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What this PR does / why we need it:

Prepares Envoy Gateway v1.8.0 for release per the release process

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Add v1.8.0 release docs snapshot, announcement, and compatibility
matrix entry. Update version shortcodes and hugo.toml versions list
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Match the existing convention for v0.3 through v1.6 so the v1.8 docs
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Hi @jukie ,
could you have PR #8956 included in the release ?
It had first review yesterday, it is close to get merged I believe.

And sorry if I am being pushy here, this is the mandatory and missing feature I need to rollout all our clusters from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway.

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Hi @sboulkour, unfortunately that will need to go into the v1.9 release.

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- Kept envoyproxy#8962 fix (cherrypick targets v1.6.8/v1.7.4, not v1.8)

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* fix(api): increase RateLimitSelectCondition.headers MaxItems from 16 to 64 (#8906)

* fix(api): increase RateLimitSelectCondition.headers MaxItems from 16 to 64

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: wucm667 <[email protected]>
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* feat: policy field owner (#8538)

* feat: policy field owner

Signed-off-by: kkk777-7 <[email protected]>
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* skip invalid listener first in IR (#8577)

* skip invalid listener

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* fix specValid

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* nit

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* fix

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* MUST NOT pick one conflicting Listener as the winner

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* update

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* fix: remove cross ns policy attachment status (#8901)

* Revert "add warning for partially accepted targets"

This reverts commit 5d88fbb.

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* remove warning condition for cross-ns policy attachments without referenceGrants

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* feat: add runner event metrics (#8802)

* add metrics for runner

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* rename

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* rename

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* reuse

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* fix: respect backend endpoint hostname for health checks (#8929)

* fix: respect backend endpoint hostname for health checks

### Summary
- Keep BackendTrafficPolicy HTTP health check hostnames as explicit cluster-level hosts, and leave route-derived host fallback to xDS cluster translation.
- Preserve Backend endpoint hostnames as per-endpoint overrides via Endpoint.HealthCheckConfig.hostname, ahead of the route fallback.
- Update gatewayapi/xDS fixtures, release notes, and generated API docs/CRDs for the host selection order.

### Test plan
- go test ./internal/ir
- go test ./internal/xds/translator
- go test ./internal/gatewayapi -run TestTranslate/backendtrafficpolicy
- go test ./internal/gatewayapi -run TestTranslate/(clienttrafficpolicy-http-health-check|envoyextensionpolicy-with-extproc-with-retries|envoyextensionpolicy-with-extproc-with-traffic-features|envoyproxy-accesslog-with-traffic|envoyproxy-tracing-backend-uds|envoyproxy-tracing-backend|securitypolicy-with-jwt-backendcluster|securitypolicy-with-jwt-backendsettings)
- make generate
- make manifests
- git diff --check

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* fix gen

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* fix(helm): propagate commonLabels to RBAC resources (#8818)

* feat(helm): propagate commonLabels to RBAC resources

Issue #8817 reported that 'helm template ... --set
commonLabels.custom-label=custom-value' left ClusterRole,
ClusterRoleBinding, Role, and RoleBinding resources unlabelled.
The other resources in the chart already include 'eg.labels' in
their metadata - which picks up 'commonLabels' via the helper
at _helpers.tpl:43 - but envoy-gateway-rbac.yaml didn't set any
labels block.

Add 'labels: {{- include "eg.labels" . | nindent 4 }}' on every
Role / RoleBinding / ClusterRole / ClusterRoleBinding declared in
envoy-gateway-rbac.yaml. Matches the existing labels pattern used
in certgen-rbac.yaml and envoy-gateway-deployment.yaml. Scopes are
'$' inside the watched-namespaces 'range' and '.' at the template
root, same rule the helper block inside the file already used.

Verified locally with:
  helm dependency update charts/gateway-helm
  envsubst < charts/gateway-helm/values.tmpl.yaml > \
    charts/gateway-helm/values.yaml
  helm template eg charts/gateway-helm \
    --set commonLabels.custom-label=custom-value | yq ...

