edge-26.8.4

What's Changed

• fix: guard nil ExternalWorkload in opaque protocol (#15551) by @qoire in #15575
• fix(policy-controller): negotiate the TLSRoute API version with the cluster by @alpeb in #15584
• build(deps): bump golang to 1.26.7 by @arichardet in #15610

New Contributors

• @qoire made their first contribution in #15575

Full Changelog: edge-26.8.3...edge-26.8.4