• Removed deprecated flag reportsChunkSize.

• Added --tufRoot and --tufMirror flags to configure tuf for custom sigstore deployments.
• Remove description from deprecated fields in CRDs
• Remove CLI kyverno test manifest ... commands (replaced by kyverno create ...).
• Added --caSecretName and --tlsSecretName flags to control names of certificate related secrets.
• Added match conditions support in kyverno config map.
• Deprecated flag --imageSignatureRepository. Will be removed in 1.12. Use per rule configuration verifyImages.Repository instead.
• Added --aggregateReports flag for reports controller to enable/disable aggregated reports (default value is true).
• Added --policyReports flag for reports controller to enable/disable policy reports (default value is true).
• Renamed CLI flag --compact to --detailed-results (and changed default value from true to false).
• Changed the default value of --enablePolicyException from false to true.

• Removed GenerateRequest CRD.
• Refactored kyverno chart, migration instructions are available in chart README.md.
• Image references in the json context are not mutated to canonical form anymore, do not assume a registry domain is always present.
• Added support for configuring webhook annotations in the config map through webhookAnnotations stanza.
• Added excludeRoles and excludeClusterRoles support in configuration.
• Added new flag skipResourceFilters to reports controller to enable/disable considering resource filters in the background (default value is true)
• Removed hardcoded defaults for excludeGroups and excludeUsernames. They are always read from the config map.

• Flag backgroundScanInterval was added to force background scans at regular intervals (default value is 1h).
• Flag splitPolicyReport was removed, was unused and marked for removal in 1.9.
• Webhook is no longer updated to match pods/ephemeralcontainers when policy only specifies pods. If users want to match on pods/ephemeralcontainers, they must specify pods/ephemeralcontainers in the policy.
• Webhook is no longer updated to match services/status when policy only specifies services. If users want to match on services/status, they must specify services/status in the policy.
• Flag autogenInternals was removed, policy mutation has been removed.
• Flag leaderElectionRetryPeriod was added to control leader election renewal frequency (default value is 2s).
• Support upper case Audit and Enforce in .spec.validationFailureAction of the Kyverno policy, failure actions audit and enforce are deprecated and will be removed in v1.11.0.
• Flag profileAddress was added to configure address of profiling server (default value is "").

• A new flag backgroundScanWorkers to configure the number of background scan workers (default value is 2).

• A new flag backgroundScan to enable/disable kyverno background scans (default value is true). When this is set to false, kyverno will not perform background scans and won't trigger continuous evaluation of policies.
• A new flag admissionReports to enable/disable kyverno admission reports (default value is true). When this is set to false, kyverno will not create admission reports.
• If both backgroundScan and admissionReports are set to false the entire reports system will be disabled.
• A new flag reportsChunkSize to split reports according to the number of results contained in the report (default value is 1000). This can be disabled by setting the flag value to 0.
• Deprecated splitPolicyReport flag, splitting reports per policy is always enabled, keeping it for backward compatibility, will be removed in future version.
• ReportChangeRequest and ClusterReportChangeRequest CRDs have been removed and replaced by AdmissionReport, ClusterAdmissionReport, BackgroundScanReport and ClusterBackgroundScanReport CRDs.

• A new flag protectManagedResources to enable kyverno managed resources protection (default value is false). When this is enabled, kyverno managed resources can only be modified or deleted by the controller.

• A new flag maxQueuedEvents is added to the Kyverno main container, this flag sets the up-limit of the events that are queued internally.

• A new flag maxReportChangeRequests is added to the Kyverno main container, this flag sets the up-limit of reportchangerequests that a namespace can take, or clusterreportchangerequests if matching kinds are cluster-wide resources. The default limit is set to 1000, and it's recommended to configure it to a small threshold on large clusters. Here the large clusters are considered that a policy report has more than 1k results.

• status.ready of the policy is deprecated in favor of policy.IsReady(). The implementation was changed to use status.conditions that offer more flexibility. The status.ready will be kept for a couple of releases until we remove it in the future.
• Deprecated flags have been removed.
• Flags that were overlapping with config map based configuration were removed (filterK8sResources, excludeGroupRole, excludeUsername). They can now be configured using the config map only.

• Helm charts are changed to enforce PodDisruptionBudget for multi-replica clusters and PDB is removed from install manifests.
• anyPattern for Kyverno validate policies breaks in Kubernetes v1.23.0-v1.23.2, and the fix is being tracked by this PR and will be available in v1.23.3.
• To use any/all conditions for policies that use preconditons and deny.conditions, the user can go to this resource as a good starting point.

• The Helm CRDs was switched back to kyverno chart. To upgrade using Helm, please refer to kyverno/website#304.
• With the change of dynamic webhooks, the readiness of the policy is reflected by .status.ready, When ready, it means the policy is ready to serve the admission requests.

• To add a consistent style in flag names the following flags have been deprecated webhooktimeout, gen-workers,disable-metrics, background-scan, auto-update-webhooks, profile-port, metrics-port these will be removed in 1.6.0. The new flags are webhookTimeout, genWorkers, disableMetrics, backgroundScan, autoUpdateWebhooks,profilePort, metricsPort (#1991).

