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edge-26.8.4Networking & Messaging

Aug 25, 2026

A maintenance release with two correctness fixes and a Go toolchain dependency update. It also improves TLSRoute compatibility across Gateway API versions.

All 3 other recorded changesfixes 2 · value changes 1

fixes (2)

* fix: guard nil ExternalWorkload in opaque protocol (#15551) by @qoire in https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/15575
* fix(policy-controller): negotiate the TLSRoute API version with the cluster by @alpeb in https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/15584

value changes (1)

* build(deps): bump golang to 1.26.7 by @arichardet in https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/15610

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