1.6.0-rc2

Main changes since 1.6.0-rc1:

• Add enableServiceLinks support to Helm chart

For a full list of changes, check the 1.6.0 milestone.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name	Image
Drain Cleaner	quay.io/strimzi/drain-cleaner@sha256:1ac389a3e843a1cd0640eee7af370230f37aa5516b7a951eb9d1951a63a00df0

New Contributors

• @padilo made their first contribution in #182
• @acgtun made their first contribution in #192

All changes

• Bump main branch to 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT by @im-konge in #178
• Add Drain Cleaner 1.5.0 to main branch by @im-konge in #179
• Update RELEASING.md after switch to GHA by @im-konge in #180
• Fix docker manifests push after docker upgrade by @Frawless in #181
• Update Quarkus platform version to 3.27.2 by @padilo in #182
• Use Strimzi GitHub Actions v1 by @Frawless in #183
• Use shared actions also in STs action by @Frawless in #184
• Fix naming of artifacts for CVE/Release workflows by @Frawless in #185
• Bump org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core from 2.25.3 to 2.25.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #186
• Bump org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on from 1.80 to 1.84 by @dependabot[bot] in #187
• [ST] Replace Test-Frame with Kubetest4j by @im-konge in #188
• Bump Quarkus to 3.27.3 by @im-konge in #189
• Update Quarkus to new LTS version 3.33.1 by @im-konge in #190
• Add enableServiceLinks support to Helm chart by @acgtun in #192

Full Changelog: 1.5.0...1.6.0-rc1