Change8

edge-25.6.4

📦 linkerd
3 features🐛 4 fixes🔧 4 symbols

Summary

This release introduces the ability to configure OpenTelemetry tracing directly via the Helm chart and fixes an issue with `caBundle` configuration when using PEM certificates. Users are advised to use edge-25.8.1 instead of this version.

✨ New Features

  • Allows configuring OpenTelemetry tracing without installing the `linkerd-jaeger` extension.
  • Allows using a named pipe for SPIRE when running the proxy for Windows mesh expansion.
  • Added proxy tracing configuration to the control plane Helm chart.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the `caBundle` field in the Helm chart was not being set correctly when using PEM-encoded CA certificates.
  • Removed an unintentionally-added HTTP/1 header read timeout.
  • Fixed visibility clippy lint in policy-controller.
  • Removed extra space in `linkerd-cni` description in charts.

🔧 Affected Symbols

linkerd-jaeger extensioncaBundle (Helm chart field)proxypolicy-controller