[release/v1.8] v1.8.0 release docs and announcement by jukie · Pull Request #8942 · envoyproxy/gateway

jukie · 2026-05-08T23:46:32Z

What this PR does / why we need it:

Prepares Envoy Gateway v1.8.0 for release per the release process

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Add v1.8.0 release docs snapshot, announcement, and compatibility matrix entry. Update version shortcodes and hugo.toml versions list for the new minor release. Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com>

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Match the existing convention for v0.3 through v1.6 so the v1.8 docs snapshot does not fail markdown lint due to inherited trailing-space artifacts in latest/api/. Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com>

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sboulkour · 2026-05-12T08:49:18Z

Hi @jukie ,
could you have PR #8956 included in the release ?
It had first review yesterday, it is close to get merged I believe.

And sorry if I am being pushy here, this is the mandatory and missing feature I need to rollout all our clusters from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway.

jukie · 2026-05-12T22:29:11Z

Hi @sboulkour, unfortunately that will need to go into the v1.9 release.

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Resolved release-notes/current.yaml conflict: - Dropped 4 bug fixes already migrated to release-notes/v1.8.0.yaml - Kept envoyproxy#8962 fix (cherrypick targets v1.6.8/v1.7.4, not v1.8) Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com>

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* fix(api): increase RateLimitSelectCondition.headers MaxItems from 16 to 64 (#8906) * fix(api): increase RateLimitSelectCondition.headers MaxItems from 16 to 64 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: wucm667 <stevenwucongmin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com> * feat: policy field owner (#8538) * feat: policy field owner Signed-off-by: kkk777-7 <kota.kimura0725@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com> * skip invalid listener first in IR (#8577) * skip invalid listener Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * fix specValid Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * nit Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * fix Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * MUST NOT pick one conflicting Listener as the winner Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * update Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Isaac Wilson <isaac.wilson514@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: remove cross ns policy attachment status (#8901) * Revert "add warning for partially accepted targets" This reverts commit 5d88fbb. Signed-off-by: Huabing (Robin) Zhao <zhaohuabing@gmail.com> * remove warning condition for cross-ns policy attachments without referenceGrants Signed-off-by: Huabing (Robin) Zhao <zhaohuabing@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Huabing (Robin) Zhao <zhaohuabing@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com> * feat: add runner event metrics (#8802) * add metrics for runner Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * rename Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * rename Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> * reuse Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arko Dasgupta <arkodg@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Arko Dasgupta <arkodg@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com> * fix: respect backend endpoint hostname for health checks (#8929) * fix: respect backend endpoint hostname for health checks ### Summary - Keep BackendTrafficPolicy HTTP health check hostnames as explicit cluster-level hosts, and leave route-derived host fallback to xDS cluster translation. - Preserve Backend endpoint hostnames as per-endpoint overrides via Endpoint.HealthCheckConfig.hostname, ahead of the route fallback. - Update gatewayapi/xDS fixtures, release notes, and generated API docs/CRDs for the host selection order. ### Test plan - go test ./internal/ir - go test ./internal/xds/translator - go test ./internal/gatewayapi -run TestTranslate/backendtrafficpolicy - go test ./internal/gatewayapi -run TestTranslate/(clienttrafficpolicy-http-health-check|envoyextensionpolicy-with-extproc-with-retries|envoyextensionpolicy-with-extproc-with-traffic-features|envoyproxy-accesslog-with-traffic|envoyproxy-tracing-backend-uds|envoyproxy-tracing-backend|securitypolicy-with-jwt-backendcluster|securitypolicy-with-jwt-backendsettings) - make generate - make manifests - git diff --check Signed-off-by: Arko Dasgupta <arkodg@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> * fix gen Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Arko Dasgupta <arkodg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> Co-authored-by: zirain <zirain2009@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: jukie <10012479+jukie@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(helm): propagate commonLabels to RBAC resources (#8818) * feat(helm): propagate commonLabels to RBAC resources Issue #8817 reported that 'helm template ... --set commonLabels.custom-label=custom-value' left ClusterRole, ClusterRoleBinding, Role, and RoleBinding resources unlabelled. The other resources in the chart already include 'eg.labels' in their metadata - which picks up 'commonLabels' via the helper at _helpers.tpl:43 - but envoy-gateway-rbac.yaml didn't set any labels block. Add 'labels: {{- include "eg.labels" . | nindent 4 }}' on every Role / RoleBinding / ClusterRole / ClusterRoleBinding declared in envoy-gateway-rbac.yaml. Matches the existing labels pattern used in certgen-rbac.yaml and envoy-gateway-deployment.yaml. Scopes are '$' inside the watched-namespaces 'range' and '.' at the template root, same rule the helper block inside the file already used. Verified locally with: helm dependency update charts/gateway-helm envsubst < charts/gateway-helm/values.tmpl.yaml > \ charts/gateway-helm/values.yaml helm template eg charts/gateway-helm \ --set commonLabels.custom-label=custom-value | yq ... All four RBAC resources now emit 'custom-label: custom-value' in their metadata.labels, matching the issue's repro steps. Cert-gen RBAC resources already carried it; this PR brings the core envoy-gateway RBAC set into parity. Fixes #8817 Signed-off-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com> * chore: regenerate helm-template snapshots for RBAC labels Run 'make helm-template.gateway-helm' to regenerate the snapshot fixtures after the envoy-gateway-rbac.yaml labels change. Adds the 'labels:' block to the RBAC resources in all 27 test cases. 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