- Introduces GitHub App authentication, custom health checks (CEL), fine‑grained garbage collection, secret decryption, custom event metadata, OCIRepository commit status updates, CEL‑based resource filtering, and debug commands for Kustom...
- Updates component controllers (source, kustomize, notification, helm) and CLI image, raising minimum Kubernetes support to v1.30 (now compatible with v1.30‑v1.32) and Go to 1.23.
- Provides a seamless upgrade from v2.4.0 with no manifest changes required as no new API versions are added.