v1.0.0

On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Network, we are pleased to announce the v1.0 release!
This release marks a huge milestone for this project. Several key APIs are
graduating to GA (generally available), while other significant features have
been added to the Experimental channel.

It's been four years since this project began, and we would never have gotten
here without the support of a dedicated and active community. The maintainers
would like to thanks everyone who's contributed to Gateway API, whether in the
form of commits to the repo, discussion, ideas, or general support. We literally
couldn't have gotten this far without you.

This project is nowhere near finished, as you can see from the large amount of
features being added into the Experimental Channel. With such a big set of
things still to do, contributors and contributions are more vital than ever.
Please feel welcome to join our community!!

Gateway, GatewayClass, and HTTPRoute are GA 🎉

Gateway, GatewayClass, and HTTPRoute have all graduated to GA with a v1 API
version. Although these APIs will continue to grow with future additions, the
versions of these resources available via the Standard Channel are stable and
recommended for use in production. Many implementations are fully passing
conformance tests that cover the functionality of each of these resources. These
APIs are graduating to GA with only minor spec clarifications since the v0.8.0
release.

CEL Migration

Starting in v0.8.0, Gateway API CRDs now include CEL validation. In this release
the validating webhook is no longer bundled with CRD installation. Instead we
include a separate webhook-install.yaml file as part of the release artifacts.

If you're running Kubernetes 1.25+, we do not recommend installing the webhook
and additionally suggest that you uninstall any previously installed versions of
the webhook.

If you're still running Kubernetes 1.23 or 1.24, we recommend installing the
webhook until you can upgrade to Kubernetes 1.25 or newer.

New Experimental Features

There are several exciting new experimental features in this release:

BackendTLSPolicy

A new BackendTLSPolicy resource has been introduced for configuring TLS
connections from Gateways to Backends. This allows you to configure the Gateway
to validate the certificates served by Backends. For more information, refer to
GEP 1897.

Primary Author: @candita

HTTPRoute Timeouts

HTTPRoute has a new Timeouts field on Route Rules. This allows you to
configure overall Request Timeouts as well as Backend Request Timeouts. For more
information, refer to GEP 1742.

Primary Authors: @frankbu, @SRodi

Gateway Infrastructure Labels

Gateway has a new Infrastructure field that allows you to specify Labels or
Annotations that you'd like to be propagated to each resource generated for a
Gateway. For example, these labels and annotations may be copied to Services and
Deployments provisioned for in-cluster Gateways, or to other
implementation-specific resources, such as Cloud Load Balancers. For more
information, refer to GEP 1762.

Primary Author: @howardjohn

WebSockets, HTTP/2, and More

Some coordinated work across both Gateway API and upstream Kubernetes has
defined 3 new values for the AppProtocol field on Service Ports:

• kubernetes.io/h2c - HTTP/2 over cleartext as described in
  RFC7540
• kubernetes.io/ws - WebSocket over cleartext as described in
  RFC6445
• kubernetes.io/wss - WebSocket over TLS as described in
  RFC6455

These can now be used with Gateway API to describe the protocol to use for
connections to Kubernetes Services. For more information, refer to GEP 1911.

A new CLI tool: gwctl

An experimental new CLI tool and kubectl plugin, gwctl aims to improve the UX
when interacting with Gateway API. Initially it is focused on Policy Attachment,
making it easier to understand which policies are available in a cluster, and
which have been applied. In future releases, we hope to expand the scope of this
tool to provide more detailed responses when getting and describing Gateway API
resources. Note that this tool is still in very early stages and it's very
likely that future releases will include breaking changes for gwctl. For more
information, refer to the gwctl Readme.

Primary Author: @gauravkghildiyal

Everything Else

Of course there's a lot more in this release:

Spec Clarifications

• Clarify that the Gateway Listener status AttachedRoutes field is a count of
  the number of Routes associated with a Listener regardless of Gateway or Route
  status. (#2396, @sunjayBhatia)
• Gateway: A new concept called "Listener Isolation" has been introduced to
  describe the recommendation that at most one Listener matches a request, and
  only Routes attached to that Listener are used for routing. (#2465, @robscott)
• Experimental Channel: For ParentRefs to be considered distinct, they either
  both need to specify a distinct SectionName, both need to specify a distinct
  Port, or both. (#2433, @robscott)
• Updated rules about Listener uniqueness to use the term distinct (#2436,
  @youngnick)

Status

• GatewayClass Status: A new experimental supportedFeatures field has been
  added. Implementations should populate this with the features they support.
  (#2461, @LiorLieberman, @robscott)
• GatewayClass Status: A new SupportedVersion condition has been added that MUST
  be set when a GatewayClass is accepted. (#2384, @robscott)
• Route Status: A new "PartiallyInvalid" condition has been added for all Route
  types. This condition also includes guidance for how partially invalid states
  should be handled with Gateway API. (#2429, @robscott)
• The condition reason GatewayReasonUnsupportedAddress for Accepted now ONLY
  applies when an address type is provided for a Gateway which it does not
  support.
  (#2412 @shaneutt)
• The condition reason GatewayReasonAddressNotAssigned for Programmed now
  ONLY applies to problems with dynamic address allocation.
  (#2412 @shaneutt)
• The condition reason GatewayReasonAddressNotUsable for Programmed has been
  added to deal with situations where a static address has been provided for a
  Gateway which is of a supported type, and is syntactically valid, but for some
  reason it can not be used for this Gateway (e.g. the address is already in use
  on the network).
  (#2412 @shaneutt)

Documentation

• A guide for Gateway API implementers is now included in the specification.
  (#2454, @youngnick)
• Gateway API versioning will continue to rely on two release channels -
  Standard and Experimental. New resources will start in the Experimental
  Channel with an alpha API Version and then graduate to the Standard Channel
  with a GA API version. Resources that already have Beta API versions will
  continue to have them, but no additional Gateway API resources will get a Beta
  API version. (#2446, @robscott)

Cleanup

• Validating Webhook logs now use Errorf instead of Fatalf. (#2361, @yylt)

Bug Fixes

• CEL validation for BackendTLSPolicy was fixed with corresponding tests added
  (#2491, @Ygnas)
• Fixes the API version for ReferenceGrant from v1 to v1beta1 in the
  GatewaySecretInvalidReferenceGrant conformance test YAML (#2494, @arkodg)
• Gateway infrastructure field is now a pointer (#2508, @danehans)

Conformance Tests

• h2c Backend Protocol conformance tests were added (#2456, @dprotaso)
• WebSocket Backend Protocol conformance tests were added (#2495, @dprotaso)
• New conformance test for Gateway Status AttachedRoutes (#2477, @danehans)
• Implemented the ExemptFeatures field for Experimental Conformance Profiles
  (#2515, @arkodg)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Resources related to the validating webhook such as the gateway-system
  namespace and the gateway-api-admission-server deployment have been removed
  from the installation manifests, in favor of CEL based Validations that are
  built into the CRD definition. These are still available in
  webhook-install.yaml in case you would like to optionally install them.
  (#2401, @arkodg)