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This PR contains the following updates:

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fluxcd/flux2 minor v2.7.5v2.8.1

Release Notes

fluxcd/flux2 (fluxcd/flux2)

v2.8.1

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Highlights

Flux v2.8.1 is a patch release that comes with various fixes. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

ℹ️ Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from Flux v2.6 to the latest version.

Fixes:

  • Fix Git commit status events being dropped for Kustomizations (notification-controller)
  • Fix health check for StatefulSets when the Pods are Pending/Unschedulable during rollout (helm-controller, kustomize-controller)
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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.0...v2.8.1

v2.8.0

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Flux v2.8.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience.

For a compressive overview of new features and API changes included in this release, please refer to the Announcing Flux 2.8 GA blog post.

Overview of the new features:

  • Helm v4 support, including server-side apply and kstatus-based health checking (HelmRelease)
  • Readiness evaluation of Helm-managed objects with CEL expressions (HelmRelease)
  • Improved observability of Helm releases with inventory tracking in .status.inventory (HelmRelease)
  • Reduced the mean time to recovery of Flux-managed applications via CancelHealthCheckOnNewRevision feature gate (Kustomization, HelmRelease)
  • Support for commenting on Pull Requests directly from Flux notifications (Provider)
  • Custom SSA apply stages for ordering resource application in kustomize-controller (Kustomization)
  • Automatic GitHub App installation ID lookup from the repository owner (GitRepository, ImageUpdateAutomation, Provider)
  • Support for Cosign v3 for verifying OCI artifacts and container images (OCIRepository)
  • ArtifactGenerator support for extracting and modifying Helm charts (ArtifactGenerator)
  • Bypass cache when fetching source objects via DirectSourceFetch feature gate (Kustomization, HelmRelease, ArtifactGenerator)

❤️ Big thanks to all the Flux contributors that helped us with this release!

Kubernetes compatibility

This release is compatible with the following Kubernetes versions:

Kubernetes version Minimum required
v1.33 >= 1.32.0
v1.34 >= 1.34.1
v1.35 >= 1.35.0

[!NOTE]
Note that the Flux project offers support only for the latest three minor versions of Kubernetes.
Backwards compatibility with older versions of Kubernetes and OpenShift is offered by vendors such as
ControlPlane that provide enterprise support for Flux.

OpenShift compatibility

Flux can be installed on Red Hat OpenShift cluster directly from OperatorHub using Flux Operator. The operator allows the configuration of Flux multi-tenancy lockdown, network policies, persistent storage, sharding, vertical scaling and the synchronization of the cluster state from Git repositories, OCI artifacts, and S3-compatible storage.

Upgrade procedure

⚠️ The Flux APIs v1beta2 and v2beta2 (deprecated in 2024) have reached end-of-life and have been removed from the CRDs.

Please follow the Upgrade Procedure for Flux v2.7+ for a smooth upgrade from older versions of Flux to v2.8.

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@renovate renovate bot requested a review from Michaelpalacce as a code owner February 25, 2026 18:11
@renovate renovate bot changed the title chore(deps): update dependency fluxcd/flux2 to v2.8.0 chore(deps): update dependency fluxcd/flux2 to v2.8.1 Mar 1, 2026
@renovate renovate bot force-pushed the renovate/fluxcd-flux2-2.x branch from 9f0b3a8 to 9574818 Compare March 1, 2026 15:26
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