What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Export Telemetry data to XCDF by @shaun-nx & @jjngx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4896, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5095, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5147, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5155, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5170, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5176, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5217, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5245, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5237, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5256, https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5167 & https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5261
• Add NIM Security Dashboard integration for App Protect WAF security violations by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5179 & https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5051
• Weight changes Dynamic Reload by @j1m-ryan in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5212
• Add use-cluster-ip annotation for ingress resources by @j1m-ryan in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4862
• Add annotations for controlling request rate limiting by @dbaumgarten in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4660
• Allow securityContext and podSecurityContext to be configurable via helm parameters by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5084
• Update default values for keepalive-requests and keepalive-timeout by @AlexFenlon in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5083
• Update zone size for transportserver resource by @AlexFenlon in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5199

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Move set above rewrite to fix uninitialized variable by @AlexFenlon in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5211
• Initialize stopCh channel for ExternalDNS by @shaun-nx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5175
• Ensure backup server is removed from upstreams when the Backup Service is deleted by @shaun-nx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5053

📦 Helm Chart

• Refactor volumes and volumeMounts to common helpers by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5159
• Move common pod label definitions to helpers by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5179
• Agent management and helm configuration by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5188

🧪 Tests

• Update vs backup service tests with retries by @shaun-nx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4797
• Add ingress rate-limit automation tests by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4919
• Add reload and req./resp. perf tests for ing and vs by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5048
• check pod status before getting logs by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5165
• update external-dns version by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5166
• add metrics logic to perf tests by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5224

🔨 Maintenance

• Fix AWS registry by @lucacome in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4825
• Add trigger for GCP Marketplace repo by @lucacome in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4829
• Report User Agent for Alpine and UBI by @lucacome in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4845
• Update UBI string for new images by @lucacome in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4893
• Update search for base image by @lucacome in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4912
• Add annotations to index and manifest by @lucacome in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5014
• Bump Go version to 1.22.1 by @jjngx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5208

📝 Documentation

• Rewrite NGINX App Protect WAF Integration Section by @ADubhlaoich in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4726
• Fix and update links in VirtualServer port tutorial by @ADubhlaoich in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4792
• Update docs to include CRD upgrade by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4851
• Update to UBI9 by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4854
• Add rate-limit example by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4907
• Add alpine fips image options to installation docs by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4962
• Fix minor documentation issues based on drift and feedback by @ADubhlaoich in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5011
• Add community page for NIC by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5038
• Fixed validation for VSR exact & regex subroutes by @jo-carter in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4744
• Add missing entries to the documentation catalog. by @Jcahilltorre in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5146
• Added few tips for TCP/UDP Load Balancing by @ssrahul96 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5117
• Update docs for aplogconf by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5251
• Add support for apLogBundle in WAF policy by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5259
• Documentation on what Telemetry Data is collected + how to opt-in/opt-out by @shaun-nx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5253

⬆️ Dependencies

Other Changes

New Contributors

• @dbaumgarten made their first contribution in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4660
• @jo-carter made their first contribution in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/4744
• @AlexFenlon made their first contribution in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5083
• @ssrahul96 made their first contribution in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5117

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/compare/v3.4.3...v3.5.0

Upgrade

• For NGINX, use the v3.5.0 images from our DockerHub, GitHub Container, Amazon ECR Public Gallery or Quay.io.
• For NGINX Plus, use the v3.5.0 images from the F5 Container registry, the AWS Marketplace, the GCP Marketplace or build your own image using the v3.5.0 source code.
• For Helm, use version 1.2.0 of the chart.

Resources

• Documentation -- https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/
• Configuration examples -- https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v3.5.0/examples
• Helm Chart -- https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v3.5.0/charts/nginx-ingress
• Operator -- https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-ingress-helm-operator