1.14.11

We are pleased to release Cilium v1.14.11.

This release brings us reducing pressure on the BPF connection tracking and NAT maps, as well as fixes for failing service connections, HostFirewall policy updates and many more.

Security Advisories

This release addresses following security vulnerabilities:

• GHSA-3mh5-6q8v-25wj
• GHSA-5fq7-4mxc-535h

Summary of Changes

Minor Changes:

• envoy: Bump go version to 1.21.10 (#32414, @sayboras)
• Skip overlay traffic in the BPF SNAT processing, and thus reduce pressure on the BPF Connection tracking and NAT maps. (Backport PR #31797, Upstream PR #31082, @julianwiedmann)

Bugfixes:

• Agent: add kubeconfigPath to initContainers (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32008, @darox)
• cilium-cni: Reserve ports that can conflict with transparent DNS proxy (Backport PR #32419, Upstream PR #32128, @gandro)
• cni: Use correct route MTU when ENI, Azure or Alibaba Cloud IPAM is enabled (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #32244, @learnitall)
• dnsproxy: Fix bug where DNS request timed out too soon (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #31999, @gandro)
• Envoy upstream connections are now unique for each downstream connection when using the original source address of a source pod. (Backport PR #32314, Upstream PR #32270, @jrajahalme)
• envoy: pass idle timeout configuration option to cilium configmap (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32203, @mhofstetter)
• Fix failing service connections, when the service requests are transported via cilium's overlay network. (Backport PR #31797, Upstream PR #32116, @julianwiedmann)
• Fixes a bug where Cilium in chained mode removed the agent-not-ready taint too early if the primary network is slow in deploying. (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32168, @squeed)
• Fixes an (unlikely) bug where HostFirewall policies may miss updates to a node's labels. (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #30548, @squeed)
• fqdn: fix memory leak in transparent mode when there was a moderately high number of parallel DNS requests (>100). (Backport PR #32104, Upstream PR #31959, @marseel)
• ipam: retry netlink.LinkList call when setting up ENI devices (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32099, @jasonaliyetti)
• operator: fix errors/warnings metric. (Backport PR #31907, Upstream PR #31214, @tommyp1ckles)

CI Changes:

• alibabacloud/eni: avoid racing node mgr in test (Backport PR #31987, Upstream PR #31877, @bimmlerd)
• ci: Filter supported versions of AKS (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #32303, @marseel)
• ci: Increase timeout for images for l4lb test (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32201, @marseel)
• gha: configure fully-qualified DNS names as external targets (Backport PR #32104, Upstream PR #31510, @giorio94)
• gha: drop double installation of Cilium CLI in conformance-eks (Backport PR #32104, Upstream PR #32042, @giorio94)
• Miscellaneous improvements to the clustermesh upgrade/downgrade test (Backport PR #32104, Upstream PR #31958, @giorio94)
• test: De-flake xds server_e2e_test (Backport PR #32104, Upstream PR #32004, @jrajahalme)
• workflows: Fix CI jobs for push events on private forks (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32085, @pchaigno)

Misc Changes:

• bpf: host: restore HostFW for overlay traffic in to-netdev (Backport PR #31797, Upstream PR #31818, @julianwiedmann)
• bpf: tests: don't define HAVE_ENCAP in IPsec tests (Backport PR #31797, Upstream PR #31737, @julianwiedmann)
• build(deps): bump pydantic from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 in /Documentation (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32176, @dependabot[bot])
• chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.14) (#31997, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.14) (#32109, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.14) (#32373, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.14) (#31996, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update cilium/cilium-cli action to v0.16.4 (v1.14) (#32110, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium-cli to v0.16.6 (v1.14) (#32370, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.21.9 docker digest to 81811f8 (v1.14) (#31995, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update go to v1.21.10 (v1.14) (#32368, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint-action action to v6 (v1.14) (#32397, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update hubble cli to v0.13.3 (v1.14) (#32111, @renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.14) (patch) (#31823, @renovate[bot])
• CI: bump default FQDN datapath timeout from 100 to 250ms (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #31866, @squeed)
• docs: Add annotation for Ingress endpoint (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #32284, @sayboras)
• docs: Fix prometheus port regex (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32030, @JBodkin-Amphora)
• Docs: mark Tetragon as Stable (Backport PR #31987, Upstream PR #31886, @sharlns)
• Document Cluster Mesh global services limitations when KPR=false (Backport PR #31987, Upstream PR #31798, @giorio94)
• endpoint: Skip build queue warning log is context is canceled (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32132, @jrajahalme)
• fqdn: Change error log to warning (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #32333, @jrajahalme)
• fqdn: Fix Upgrade Issue Between PortProto Versions (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #32325, @nathanjsweet)
• golangci: Enable errorlint (Backport PR #31793, Upstream PR #31458, @jrajahalme)
• Improve release organization page (Backport PR #31987, Upstream PR #31970, @joestringer)
• install/kubernetes: update nodeinit image to latest version (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32181, @tklauser)
• ipsec: Debug info for transient IPsec upgrade drops (Backport PR #32385, Upstream PR #32240, @pchaigno)
• l7 policy: add possibility to configure Envoy proxy xff-num-trusted-hops (Backport PR #32265, Upstream PR #32200, @mhofstetter)
• Remove aks-preview from AKS workflows (Backport PR #32251, Upstream PR #32118, @marseel)
• Remove cilium/build from codeowners (#32146, @joestringer)

Other Changes:

• [1.14] images: update cilium-{runtime,builder} (#32443, @nebril)
• [1.14] operator: propagate CiliumClusterConfig when in kvstore mode (#32349, @hemanthmalla)
• [v1.14-backport] Introduce fromEgressProxyRule (#31926, @jschwinger233)
• ci: no longer suppported v1.25 in GKE (#32183, @marseel)
• envoy: Bump envoy version to v1.27.5 (#32078, @sayboras)
• fix k8s versions tested in CI (#31969, @nbusseneau)
• install: Update image digests for v1.14.10 (#31914, @asauber)