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k8s: Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-11-11

Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee announced the retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026; after that there will be no further releases, bug fixes, or security updates. Users are advised to migrate to Gateway API or another Ingress controller.

k8s: Gateway API 1.4: New Features

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-11-06

Gateway API v1.4.0 (released Oct 6, 2025) advances Kubernetes service networking with three features promoted to Standard (BackendTLSPolicy, supportedFeatures in GatewayClass status, and named rule fields for Routes) and several experimental additions (Mesh/XMesh, default Gateways, and an ExternalAuth filter for HTTPRoute). The release also adds per-port TLS/client-certificate configuration to address connection coalescing security, introduces a couple of breaking validation changes, improves CI/docs, and is usable on Kubernetes >=1.26.