1. Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine (a CNCF Incubating project), released 1.17 that declares its CEL policy engine stable. These CEL-based policies got numerous new function libraries for YAML/JSON parsing, X509 decoding, and more. The release also introduced support for Cosign v3, and namespaced mutation and generation.
2. OpenEverest, a Cloud Native database platform, released 1.13.0, featuring a Pod Logs Viewer displaying real-time logs from database Pods directly in the UI, dynamic value injection in LoadBalancerConfig to create reusable configurations, and support for Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator v1.19.0.
3. Backstage, a framework for building developer portals (a CNCF Incubating project), reached v1.48.0, bringing experimental refresh token support, lots of updates in the new frontend system (new navigation system, home plugin, plugin titles and icons), new UI components, experimental catalog generic SCM event handling, and module federation enabled by default.
4. Crossplane (a CNCF Graduated project) made a regular quarterly release, v2.2.0. It brought a pipeline inspector (alpha), ImageConfig configuration for DeploymentRuntimeConfig used for packages, server-side apply support in the MRD controller when updating CRDs, support for composition functions to request OpenAPI schemas, and an enhanced
crossplane beta trace command.5. Dex, an OpenID Connect identity and OAuth 2.0 provider (a CNCF Sandbox project), was updated to v2.45.0, adding PKCE support in the OIDC connector, a Vault signer for JWT, and enhanced static passwords.
6. Flux (a CNCF Graduated project) released 2.8 GA, featuring Helm v4 support, faster recovery from failed deployments, CEL-based health check expressions for Helm releases, ephemeral preview environments from GitHub PRs and GitLab MRs, and support for Cosign v3.
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