Known issue: The kustomize version command was broken in this release. Please use more new releases.

Breaking changes

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/5519: Fix null YAML values being replaced by "null"

Features

#5411: Add --load-restrictor completion #5467: feat: edit set secret

More better error handling

• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/5539: Include exec plugin stderr with wrapped error
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/5542: fix: improve accumulation failure message
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/5550: use Strict unmarshal when read TransformerConfig

Bug fixes/performance improvements

#5234: fix edit set image to parse both tag and digest #5621: Use require for Error and NoError

Dependencies

#5479: Revert "Switch to json-patch v5" #5541: Use canonical json-patch v4 import #5615: update dependencies google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.33.0

update internal Dependencies

#5639: Update kyaml to v0.17.0 #5640: Update cmd/config to v0.14.0 #5641: Update api to v0.17.0

cleanup Dependencies

#5044: Remove non-essential dependency imdario/mergo #5567: fix 'golang.org/x/exp/slices' dependencies #5627: Remove klog/v1 dependencies

chore

#5495: chore: move removetest.go to the internal package #5518: Update owners file #5622: Pin tool versions with hack/go.mod