# Crossplane v2.4.2

> Orchestration & Management · 2026-09-22

A maintenance release focused on correctness fixes and dependency updates. It includes a security-related update to the OpenTelemetry OTLP trace exporter dependency, with no broad operator-facing configuration changes.

## Action needed
- **[security]** The `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace` dependency update
  - The `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace` module is updated to `v1.45.0` in this release. The update is identified as security-related.

## Other recorded changes
- 3 (defect_corrected 2, value_changed 1)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/crossplane/v2.4.2)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/releases/tag/v2.4.2)