Release Announcements on Envoy Gateway

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.6

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v1.6.0.

This release delivers new capabilities across traffic management, security, extensibility, observability, and infrastructure — along with key bug fixes and performance improvements. We extend our thanks to the entire Envoy Gateway community for your ongoing contributions, feedback, and collaboration. Your efforts make each release possible.

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What’s New

Envoy Gateway v1.6.0 introduces powerful enhancements, resolves critical issues, and continues to improve the platform’s reliability and performance.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.5

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v1.5.0.

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What’s New

Envoy Gateway v1.5.0 introduces powerful enhancements, resolves critical issues, and lays the groundwork for upcoming changes in v1.6.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.4

Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Envoy Gateway v1.4.0.

This release represents a significant achievement, and we extend our heartfelt gratitude to the entire Envoy Gateway community for their contributions, dedication, and support. Your collaborative efforts have been instrumental in reaching this pivotal release.

Thank you for being an integral part of this journey. We are excited to see how Envoy Gateway v1.4.0 will empower your operations and look forward to continuing our work together to drive the future of Cloud Native API Gateway.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.3

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Envoy Gateway v1.3.0.

Thank you for being an integral part of this journey. We are excited to see how Envoy Gateway v1.3.0 will empower your operations and look forward to continuing our work together to drive the future of Cloud Native API Gateway.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.2

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Envoy Gateway v1.2.0.

Thank you for being an integral part of this journey. We are excited to see how Envoy Gateway v1.2.0 will empower your operations and look forward to continuing our work together to drive the future of Cloud Native API Gateway.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.1

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Envoy Gateway v1.1.0.

Thank you for being an integral part of this journey. We are excited to see how Envoy Gateway v1.1.0 will empower your operations and look forward to continuing our work together to drive the future of Cloud Native API Gateway.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v1.0

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Envoy Gateway v1.0.0, marking the official General Availability (GA) milestone for the project!

Thank you for being an integral part of this journey. We are excited to see how Envoy Gateway v1.0.0 will empower your operations and look forward to continuing our work together to drive the future of Cloud Native API Gateway.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v0.6

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v0.6!

This is the fifth functional release of Envoy Gateway. We would like to thank the entire Envoy Gateway community for helping publish the release.

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What’s New

The release adds a ton of features and functionality. Here are some highlights:

Gateway API

Upgraded to Gateway API v1.0
Added support for HTTPRoute Timeouts

Add Control Plane Proxy Telemetry

Added Support for Metrics Telemetry

Add Support for directly configuring xDS

Added Support for the EnvoyPatchPolicy API

ClientTrafficPolicy

Added Support for configuring Downstream Keep Alives

BackendTrafficPolicy

Added Support for configuring Rate limiting
Added Support for configuring load balancing

SecurityPolicy

Added Support for configuring JWT
Added Support for configuring CORS

API Updates

Added support for selectively watching resources based on Namespace Selector
Added EnvoyGateway Metrics with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry support
Added Support for InitContainers in EnvoyProxy CRD
Added Support for LoadBalancerIP in EnvoyProxy CRD
Added Support for AllocateLoadBalancerNodePorts in EnvoyProxy CRD
Added Support for LoadBalancerClass in EnvoyProxy CRD
Added Support for selecting EnvoyProxy stats to be generated
Added Support for enabling EnvoyProxy Virtual Host metrics
Added Support for Merging Gateway resources onto the same infrastructure

CLI

Added egctl stats command

Kubernetes Provider

Improved reconiliation by using the same enqueue request for all resources
Added support for reconciling ServiceImport CRD

Breaking changes

Removed RateLimitFilter, and replaced it with BackendTrafficPolicy
Removed AuthenticationFilter, and replaced it with SecurityPolicy
Moved the EnvoyProxy CRD from config.gateway.envoyproxy.io to gateway.envoyproxy.io
Converted the bootstrap field within EnvoyProxy into a struct to support merge operations.

Announcing Envoy Gateway v0.5

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v0.5!

This is the fourth functional release of Envoy Gateway. We would like to thank the entire Envoy Gateway community for helping publish the release.

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What’s New

The release adds a ton of features and functionality. Here are some highlights:

Upgrade Gateway API Dependency

Upgraded to Gateway API v0.7.1

Add Data Plane Proxy Telemetry

Added Support for Access Logging, Tracing and Metrics Telemetry

Add Support for directly configuring xDS

Added Support for the EnvoyPatchPolicy API

Ratelimiting

Added Support for Distinct Ratelimiting Based On IP Addresses
Added Support for JWT Claim based Ratelimiting
Switched to Xds SOTW Server for RateLimit Service Configuration

API Updates

Added Support for configuring EnvoyProxy Pod Labels
Added Support for configuring EnvoyProxy Deployment Strategy Settings, Volumes and Volume Mounts
Added Support for configuring EnvoyProxy as a NodePort Type Service
Added Admin Server for Envoy Gateway
Added Pprof Debug Support for Envoy Gateway
Added Support to Watch for Resources in Select Namespaces

Envoy Proxy

Added Best Practices Default Edge Settings to Xds Resources

Announcing Envoy Gateway v0.4

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v0.4!

