Monthly Release for 2026.01

Gateway API monthly-2026.01 Release Notes

This is the monthly release for the Gateway API experimental channel for January 2026. This release includes the latest features and fixes from Gateway API's main branch.

Using this Release

To install the CRDs for this release, use install monthly-2026.01-install.yaml:

kubectl apply --server-side=true -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/releases/download/monthly-2026.01/monthly-2026.01-install.yaml

To build using this release in Go, include this release in your go.mod:

require sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api monthly-2026.01

and run go mod tidy. You'll find that monthly-2026.01 gets replaced by a Go pseudoversion; this is expected.

Changes Summary

Full Changelog: monthly-2025.12...monthly-2026.01

Merged Pull Requests (monthly-2025.12 to monthly-2026.01)

• action for monthly releases. (#1) @bexxmodd