Chaos Mesh
v2.8.5ObservabilityOct 16, 2026
A maintenance release with correctness fixes for HTTPChaos and multicluster behavior. It also updates tproxy and improves dashboard query performance.
All 14 other recorded changesfixes 10 · value changes 2 · constraints 1 · removals 1
fixes (10)
- - Isolate remote-cluster API outages and retry remote chaos forwarding and deletion after recovery [#5134](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5134)
- - Restore remote cluster managers after controller restarts, refresh changed kubeconfig connections, and register all enabled remote controllers [#5132](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5132)
- - Preserve native remote experiments and isolate multi-cluster status and deletion by experiment ownership [#5131](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5131)
- - Fix Dashboard authentication Secret references being overwritten by inline credentials and support additional environment sources [#5125](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5125)
- - Fix HTTPChaos injection failure after target container restarts by falling back to the sandbox (pause) container PID [#5058](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5058)
- - Fix a naming collision in the multicluster remote chaos monitor controllers when registering multiple RemoteClusters [#5042](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5042)
- - Fix HTTPChaos TLS Secret lookup, certificate data serialization, and retries after rejected proxy configuration. Remove TLS contents from daemon logs [#5114](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5114)
- - Release background process identifiers after startup failures and terminate and reap children when process metadata lookup fails [#5110](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5110)
- - Fix convert netem delay/jitter as durations instead of strings [#5074](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5074)
- - Use the admission operation as the SubjectAccessReview verb in the auth webhook so foreground cascading deletion no longer hangs [#5079](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/issues/5079)
value changes (2)
- - Upgrade tproxy to [v0.5.6](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-tproxy/releases/tag/v0.5.6) to fix HTTPChaos recovery and return errors for invalid CA certificates [#5113](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5113)
- - Batch dashboard workflow event queries by object id to avoid N+1 lookups [#5012](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/5012)
constraints (1)
- support additional environment sources
removals (1)
- Remove TLS contents from daemon logs
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