Important: Please read the migration guide.

Enhancements:

• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Support invalid HTTPRoute status (#10714 by kevinpollet)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] KubernetesGateway provider is no longer experimental (#10840 by rtribotte)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Bump Gateway API to v1.1.0 (#10835 by kevinpollet)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Fix route attachments to gateways (#10761 by kevinpollet)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Support HTTPRoute method and query param matching (#10815 by kevinpollet)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Support HTTPURLRewrite filter (#10571 by SantoDE)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Set Gateway HTTPRoute status (#10667 by kevinpollet)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Support ReferenceGrant for HTTPRoute backends (#10771 by rtribotte)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Compute HTTPRoute priorities (#10766 by kevinpollet)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Support RegularExpression for path matching (#10717 by dmavrommatis)
• [k8s/crd,k8s] Support HealthCheck for ExternalName services (#10467 by marcmognol)
• [k8s/ingress,k8s/crd,k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Migrate to EndpointSlices API (#10664 by jnoordsij)
• [k8s/ingress,k8s/crd,k8s] Change log level from Warning to Info when ExternalName services is enabled (#10682 by marcmognol)
• [k8s/ingress,k8s/crd,k8s] Allow to use internal Node IPs for NodePort services (#10278 by jorisvergeer)
• [middleware,k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Improve HTTPRoute Redirect Filter with port and scheme (#10784 by rtribotte)
• [middleware,k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Support HTTPRoute redirect port and scheme (#10802 by rtribotte)
• [middleware] Support Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only in the headers middleware (#10709 by SpecLad)
• [middleware] Add support for Zstandard to the compression middleware (#10660 by Belphemur)
• [plugins] Enhance wasm plugins (#10829 by juliens)
• [plugins] Add logs for plugins load (#10848 by mmatur)
• [server] Support systemd socket-activation (#10399 by juliens)

Bug fixes:

• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Retry on Gateway API resource status update (#10881 by rtribotte)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Do not disable Gateway API provider if not enabled in experimental (#10862 by kevinpollet)
• [otel] Bump opentelemetry-go to v1.28 (#10876 by arukiidou)
• [plugins] Fix build only linux and darwin support wazergo (#10857 by juliens)
• [healthcheck,k8s/crd,k8s] Fix Healthcheck default value for ExternalName services (#10778 by kevinpollet)
• [middleware,metrics,tracing] Upgrade to OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions v1.26.0 (#10850 by mmatur)

Documentation:

• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Fix the Kubernetes Gateway API documentation (#10844 by nmengin)
• [k8s,k8s/gatewayapi] Rework Kubernetes Gateway API documentation (#10897 by kevinpollet)
• Prepare release v3.1.0-rc3 (#10872 by rtribotte)
• Prepare release v3.1.0-rc2 (#10860 by kevinpollet)
• Prepare release v3.1.0-rc1 (#10856 by rtribotte)

Misc:

• Merge current v3.0 into v3.1 (#10902 by rtribotte)
• Merge current v3.0 into v3.1 (#10871 by rtribotte)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10853 by mmatur)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10811 by mmatur)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10789 by ldez)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10750 by kevinpollet)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10655 by ldez)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10567 by ldez)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10418 by mmatur)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#10040 by mmatur)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#9933 by ldez)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#9897 by ldez)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#9871 by ldez)
• Merge current v3.0 into master (#9807 by ldez)