Happy to share our newest digest of the prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!

1. Envoy, a high-performance edge/middle/service proxy (a CNCF Graduated project), has seen its 1.34.0 release with alpha support for asynchronous load balancing, initial support for shared libraries to be loaded at runtime, support for Fluentd tracer, configurable custom commands for Redis proxy, configurable backoff strategy for TCP proxy retries, new compliance policies TLS parameter to enforce restrictions, and much more.

2. Percona Everest, a Cloud Native database platform for managing PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MySQL instances, was updated to 1.6.0. It introduced support for manual storage scaling, seamless major version upgrades for MongoDB, support for PostgreSQL 17, and other enhancements.

3. Rook, a storage orchestration for Kubernetes (a CNCF Graduated project), released its v1.17 with numerous updates. They include secure ObjectBucketClaims by default, credential management for CephObjectStoreUser, authentication mechanism for bucket notifications using Kafka topics, Ceph CSI 3.14 and improved Ceph CSI Operator, external (configured outside the Kubernetes cluster) mons, and Kubernetes v1.33 support.

4. Artifact Hub, a web application to find and install Cloud Native packages (a CNCF Incubating project), reached v1.21.0, featuring support for bootable containers images and experimental deletion protection.

5. Linkerd, a service mesh for Kubernetes (a CNCF Graduated project), announced 2.18 with optional protocol declarations (in addition to existing auto-detection), GitOps-compatible multicluster linking, decoupled Gateway API, and experimental Windows support.

6. Vitess, a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL (a CNCF Graduated project), released 22.0.0 with prepared statements, new VTGate metrics, stalled-disk recovery, improved errant GTID detection, better performance, and updated Kubernetes operator with automated backups and Kubernetes 1.32 support.

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