- Introduces a Flux CLI plugin system with Mirror and Schema plugins and many new capabilities such as SSA ignore rules, Age‑based SOPS decryption, workload‑identity auth for Vault/OpenBao, Helm post‑render hooks, literal Helm values, empt...
- Adds several new CLI commands (e.g., flux create secret receiver, flux create source oci with layer selector) and updates component versions, CI/build tooling, and documentation.
- Removes deprecated v1beta2 APIs (image.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2 and notification.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2), requiring users to follow the upgrade procedure.
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Fixed Helm controller rendering so empty lines no longer disappear from generated chart manifests.
Fixed regression causing Kustomization with openapi.path URLs to fail reconciliation
Disabled Flux variable substitution on all CRDs to prevent schema corruption with post‑build substitution.