Enhancements:

• Promtail will be replaced with Vector to enable shipping logs outside of the cluster to a SIEM and other storage locations.
• Updates to Authservice will be batched to reduce churn/cycling of Authservice pods.
• Grafana HA testing and documentation.

CI Updates:

• Nightly testing on RKE2
• Nightly testing on AKS
• E2E testing of Grafana

Bug Fixes/Misc Changes:

• Improvements around failure scenarios with authn/authz behavior (ensuring applications remain protected)
• Proper termination of Istio sidecars in all scenarios
• Fix for mutation annotations being added multiple times

Documentation:

• DNS Setup/Assumptions
• Package and Exemption CR
• Pepr Policy docs update