KO v2.4.x

Issues

• Report problems in consistent way

  area/observabilityenhancement
  Kong/kong-operator#2344 · Filter by author programmer04 opened on Sep 24, 2025 · KO v2.4.x

• Adjustment of KONG_PORT_MAPS in GatewayConfiguration leads to broken reconciliation

  area/dataplanearea/gateway-apibugpriority/low
  Kong/kong-operator#2854 · Filter by author programmer04 opened on Dec 11, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  4

  

• backendRefs in HTTPROUTE is not supporting filters

  area/gateway-apipending author feedbackstale
  Kong/kong-operator#3079 · Filter by author chandanbsc opened on Jan 15, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  5

• Support expressions route in KongRoute CRD

  area/crdsstale
  Kong/kong-operator#2673 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Nov 20, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  9

• Support adopting expression routes by KongRoute CRD

  stale
  Kong/kong-operator#2676 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Nov 21, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  4

• Do not rely on kubernetes.io/ingress.class annotation

  release/required
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#1398 · Filter by author programmer04 opened on Mar 25, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  5

  

• Simplify management of Kong Plugins

  enhancement
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#1399 · Filter by author programmer04 opened on Mar 25, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  4

  

• Hybrid Gateway conformance: enable HTTPRouteMethodMatching test

  area/conformancepriority/low
  Kong/kong-operator#3445 · Filter by author tao12345666333 opened on Mar 1, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  2

  

• Add metrics for CP uploading configuration to Konnect related to the size of configuration and concurrency

  area/controlplanearea/konnectarea/observabilitypriority/low
  Kong/kong-operator#3169 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Jan 29, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• Migrate CRDs in deck and go-database-reconciler repo

  area/crds
  Kong/kong-operator#2254 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Sep 10, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  3

  

• ☔ KIC deprecations and cleanup

  epicrelease/required
  Feature

  Kong/kong-operator#1357 · Filter by author czeslavo opened on Mar 13, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  4

• Handle KongUpstreamPolicy correctly for HTTPRoute using multiple services in backendRefs in one rule

  area/gateway-api
  Kong/kong-operator#2495 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Oct 27, 2025 · KO v2.4.x

• Docs: CRD reference shows missing external types (e.g., AuthType)

  priority/lowstale
  Kong/kong-operator#2564 · Filter by author tao12345666333 opened on Nov 5, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  3

  

• CRD default fields, enclosed by structs that are used as optional fields do not take effect

  area/crdspriority/high
  Kong/kong-operator#2588 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Nov 12, 2025 · KO v2.4.x

• Remove --konnect-controller-max-concurrent-reconciles, couple of versions after 2.1

  area/maintenance
  Kong/kong-operator#2768 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Nov 28, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  

• Evaluate which ingress service spec fields can be set in the ServiceOptions field.

  Feature

  Kong/kong-operator#2837 · Filter by author mlavacca opened on Dec 9, 2025 · KO v2.4.x
  1

• Add status field to KonnectExtension indicating the backing KongDataPlaneClientCertificate CR

  area/crdsarea/konnect
  Kong/kong-operator#2640 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Nov 18, 2025 · KO v2.4.x

• Output dropped Creation/Update/Delete events when failed to sync Kong configuration by go-database-reconciler

  area/controlplanearea/observability
  Kong/kong-operator#3045 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Jan 13, 2026 · KO v2.4.x

• ☔ Optimize potential 429s when synchornizing configuration with KIC CP of Konnect

  epic
  Kong/kong-operator#3166 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Jan 29, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  1

• get${TYPE}ForUID functions do not take paging into account

  bug
  Kong/kong-operator#3918 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Apr 16, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  1

  

• Konnect entities: EventGatewayListenerPolicy contains a Konnect ID reference to virtual cluster instead of in cluster ref

  area/crds
  Kong/kong-operator#4594 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Jun 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x

• Enable Codecov on CI

  area/ciarea/testsmigrated-from-archive
  Kong/kong-operator#201 · Filter by author shaneutt opened on Jun 6, 2022 · KO v2.4.x
  2

• Add chainsaw based test for DataPlaneClientCertificate managed by KonnectExtension

  area/tests
  Kong/kong-operator#2785 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Dec 1, 2025 · KO v2.4.x

• Use multiple versions matrix for integration and e2e tests

  area/ciarea/docsarea/testsmigrated-from-archive
  Kong/kong-operator#194 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Sep 9, 2022 · KO v2.4.x
  3

• Update Gateway conditions LastTransitionTime only when needed

  area/gateway-apiarea/maintenancemigrated-from-archive
  Kong/kong-operator#187 · Filter by author mlavacca opened on Jan 16, 2023 · KO v2.4.x
  1