chore(master): release 3.8.0

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3.8.0 (2026-05-21)

Features

• Helm operator security hardening (#1956)
• fluentbit: Add bulk_message_request_threshold to ES output plugin (#1946)
• fluentd: add pluginSortOrder field to control plugin @id sort behavior (#1927)
• fluentbit: Add hot_reload.timeout and hot_reload.ensure_thread_safety support to FluentBitConfig (#1926)
• fluentbit: add logical_op support to grep filter (#1903)
• fluentbit: feat: add storage.path support to tail and systemd input plugins (#1901)
• fluentbit: Add log_response_payload support to HTTP Output plugin (#1897)
• fluentbit: adds support for workers to syslog output (#1874)
• fluentbit: Adds support for storage.type to the Kubernetes events input plugin (#1853)

Bug Fixes

• hash-based compare to prevent unnecessary updates (#1934)
• Fix typo in field name (#1906)

Dependencies

• update ghcr.io/fluent/fluent-operator/fluent-bit docker tag to v5.0.5 (#1968)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.24.0 to 0.24.1 (#1960)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.28.3 to 2.29.0 (#1959)
• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.40.0 to 1.41.0 (#1958)
• update ghcr.io/fluent/fluent-operator/fluent-bit docker tag to v5.0.4 (#1951)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.28.2 to 2.28.3 (#1943)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.23.3 to 0.24.0 (#1942)
• Bump github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify from 1.9.0 to 1.10.1 (#1940)
• Bump actions/setup-go from 6.3.0 to 6.4.0 (#1939)
• Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3.12.0 to 4.0.0 (#1938)
• Bump renovatebot/github-action from 46.1.7 to 46.1.12 (#1937)
• Bump docker/login-action from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 (#1936)
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 (#1935)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.28.1 to 2.28.2 (#1932)
• upgrade go to v1.26.2 (#1923)
• Bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk from 1.40.0 to 1.43.0 (#1920)
• update ghcr.io/fluent/fluent-operator/fluent-bit docker tag to v5.0.2 (#1917)
• Bump docker/login-action from 3.7.0 to 4.0.0 (#1914)
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.19.2 to 7.0.0 (#1913)
• Bump renovatebot/github-action from 46.1.2 to 46.1.7 (#1912)
• Bump azure/setup-helm from 4.3.1 to 5.0.0 (#1911)
• Bump docker/metadata-action from 5.10.0 to 6.0.0 (#1910)
• Bump golangci-lint from 2.1.0 to 2.6.2 (#1908)
• Bump operator-sdk from 1.42.0 to 1.42.2 (#1907)
• Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.72.2 to 1.79.3 (#1904)
• Bump k8s.io/klog/v2 from 2.130.1 to 2.140.0 (#1895)
• Bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.19.0 to 0.20.0 (#1894)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.23.1 to 0.23.3 (#1893)
• Bump github.com/go-openapi/errors from 0.22.6 to 0.22.7 (#1892)
• Bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk from 1.36.0 to 1.40.0 (#1890)
• update ghcr.io/fluent/fluent-operator/fluent-operator docker tag to v3.7.0 (#1889)
• Bump actions/setup-go from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 (#1888)
• Bump renovatebot/github-action from 46.0.0 to 46.1.2 (#1887)
• Bump helm/kind-action from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0 (#1886)
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.18.0 to 6.19.2 (#1885)
• update ghcr.io/fluent/fluent-operator/fluentd docker tag to v1.19.2 (#1884)

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