v3.18.0

Notable Changes

• 🎓 CEL-based policies enforced through Gatekeeper is GA!
• ⚙️ Operation generate to guard CRD and VAP/VAPB generation.

Features

• add logStatsAdmission and logStatsAudit into Helm chart (#3526) #3526 (Yuedong Wu)
• Implement config pod status (#3544) #3544 (avinash patnala)
• Gator sync test support (#3098) #3098 (Anlan Du)
• add generate operation and wait for VAPB generation (#3573) #3573 (Jaydip Gabani)
• moving CEL engine to GA (#3685) #3685 (Jaydip Gabani)
• Add commonLabels to Deployments (#3684) #3684 (Wyatt Fry)
• support expansion in gator verify (#3650) #3650 (David Lee)

Bug Fixes

• vap error logging for rego only templates (#3520) #3520 (Martijn van der Ploeg)
• liniting error in gatekeeper-controller-manager-poddisruptionbudget.yaml (#3519) #3519 (tberreis)
• helm warning when setting NetworkPolicy ingress rule(s) (#3541) #3541 (Sebastian Stephan)
• Move K8scel driver from framework (#3570) #3570 (avinash patnala)

Documentation

• add alibabacloud to the list of managed services using Gatekeeper in … (#3521) #3521 (DahuK)
• refine alibaba cloud logo png (#3514) (#3524) #3524 (DahuK)
• update mutation docs (#3553) #3553 (m1schka-bdr)
• Update milestone release cadence (#3657) #3657 (Rita Zhang)
• Fix vapb argument (#3694) #3694 (Yi Rae Kim)

Code Refactoring

• Move setting up Obj to old obj on Delete logic to target handler (#3511) #3511 (avinash patnala)

Continuous Integration

• remove dockerfile buildplatform (#3491) #3491 (Sertaç Özercan)
• updating trivy version (#3691) #3691 (Jaydip Gabani)
• push container images to ghcr.io as well (#3658) #3658 (Takahiro Tsuruda)
• fix trivy throttling (#3696) #3696 (Sertaç Özercan)
• fix ghcr push (#3698) #3698 (Sertaç Özercan)
• fix gator image for ghcr (#3700) #3700 (Sertaç Özercan)
• bump to go 1.23 in gha (#3699) #3699 (Sertaç Özercan)
• gha to check for typos in docs (#3703) #3703 (Sertaç Özercan)

Chores

• removing wait of vapb deletion, cherry-pick (#3718) (#3724) #3724 (Jaydip Gabani)
• Prepare v3.18.0-rc.1 release (#3725) #3725 (github-actions[bot])
• bump the k8s group with 5 updates (#3503) #3503 (dependabot[bot])
• bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8 in /website (#3517) #3517 (dependabot[bot])
• bump the all group across 1 directory with 3 updates (#3512) #3512 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 1.22-bullseye to 1.23-bullseye in /test/image (#3505) #3505 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 1.22-bookworm to 1.23-bookworm in /build/tooling (#3506) #3506 (dependabot[bot])
• adding design doc for exporting violation interface (#3515) #3515 (Jaydipkumar Arvindbhai Gabani)
• adding helm lint ci test (#3536) #3536 (Jaydipkumar Arvindbhai Gabani)
• Patch docs for 3.17.1 release (#3540) #3540 (github-actions[bot])
• bump kubectl from v1.30.3 to v1.31.1 (#3543) #3543 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 31dc846 to 1a5326b in /build/tooling (#3533) #3533 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from ecef830 to 45b4337 in /test/image (#3531) #3531 (dependabot[bot])
• Updating GK -> opa versions (#3537) #3537 (Jaydip Gabani)
• adding common function for error reporting for constraint (#3486) #3486 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bumping opa to 0.68.0 (#3561) #3561 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump webpack from 5.76.3 to 5.95.0 in /website (#3562) #3562 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 45b4337 to 1a26d5a in /test/image (#3566) #3566 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 1a5326b to dba79eb in /build/tooling (#3565) #3565 (dependabot[bot])
• bump express from 4.19.2 to 4.21.0 in /website (#3542) #3542 (dependabot[bot])
• bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.20.2 to 1.20.4 (#3575) #3575 (dependabot[bot])
• bump the k8s group with 4 updates (#3547) #3547 (dependabot[bot])
• bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.66.0 to 1.66.3 (#3644) #3644 (dependabot[bot])
• bump the all group across 1 directory with 9 updates (#3649) #3649 (dependabot[bot])
• bump distroless/static-debian12 from 8dd8d3c to 69830f2 in /test/externaldata/dummy-provider (#3567) #3567 (dependabot[bot])
• bump distroless/static-debian12 from 8dd8d3c to 69830f2 (#3564) #3564 (dependabot[bot])
• remove setting alpha flags out of box (#3578) #3578 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump golang from 1.22-bookworm to 1.23-bookworm (#3551) #3551 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 1.22-bookworm to 1.23-bookworm in /test/externaldata/dummy-provider (#3549) #3549 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 18d2f94 to 2341ddf in /build/tooling (#3655) #3655 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from ebaf58d to ecb3fe7 in /test/image (#3654) #3654 (dependabot[bot])
• bump the all group with 6 updates (#3672) #3672 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 37189aa to 2341ddf (#3670) #3670 (dependabot[bot])
• Update constraint framework to version without k8scel (#3680) #3680 (Max Smythe)
• adding scoped ea with vap ep demo (#3687) #3687 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump the all group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#3692) #3692 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 2341ddf to 0e3377d (#3688) #3688 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 2341ddf to 0e3377d in /build/tooling (#3689) #3689 (dependabot[bot])
• bump distroless/static-debian12 from 69830f2 to f4a57e8 (#3695) #3695 (dependabot[bot])
• bump kubectl from v1.31.1 to v1.31.2 (#3671) #3671 (dependabot[bot])
• bump the k8s group across 1 directory with 5 updates (#3679) #3679 (dependabot[bot])
• bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.20.4 to 1.20.5 (#3653) #3653 (dependabot[bot])
• bump distroless/static-debian12 from 69830f2 to cc226ca in /test/externaldata/dummy-provider (#3666) #3666 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from ecb3fe7 to 2341ddf in /test/image (#3668) #3668 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 1a5326b to 2341ddf in /test/externaldata/dummy-provider (#3665) #3665 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 0e3377d to 3f3b9da (#3704) #3704 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 1f001ad to 3f3b9da in /test/externaldata/dummy-provider (#3706) #3706 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 2341ddf to 3f3b9da in /test/image (#3709) #3709 (dependabot[bot])
• bump golang from 0e3377d to 3f3b9da in /build/tooling (#3708) #3708 (dependabot[bot])
• bump distroless/static-debian12 from cc226ca to f4a57e8 in /test/externaldata/dummy-provider (#3705) #3705 (dependabot[bot])
• bump the all group with 2 updates (#3707) #3707 (dependabot[bot])
• adding enforcement point status, vapgeneratestatus (#3686) #3686 (Jaydip Gabani)
• updating VAP default failure policy to fail (#3702) #3702 (Jaydip Gabani)
• Prepare v3.18.0-rc.0 release (#3712) #3712 (github-actions[bot])
• Prepare v3.18.0 release (#3736) #3736 (github-actions[bot])