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v1.19.0

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

This release focuses on expanding platform compatibility, improving deployment flexibility, enhancing observability, and addressing key reliability issues.

📖 Read the full release notes at cert-manager.io: https://cert-manager.io/docs/releases/release-notes/release-notes-1.19

Changes since v1.18.0:

Feature

• Add IPv6 rules to the default network policy (#7726, @​jcpunk)
• Add global.nodeSelector to helm chart to allow for a single nodeSelector to be set across all services. (#7818, @​StingRayZA)
• Add a feature gate to default to Ingress pathType Exact in ACME HTTP01 Ingress challenge solvers. (#7795, @​sspreitzer)
• Add generated applyconfigurations allowing clients to make type-safe server-side apply requests for cert-manager resources. (#7866, @​erikgb)
• Added API defaults to issuer references group (cert-manager.io) and kind (Issuer). (#7414, @​erikgb)
• Added certmanager_certificate_challenge_status Prometheus metric. (#7736, @​hjoshi123)
• Added protocol field for rfc2136 DNS01 provider (#7881, @​hjoshi123)
• Added experimental field hostUsers flag to all pods. Not set by default. (#7973, @​hjoshi123)
• Support configurable resource requests and limits for ACME HTTP01 solver pods through ClusterIssuer and Issuer specifications, allowing granular resource management that overrides global --acme-http01-solver-resource-* settings. (#7972, @​lunarwhite)
• The CAInjectorMerging feature has been promoted to BETA and is now enabled by default (#8017, @​ThatsMrTalbot)
• The controller, webhook and ca-injector now log their version and git commit on startup for easier debugging and support. (#8072, @​prasad89)
• Updated certificate metrics to the collector approach. (#7856, @​hjoshi123)

Bug or Regression

• ACME: Increased challenge authorization timeout to 2 minutes to fix error waiting for authorization (#7796, @​hjoshi123)
• BUGFIX: permitted URI domains were incorrectly used to set the excluded URI domains in the CSR's name constraints (#7816, @​kinolaev)
• Enforced ACME HTTP-01 solver validation to properly reject configurations when multiple ingress options (class, ingressClassName, name) are specified simultaneously (#8021, @​lunarwhite)
• Increase maximum sizes of PEM certificates and chains which can be parsed in cert-manager, to handle leaf certificates with large numbers of DNS names or other identities (#7961, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Reverted adding the global.rbac.disableHTTPChallengesRole Helm option. (#7836, @​inteon)
• This change removes the path label of core ACME client metrics and will require users to update their monitoring dashboards and alerting rules if using those metrics. (#8109, @​mladen-rusev-cyberark)
• Use the latest version of ingress-nginx in E2E tests to ensure compatibility (#7792, @​wallrj)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Helm: Fix naming template of tokenrequest RoleBinding resource to improve consistency (#7761, @​lunarwhite)
• Improve error messages when certificates, CRLs or private keys fail admission due to malformed or missing PEM data (#7928, @​SgtCoDFish)
• Major upgrade of Akamai SDK. NOTE: The new version has not been fully tested end-to-end due to the lack of cloud infrastructure. (#8003, @​hjoshi123)
• Update kind images to include the Kubernetes 1.33 node image (#7786, @​wallrj)
• Use maps.Copy for cleaner map handling (#8092, @​quantpoet)
• Vault: Migrate Vault E2E add-on tests from deprecated vault-client-go to the new vault/api client. (#8059, @​armagankaratosun)

v1.19.0-alpha.0

cert-manager is the easiest way to automatically manage certificates in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. For testing only!

Changes since v1.18.0:

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• 12a3ef9 Merge pull request #8142 from cert-manager/renovate/kubernetes-go-deps
• 50f4142 fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime to v0.22.2
• 55c8b13 Merge pull request #8140 from cert-manager/renovate/kubernetes-go-deps
• b532b0d fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api to v1.4.0
• 2b1e348 Merge pull request #8138 from cert-manager/self-upgrade-master
• 24e1c7a BOT: run 'make upgrade-klone' and 'make generate'
• 290d577 Merge pull request #8137 from cert-manager/renovate/misc-go-deps
• 8b1650c fix(deps): update misc go deps
• 0343fae Merge pull request #8136 from cert-manager/self-upgrade-master
• dbb59b7 BOT: run 'make upgrade-klone' and 'make generate'
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