v1.37.0

🐦 Migration

See our blog on how to migrate from 1.36 to 1.37: https://www.kubewarden.io/blog/2026/07/admission-controller-1.37-release

🚀 Features

• fix(kwctl): support context-aware policies when using bench command (#1877)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(audit-scanner): delete stale reports by write-set, not label selector (#1859)

🧰 Maintenance

• build: v1.37.0 release (#1916)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1906)

• chore(charts): move NOTES.txt to template directory (#1904)

• chore(deps): Update Helm chart dependencies (#1903)

• chore(deps): update rust dependencies (#1899)

• chore(deps): update actions/setup-go action to v7 (#1902)

• chore(deps): update module github.com/opencontainers/runc to v1.5.1 (#1898)

• chore(deps): update golang:1.26.5 docker digest to 3aff665 (#1897)

• chore(deps): update rust to v1.97.1 (#1900)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1901)

• build: v1.37.0-rc.2 release (#1896)

• chore(crates): missing version update (#1895)

• build: v1.37.0-rc.1 release (#1893)

• chore(docs): Regenerate with changes from clap-documentation 0.1.1 (#1894)

• feat!(controller,helm): Implement controller --cleanup and consume it in pre-delete-hook (#1879)

• ci(helm): Fix helm install for Helm 3 (#1891)

• chore(deps): update rust to v1.97.0 (#1886)

• fix(deps): update rust dependencies (#1882)

• ci(sigstore): Revert sigstore/scaffolding to v0.7.33 (#1889)

• chore(chart): remove migration script (#1880)

• chore(chart): Rename chart for Rancher (#1878)

• chore(deps): update otel/opentelemetry-collector docker tag to v0.156.0 (#1885)

• chore(deps): Update Helm chart dependencies (#1888)

• fix(deps): update go dependencies (#1887)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1883)

• chore(deps): update golang docker tag to v1.26.5 (#1881)

• feat(controller): Add tracking labels to ConfigMaps of PolicyServers (#1874)

• fix(audit scanner): Disable store side effect (#1863)

• chore(ci): Drop updatecli rust-toolchain automation (#1871)

• chore(deps): update golang:1.26.4 docker digest to f96cc55 (#1865)

• chore(deps): update fossas/fossa-action action to v2 (#1869)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1868)

• chore(deps): update rust dependencies (#1866)

• chore(deps): update rust to v1.96.1 (#1867)

• feat(controller): Strip helm bookkeeping annots on migration (#1862)

• fix: recommended policies should always have the "backgroundAudit" set to true (#1860)

• fix(migration script): Fix phase_post_migration_verification function (#1861)

• feat(migration script): Perform helm upgrade after install (#1858)

• fix(migration): drop pinned component image tags during merge (#1856)

• feat(chart): migration script enhancement (#1843)

• fix(chart): update migration script to avoid name override in future upgrades (#1839)

• build(deps): lock file maintenance (#1823)

• chore(deps): update otel/opentelemetry-collector docker tag to v0.155.0 (#1846)

• fix(deps): update go dependencies (#1847)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1845)

• chore(deps): update golang:1.26.4 docker digest to 32c0e6e (#1844)

• fix(deps): update rust dependencies (#1809)

• chore(deps): update wasmtime to 46.0 (#1840)

• chore: remove unused chart scripts (#1841)

• fix(ci): fix CI path filtering (#1837)

• chore(deps): Update Helm chart dependencies (#1836)

• build: v1.37.0-alpha release (#1835)

• fix(ci): fix some issue found during the v1.37.0-alpha release (#1834)

• chore: remove README file from chart directory (#1832)

• fix(ci): remove old chart references from updatecli scripts (#1831)

• feat(migration): install unified chart from merged legacy values (#1820)

• docs(chart): explain CRD reinstall ownership conflict (#1829)

• build(deps): lock file maintenance (#1822)

• chore(deps): update golang:1.26.4 docker digest to 792443b (#1824)

• chore(deps): update alpine docker tag to v3.24.1 (#1825)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1826)

• fix(deps): update go dependencies (#1827)

• chore(deps): update github actions (major) (#1828)

• Rename chart to adm controller (#1819)

• feat!: admission controller Helm chart consolidation (#1802)

• chore(deps): Update Helm chart dependencies (#1815)

• build(deps): lock file maintenance rust dependencies (#1814)

• fix(deps): update go dependencies (#1812)

• chore(deps): update otel/opentelemetry-collector docker tag to v0.154.0 (#1811)

• chore(deps): update alpine docker tag to v3.24.0 (#1810)

• chore(deps): update github actions to v2.81.10 (#1807)

• chore(deps): update golang:1.26.4 docker digest to 87a41d2 (#1806)

• fix(kwctl): improve reporting about host capabilities (#1804)

• ci: ignore proc-macro-error2 crate not being maintained (#1803)

• feat: Asciidoc CLI reference documentation (#1778)

• fix(deps): update rust dependencies to v2 (#1798)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1794)

• build(deps): lock file maintenance rust dependencies (#1800)

• chore(deps): Update Helm chart dependencies (#1801)

• chore(deps): update github actions to v7 (#1799)

• chore(deps): update rancher/kuberlr-kubectl docker tag to v8.1.0 (#1797)

• chore(deps): update golang docker tag to v1.26.4 (#1795)

• feat(controller): add DefaultsApplierReconciler (#1793)

• fix(controller): Append controller env vars last on policy-server (#1789)

• Bump k3d to 5.9.0 (#1791)

• fix(deps): update rust dependencies (#1786)

• fix(deps): update go dependencies to v1.44.0 (#1784)

• chore(deps): update otel/opentelemetry-collector docker tag to v0.153.0 (#1782)

• chore(deps): update rust to v1.96.0 (#1783)

• chore(deps): update rust opentelemetry packages to v0.32.1 (#1781)

• chore(deps): update github actions (#1780)

• deps(rust): update Rust toolchain to 1.96.0 (#1787)

Contributors

@flavio, @jvanz, @kravciak, @viccuad, @kubewarden-auth-token-generator[bot], @renovate[bot], @chimera-kube-bot and @Copilot