Linkerd

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release bumps dependencies but has no functional changes from [`edge-26.7.1`].

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release uses the trust domain rather than the cluster domain for the expected tracing collector identity, updates the CNI plugin to be smarter about finding IPtables binaries, and correctly checks for Gateway API when installing with Helm, and prevents routing to undefined ports on a Service even when a ServiceProfile is present.

 ## Overall status: NOT RECOMMENDED, use [edge-26.6.3] instead [edge-26.6.3]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/releases/tag/edge-26.6.3 ### Cautions This release limits ExternalWorkloads to only endpoints within their namespace only. ### Changes This release limits ExternalWorkloads to only use endpoints within their namespace only.

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release fixes an off-by-one error that would incorrectly reject an HTTP body that was exactly the size of the configured limit (e.g., setting the cap to 1MiB would actually allow one byte less than 1MiB – thanks, [Immanuel Tikhonov]!).

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release bumps dependencies but has no functional changes from [`edge-26.5.4`].

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release fixes labeling for warning messages regarding EgressNetworks, correctly using the `egress_network` label rather than `service`. It also makes sure that debug messages use named labels rather than bare values.

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release bumps dependencies but has no functional changes from [`edge-26.5.2`].

 ## Overall status: RECOMMENDED ### Cautions N/A ### Changes This release promotes [native sidecars] to GA and makes them the default. To disable native sidecars, set the `config.linkerd.io/proxy-enable-native-sidecar` annotation to `false`.