# Rook v1.21.2

> Storage & Data · 2026-11-05

A maintenance release with operator-visible behavior improvements, safer secret handling, configuration additions, dependency updates, and a stricter bucket ownership rule. It also updates storage and client behavior and adds protections for secret and credential handling.

## Check if affected
- **[breaking]** Refusal of `OBC` relinking for another user's bucket
  - Applies if you configure `OBC`.
  - The object store refuses to relink an `OBC` bucket owned by another user.

## Other recorded changes
- 14 (value_changed 13, added 1)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/rook/v1.21.2)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/rook/rook/releases/tag/v1.21.2)