[!IMPORTANT]
FIPS compliant images are currently impacted by compatibility issues with a dependent library. We recommend against:

1. Patching older FIPS images, which could re-introduce the incompatible dependency.
2. Building new custom FIPS images.

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• GRPC healthcheck should not have keepalive time by @j1m-ryan in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5921
• Add default telemetry endpoint by @shaun-nx in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5889

🔨 Maintenance

• Add permissions for gcr login to base image build (#5860) by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5862
• release pipeline fixes by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5863
• terminate milestone api call by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5864
• Update release skip job logic by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5865
• aws marketplace id token by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5867
• add v prefix to github version by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5868
• skip closing already closed milestone by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5869
• remove fips from tests & image publishing by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5918
• ensure example versions are updated by @pdabelf5 in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5897
• Mount pyproject.toml in smoke tests by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5935
• Add missing write permission for release draft by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5946
• Image matrix by @oseoin in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5950
• Version Bump for 3.6.1 by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5895

📝 Documentation

• remove reference to auth_request off by @j1m-ryan in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5937
• add scc and update deployment by @vepatel in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5940

⬆️ Dependencies

• Bump the go group with 1 update by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5877
• Bump the go group with 2 updates by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5884
• Bump Go version - fix vulnerability in the std lib by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5930
• Bump the go group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5933
• Bump the go group with 2 updates by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5951
• Bump kindest/node from v1.30.0 to v1.30.2 in /tests in the docker-tests group by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5941
• Docker image update d41d8cd9 by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5923
• Bump the python group in /tests with 2 updates by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5926
• Docker image update d41d8cd9 by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5882
• Docker image update d41d8cd9 by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5939
• Docker image update d41d8cd9 by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5943
• Docker image update d41d8cd9 by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5947
• Bump the actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @nginx-bot in https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/pull/5931

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/compare/v3.6.0...v3.6.1

Upgrade

• For NGINX, use the v3.6.1 images from our DockerHub, GitHub Container, Amazon ECR Public Gallery or Quay.io.
• For NGINX Plus, use the v3.6.1 images from the F5 Container registry, the AWS Marketplace, the GCP Marketplace, the Azure Marketplace or build your own image using the v3.6.1 source code.
• For Helm, use version 1.3.1 of the chart.

Resources

• Documentation -- https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/
• Configuration examples -- https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v3.6.1/examples
• Helm Chart -- https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/tree/v3.6.1/deployments/helm-chart
• Operator -- https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-ingress-helm-operator