• Feature/foreach validate #2443
• Feature/foreach mutate #2493
• Feature/cosign attest #2487
• Make webhooks configurable #1981
• FailurePolicy Ignore vs enforcing policies #893
• Make failurePolicy configurable per Kyverno policy #1995
• Add feature gate flag "auto-update-webhooks" #2321
• Extend the "kyverno test" command to handle mutate policies #1821

• Integrate Github Action #2349
• Use a custom repository with verifyImages #2294
• Add pod anti-affinity to Kyverno #1966
• Rename 'policies.kyverno.io/patches' to reflect actual functionality #1528
• Add global variables to CLI #1472
• Allow configuration of test image through chart values #2410
• Switch Helm CRDs back to kyverno chart and moving Policies to dedicated chart #2355
• Updating Contribution Markdown #2450
• Validate GVK in match/exclude block #2389
• Add PodDisruptionBudget in Kustomize & Helm #1979
• Upgrade Kyverno managed webhook configurations to v1 #2424
• Allow background scanning if only request.operation is used in preconditions #1883
• Add security vulnerability scan for the kyverno images #1557
• Run vulnerability scan during Kyverno builds #2432
• Sign Kyverno images and generate SBOM #2175
• Make flag name styles consistent #1991
• Improve init container to use DeleteCollection to remove policy reports #2477
• Leader election for initContianer #1965
• Sample policies should have related CLI apply/test #1994

• Autogen-controllers does not work with "any" rules #2337
• Use patchesJson6902 where path contains a non-zero index number causes validation failure #2100
• CLI apply command - not filtering the resources from cluster #2417
• Kyverno ConfigMap name not consistent in Helm/Docs and install.yaml #2347
• Fixing helm chart documentation inconsistency #2419
• Create/Update policy failing with custom JMESPath #2409
• GenerateRequests are not cleaned up #2332
• NetworkPolicy: from should be an array of objects #2423
• Kyverno misinterprets pod spec environment variable placeholders as references #2413
• CLI | skipped policy message is displayed even if variable is passed #2445
• Update minio to address vulnerabilities #1953
• No warning about background mode when using any / all in match or exclude blocks #2300
• Flaky unit test #2406
• Generating a Kyverno Policy throws error "Policy is unstructured" #2155
• Network policy is not getting generated on creation of a pod #2095
• Namespace generate policy fails with request.operation precondition #2226
• Fix any/all matching logic in the background controller #2386
• Run code-generator for 1.5 schema changes #2465
• Generate policies with no Namespace field #2333
• Excluding clusterRoles does not work if nested under any or all #2301
• Fix auto-gen for validate.foreach #2464
• "Auto-gen rules for pod controllers" fails when matching kind is "v1/Pod" #2415
• Set Namespace environment variable for initContainer #2499

• Cannot add label to nodes #2397
• Purge grafana dashboard json from this project #2399

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

• Fix any/all conversion during policy mutation (#2392)
• Fix upgrade issue from 1.4.2 to latest (#2384)

• CLI variables should be coming from the resources itself (#1996)
• Adding ownerRef with namespace for Kyverno managed webhook configurations (#2263)
• Support new policy report CRD #1753, (#2376)
• Clean up formatting in mutate test file (#2338)
• Add test case for non zero index patches with patchesJson6902 (#2339)
• Cleanup Kustomization configurations (#2274)
• Kyverno CLI apply command improvements (#2342, #2331, #2318, #2310, #2296, #2290, #2122, #2120, #2367)
• Validate path element begins with a forward slash in patchesJson6902 (#2117)
• Support gvk in CLI for policies applied on cluster (#2363)
• Update cosign (#2266)
• Allow users to skip policy validation when mutating resources (#2185)
• Allow NetworkPolicy customization (#2287)
• Patch labels to Helm templates (#2262)
• Support for configurable automatic refresh of metrics and selective exposure of metrics at namespace-level (#2268)
• Support global anchor behavior in validation and mutation rules (#2201)

• Unable to use GreaterThan operator with precondition (#2211)
• Fix precondition logic for mutating policies (#2271, #2228, #2352)
• Fix Kyverno Deployment updateStrategy (#1982)
• Helm chart releases are not gated behind something like a tag (#2264)
• Add validation for generate loops (#1941)
• Policy doesn't work when match.resources.kinds is set to Policy/ClusterPolicy (#2149)
• Kyverno CLI panics when context is added to rule, but not actually used (#2289)
• Generate policies with background:false and synchronize:false are still re-evaluated every 15mins (#2181)
• Tests applied on excluded resources should succeed (#2295)
• Kyverno CLI with context variables needs documentation (#2291)
• Kyverno CLI test requires var resolution for non-applicable resources (#2331)
• Test command result showing Notfound in result (#2296)
• any/all in match block fails in the CLI (#2350)
• JMESPath contains function behavior not consistent in Kyverno vs upstream (#2345)
• patchStrategicMerge fails to mutate if policy written with initContainers object (#1916)
• Check Any and All ResourceFilters during policy mutation (#2373)
• Support variable replacement in the key of annotations (#2316)
• Background scan doesn't work with any/all (#2299)

• Kyverno gives error when installed with KEDA (#2267)
• Using Argo to deploy, baseline policies are constantly out-of-sync (#2234)
• Policy update, flux2-multi-tenancy fails to update kyverno to v1.4.2-rc3 (#2241)
• Throws a variable substitution error in spite of no variable present in the policy (#2374)

• Remove unused variable from Kyverno CLI (#2252)

• Update cosign to v1.0.0 (#2221)
• Helm Chart - Add Network Policy Support (#2210)
• Add platform to bug template (#2246)
• Update Grafana dashboard json with respect to new set of metrics (#2244)
• Automate CLI binaries releases (#2236)
• Removing OwnerReference for webhook configurations (#2251)

• Resolve variables from the resource passed in CLI (#2222)
• Fix CLI panics when variables are passed using set flag (#2224)