Release notes for cert-manager v1.19.0 #1792
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- Populate release-notes-1.19.md with major themes and highlights - Add categorized changes sections: Feature, Bug or Regression, Other - Add contributor acknowledgements and notes about upgrades and fixes Signed-off-by: Richard Wall <richard.wall@cyberark.com>
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| <p>The IP address or hostname of an authoritative DNS server supporting RFC2136 in the form host:port. If the host is an IPv6 address it must be enclosed in square brackets (e.g [2001:db8::1]) ; port is optional. This field is required.</p> | ||
| <p>The IP address or hostname of an authoritative DNS server supporting RFC2136 in the form host:port. If the host is an IPv6 address it must be enclosed in square brackets (e.g [2001:db8::1]); port is optional. This field is required.</p> |
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There's a weird whitespace character here which I had to manually delete. It was being picked up by eslint:
But it seems to be added at least 5 years ago:
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These template variables are used by a new cert-manager-release-notes tool that I'm developing in:
| | Release | Release Date | End of Life | [Supported Kubernetes / OpenShift Versions][s] | [Tested Kubernetes Versions][test] | | ||
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| | [1.19][] | Oct 7, 2025 | Release of 1.21 | 1.31 → 1.34 / 4.18 → 4.19 | 1.31 → 1.34 | | ||
| | [1.20][] | Feb 10, 2026 | Release of 1.21 | 1.31 → 1.34 / 4.18 → 4.19 | 1.31 → 1.34 | |
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The first Tuesday, four months from October 7, 2025.
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| Before upgrading cert-manager from 1.18 to 1.19, please read the following important notes about breaking changes in 1.19: | ||
| Before upgrading cert-manager from 1.18 to 1.19, please read the following important notes about breaking changes in |
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| Before upgrading cert-manager from 1.18 to 1.19, please read the following important notes about breaking changes in | |
| Before upgrading cert-manager from 1.18 to 1.19, please read the following important notes about breaking changes: |
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Not sure why the generator no longer generates html links using anchors. It now shows like this:
Not a massive deal. Would it be easy to fix that right away, or does it require further investigation?
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I'll investigate that in another PR.
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| ### Observability, Reliability, and Maintenance | ||
| - There is a new Prometheus metric called `certmanager_certificate_challenge_status`. | ||
| - POTENTIALLY BREAKING: A high cardinality label, called `path`, was removed from the `certmanager_acme_client_request_count` and `certmanager_acme_client_request_duration_seconds` metrics. It is replaced with a new bounded cardinality label called `action`. This may require updates to dashboards and alerts. |
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nit: It would be good to show an example before/after, but I guess users can open the corresponding issue, which might already contain an example.
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Agree. But I'm running out of time to get this merged before EOD. I'll revisit in another PR.
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These changes were carried out according to the release-notes sections of the release process:
I used the cert-manager release-notes tool that I'm developing in #1785 and added some narrative with the help of gpt-5-mini.
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