v1.6.1

Date: December 05, 2025

Breaking changes

Security updates

New features

Bug fixes

  • Fixed xDS snapshot cache to clear snapshots when streams close, preventing proxies from receiving stale configuration after reconnection.
  • Fixed configured OIDC authorization endpoint being overridden by discovered endpoints from issuer’s well-known URL.
  • Fixed an issue with gateway ownership tracking when running multiple controllers.
  • Fixed default namespace handling when namespace is unset.
  • Fixed a bug where HTTPRoutes referencing gateways with multiple different GatewayClasses would have incomplete status conditions.
  • Fixed gateway status to treat too many addresses as programmed.
  • Fix 500 errors caused by partially invalid BackendRefs; traffic is now correctly routed between valid backends and 500 responses according to their configured weights.

Performance improvements

Deprecations

Other changes

  • Bumped Gateway API to v1.4.1.
  • Bumped golang.org/x/crypto dependency.
  • Added disk space reclamation script for CI runners to prevent out-of-disk errors.

Last modified December 5, 2025: release note for v1.6.1 (#7675) (b6c0ecf)