- Fixed critical CVEs (2026‑48020, 2026‑48491, 2026‑53622) and updated several dependencies for security hardening
- Implemented many bug fixes across TLS, TCP routing, ingress handling, access‑log quoting, file provider, authentication, and Kubernetes client configuration
- Improved documentation: migration guide wording, new chart behavior for Gateway API, ingressClassName guide, and maintainer information