All four RBAC resources now emit 'custom-label: custom-value' in
their metadata.labels, matching the issue's repro steps. Cert-gen
RBAC resources already carried it; this PR brings the core
envoy-gateway RBAC set into parity.

Fixes #8817

Signed-off-by: Matt Van Horn <[email protected]>

* chore: regenerate helm-template snapshots for RBAC labels

Run 'make helm-template.gateway-helm' to regenerate the snapshot fixtures
after the envoy-gateway-rbac.yaml labels change. Adds the 'labels:' block
to the RBAC resources in all 27 test cases.

Signed-off-by: Matt Van Horn <[email protected]>

* fix gen

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* add release note

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* fix(translator): set ListenerSet and listener Accepted:True for InvalidCertificateRef (#8871)

* fix(translator): set ListenerSet and listener Accepted:True for InvalidCertificateRef

When a ListenerSet listener has an unresolvable TLS certificate reference
(InvalidCertificateRef or RefNotPermitted), Accepted: False was incorrectly
set on both the listener and ListenerSet object. The Gateway API spec places
InvalidCertificateRef exclusively under ResolvedRefs, not Accepted — a missing
certificate is a reference resolution concern, not a structural one.

Fixes #8870

Signed-off-by: apkatsikas <[email protected]>

* chore: fix gofumpt formatting in validateListenerConditions

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* fix(translator): separate RefNotPermitted from InvalidCertificateRef handling

Unlike InvalidCertificateRef, RefNotPermitted should not set Accepted:True.
Update unit test fixtures to match.

Signed-off-by: apkatsikas <[email protected]>

* fix gen

Signed-off-by: zirain <[email protected]>

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* fix: do not downgrade ALPN for only hostnames-overlapping listeners (#8934)

fix: do not downgrade ALPN for overlapping hostnames withoug SANs overlapping

Signed-off-by: Huabing (Robin) Zhao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: jukie <[email protected]>

* feat: enableDeferredCreationStats by default (#8937)

* feat: enableDeferredCreationStats by default

Signed-off-by: zirain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: jukie <[email protected]>

* fix: restore last transition time in merge status conditions (#8962)

* fix: restore last transition time in merge status conditions

Signed-off-by: Rudrakh Panigrahi <[email protected]>

* add release note

Signed-off-by: Rudrakh Panigrahi <[email protected]>

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* [release/v1.8] v1.8.0 release notes

Cherry-picked release-notes/v1.8.0.yaml and VERSION bump from #8942.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kota Kimura <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Katsikas <[email protected]>
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nguyenptk pushed a commit to nguyenptk/gateway that referenced this pull request May 15, 2026
* release-notes

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* [release/v1.8] v1.8.0 release docs and announcement

Add v1.8.0 release docs snapshot, announcement, and compatibility
matrix entry. Update version shortcodes and hugo.toml versions list
for the new minor release.

Signed-off-by: jukie <[email protected]>

* chore: ignore site/content/en/v1.8/ in markdown lint

Match the existing convention for v0.3 through v1.6 so the v1.8 docs
snapshot does not fail markdown lint due to inherited trailing-space
artifacts in latest/api/.

Signed-off-by: jukie <[email protected]>

* gen

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* rewording

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* missing release note

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* Release date and apply some rewording

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cleman95 pushed a commit to cleman95/gateway that referenced this pull request Jun 25, 2026
* release-notes

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* [release/v1.8] v1.8.0 release docs and announcement

Add v1.8.0 release docs snapshot, announcement, and compatibility
matrix entry. Update version shortcodes and hugo.toml versions list
for the new minor release.

Signed-off-by: jukie <[email protected]>

* chore: ignore site/content/en/v1.8/ in markdown lint

Match the existing convention for v0.3 through v1.6 so the v1.8 docs
snapshot does not fail markdown lint due to inherited trailing-space
artifacts in latest/api/.

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* gen

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* rewording

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* missing release note

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* Release date and apply some rewording

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