This is the third functional release of Envoy Gateway. We would like to thank the entire Envoy Gateway community for helping publish the release.

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What’s New

The release adds a ton of features and functionality. Here are some highlights:

Upgrade Gateway API Dependency

Upgraded to Gateway API v0.6.2

Add Helm Support

Installation of Envoy Gateway can now be done through helm

Add egctl CLI Tool

Added egctl Support for Dry Runs of Gateway API Config
Added egctl Support for Dumping Envoy Proxy xDS Resources

Add Support for extending Envoy Gateway

Added Initial Framework for Building an Extension on top of Envoy Gateway

Ratelimiting

Added Support for Ratelimiting Based On IP Subnet

API Updates

Added Support for Custom Envoy Proxy Bootstrap Config
Added Support for Configuring the Envoy Proxy Image and Service
Added Support for Configuring Annotations, Resources, and Securitycontext Settings on Ratelimit Infra and Envoy Proxy
Added Support for Using Multiple Certificates on a Single Fully Qualified Domain Name
Envoy Proxy Pod and Container SecurityContext is now Configurable
Added Support for Service Method Match in GRPCRoute
Added EDS Support

Announcing Envoy Gateway v0.3

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v0.3!

This is the second functional release of Envoy Gateway. We would like to thank the entire Envoy Gateway community for helping publish the release.

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What’s New

The release adds a ton of features and functionality. Here are some highlights:

Add Support for extended Gateway API fields

Added Support for HTTPRoute URLRewrite Filter
Added Support for HTTPRoute RequestMirror Filter
Added Support for HTTPRoute ResponseHeaderModifier Filter

Add Support for experimental Gateway APIs

Added Support for the TCPRoute API
Added Support for the UDPRoute API
Added Support for the GRPCRoute API

Add Support for Rate Limiting

Added Support for Global Rate Limiting

Add Support for Authentication

Added Support for Request Authentication

Announcing Envoy Gateway v0.2

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Envoy Gateway v0.2!

This is the first functional release of Envoy Gateway. We would like to thank the entire Envoy Gateway community for helping publish the release.

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What’s New

The release adds a ton of features and functionality. Here are some highlights:

Kubernetes Support

Run Envoy Gateway in a Kubernetes cluster. Checkout the quickstart guide to get started with Envoy Gateway in a few simple steps.

Compatibility Matrix

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Envoy Gateway relies on the Envoy Proxy and the Gateway API, and runs within a Kubernetes cluster. Not all versions of each of these products can function together for Envoy Gateway. Supported version combinations are listed below; bold type indicates the versions of the Envoy Proxy and the Gateway API actually compiled into each Envoy Gateway release.

Envoy Gateway version	Envoy Proxy version	Rate Limit version	Gateway API version	Kubernetes version	End of Life
latest	dev-latest	master	v1.4.1	v1.32, v1.33, v1.34, v1.35	n/a
v1.6	distroless-v1.36.2	99d85510	v1.4.0	v1.30, v1.31, v1.32, v1.33	2026/05/13
v1.5	distroless-v1.35.0	a90e0e5d	v1.3.0	v1.30, v1.31, v1.32, v1.33	2026/02/13
v1.4	distroless-v1.34.1	3e085e5b	v1.3.0	v1.30, v1.31, v1.32, v1.33	2025/11/13
v1.3	distroless-v1.33.0	60d8e81b	v1.2.1	v1.29, v1.30, v1.31, v1.32	2025/07/30
v1.2	distroless-v1.32.1	28b1629a	v1.2.0	v1.28, v1.29, v1.30, v1.31	2025/05/06
v1.1	distroless-v1.31.0	91484c59	v1.1.0	v1.27, v1.28, v1.29, v1.30	2025/01/22
v1.0	distroless-v1.29.2	19f2079f	v1.0.0	v1.26, v1.27, v1.28, v1.29	2024/09/13
v0.6	distroless-v1.28-latest	b9796237	v1.0.0	v1.26, v1.27, v1.28	2024/05/02
v0.5	v1.27-latest	e059638d	v0.7.1	v1.25, v1.26, v1.27	2024/01/02
v0.4	v1.26-latest	542a6047	v0.6.2	v1.25, v1.26, v1.27	2023/10/24
v0.3	v1.25-latest	f28024e3	v0.6.1	v1.24, v1.25, v1.26	2023/08/09
v0.2	v1.23-latest		v0.5.1	v1.24	2023/04/20