v1.0.0

What's Changed

This release marks a major milestone for k8gb as a CNCF Incubating project and reflects the project's maturity.

Features, fixes, and maintenance

• Add 2026-07-08 community meeting agenda by @elohmrow in #2422
• fix: coredns reads metrics local address instead external IP or LB by @kuritka in #2418
• fix: make DNSZones optional by @kuritka in #2425
• fix: stop reconciliation when ZoneDelegation not found by @kuritka in #2426
• feat: dynamic geotags refactor for ZoneDelegation by @kuritka in #2427
• docs: clarify dynamic zone cluster participation by @dejoski in #2404
• ci: avoid cancelled Chainsaw checks by @ytsarev in #2429
• docs: update CNCF maturity to Incubating by @ytsarev in #2436
• ZoneDelegation.md - setup section by @kuritka in #2431
• docs: update v0.20.0 maturity to Incubating by @ytsarev in #2437
• docs: add July 22 community meeting agenda by @ytsarev in #2438
• fix: default CoreDNS endpoint for empty ZoneDelegation by @kuritka in #2440
• fix: (ZoneDelegations) allow empty dnsZones by @kuritka in #2441
• Fix: complex geotag discovery by @kuritka in #2459
• RELEASE: v0.21.0-rc1 by @kuritka in #2460
• fix mermaid chart rendering on ai inference demo by @elohmrow in #2443
• feat: override discovered exposed IPs via CLUSTER_EXPOSED_IPS by @aryasoni98 in #2402
• dynamic_geotags.md - explain usage by @kuritka in #2432
• docs: document partial Gslb deployment behavior by @Goutham-Annem in #2399
• feat: refactor ExtClusterNSNames by @kuritka in #2467
• fix: clarify reconciliation message by @kuritka in #2469
• Fix dynmaic tags discovery for new zones by @k0da in #2468
• feat: bump go.mod dependencies by @kuritka in #2463
• refactor: rfc1035 validation moved to utils by @kuritka in #2471
• docs: clean up website navigation warnings by @nightcityblade in #2445
• fix(docs): correct broken internal markdown links by @immanuwell in #2383
• RELEASE: v0.21.0-rc2 by @k0da in #2472
• docs: document why Dynamic GeoTags cannot work with ExternalDNS (#2464) by @aryasoni98 in #2466
• add 2026-08-05 community meeting notes by @elohmrow in #2493
• fix: zone delegation reconciliation panics on invalid rfc1035 by @kuritka in #2497
• feat: ZONE_DELEGATION_RECONCILE_REQUEUE_SECONDS as dedicated value fo… by @kuritka in #2500
• RELEASE: v0.21.0-rc3 by @k0da in #2501
• Fix empty CoreDNS readiness by @k0da in #2503
• refactor: Replace Delegationzone by ZoneDelegation by @kuritka in #2490
• feat: Add support of custom glue A prefix by @k0da in #2505
• refactor: remove extClusterGeoTags from ZD wrapper by @kuritka in #2506
• RELEASE: v0.21.0-rc4 by @k0da in #2508
• docs: fix broken Gateway API, golangci-lint, and Crossplane image links by @aryasoni98 in #2479
• docs: fix local.md Gslb sample links via canonical filenames by @aryasoni98 in #2484
• docs: polish ADOPTERS, tutorials index, typos, and registry notes by @aryasoni98 in #2487
• docs: resolve ADR-0001 with deferred annotation removal by @aryasoni98 in #2486
• Bump CoreDNS CRD Plugin to v0.6.0 by @ytsarev in #2514
• RELEASE: v1.0.0 by @ytsarev in #2518

Dependencies

• Update dependency k8gb-io/k8gb to v0.20.0 by @renovate[bot] in #2421
• fix(deps): update all non-major dependencies by @renovate[bot] in #2419
• chore(deps): update go module directive to v1.26.5 by @renovate[bot] in #2423
• chore(deps): update otel/opentelemetry-collector docker tag to v0.157.0 by @renovate[bot] in #2424
• chore(deps): update otel/opentelemetry-collector docker tag to v0.159.0 by @renovate[bot] in #2492
• chore(deps): update actions/setup-go action to v7 by @renovate[bot] in #2428
• chore(deps): update actions/setup-python action to v7 by @renovate[bot] in #2435

New Contributors

• @dejoski made their first contribution in #2404
• @Goutham-Annem made their first contribution in #2399
• @nightcityblade made their first contribution in #2445

Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v1.0.0

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