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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Type Update Change
fluxcd/flux2 Kustomization minor v2.7.5v2.8.2
ghcr.io/fluxcd/flux-manifests minor v2.7.5v2.8.2

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fluxcd/flux2 (fluxcd/flux2)

v2.8.2

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Highlights

Flux v2.8.2 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 enqueuing new reconciliation requests for events on source Flux objects when they are already reconciling the revision present in the watch event (kustomize-controller, helm-controller)
  • Fix the Go templates bug of YAML separator --- getting concatenated to apiVersion: by updating to Helm 4.1.3 (helm-controller)
  • Fix canceled HelmReleases getting stuck when they don't have a retry strategy configured by introducing a new feature gate DefaultToRetryOnFailure that improves the experience when the CancelHealthCheckOnNewRevision is enabled (helm-controller)
  • Fix the auth scope for Azure Container Registry to use the ACR-specific scope (source-controller, image-reflector-controller)
  • Fix potential Denial of Service (DoS) during TLS handshakes (CVE-2026-27138) by building all controllers with Go 1.26.1

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Full Changelog: fluxcd/flux2@v2.8.1...v2.8.2

v2.8.1

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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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--- kubernetes/flux Kustomization: flux-system/cluster OCIRepository: flux-system/flux-manifests

+++ kubernetes/flux Kustomization: flux-system/cluster OCIRepository: flux-system/flux-manifests

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@

     kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace: flux-system
   name: flux-manifests
   namespace: flux-system
 spec:
   interval: 10m
   ref:
-    tag: v2.7.5
+    tag: v2.8.2
   url: oci://ghcr.io/fluxcd/flux-manifests
 

@renovate renovate bot changed the title feat(github-release): update flux group to v2.8.1 (minor) feat(github-release): update flux group to v2.8.2 (minor) Mar 12, 2026
@renovate renovate bot force-pushed the renovate/flux branch from e9355d7 to 862eae9 Compare March 12, 2026 17:56
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