025

Breaking changes

Security updates

  • Bumped Go version to 1.24.8.

New features

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a nil pointer panic in the XDS translator when building API key authentication filter configurations with sanitize enabled and no forwardClientIDHeader set.
  • Truncated Gateway API status condition messages to stay within Kubernetes limits and prevent update failures.
  • Fixed an issue in EnvoyPatchPolicy where it didn’t match the target Gateway/GatewayClass due to an incorrect name reference.

Performance improvements

  • Avoided memory build up in follower Envoy Gateway pods, by only subscribing to status and infra messages when they become a leader.

Deprecations

Other changes


Last modified October 9, 2025: Release notes for v1.5.3 (#7175) (45ba9a1)