Argo CD v2.6.4 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 1 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Argo CD v2.6.4. Source highlight: kubectl create namespace argocd

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)

docs: add namespace to initial-password command (#12718) (#12737)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

fix: typo in doc link (#12744) (#12760)
fix: Validate chat button url only when chatUrl is set (#12655) (#12749) (#12757)
fix: suppress Kubernetes API deprecation warnings from application controller (#12067) (#12742)
fix: Use CredsStore for GoogleCloudCreds (#12391) (#12741)
fix: ensure certificate gets updated on reload (#12076) (#12696)
chore: Add unit tests for the shared health resource feature and fix docs (#12715) (#12720) (#12731)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## Quick Start ### Non-HA: ```shell kubectl create namespace argocd kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2.6.4/manifests/install.yaml ``` ### HA: ```shell kubectl create namespace argocd kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2.6.4/manifests/ha/install.yaml ``` ## Release signatures All Argo CD container images and CLI binaries are signed by cosign. See the [documentation](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/signed-release-assets/) on how to verify the signatures. ```shell -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MFkwEwYHKoZIzj0CAQYIKoZIzj0DAQcDQgAEesHEB7vX5Y2RxXypjMy1nI1z7iRG JI9/gt/sYqzpsa65aaNP4npM43DDxoIy/MQBo9s/mxGxmA+8UXeDpVC9vw== -----END PUBLIC KEY----- ``` ## Upgrading If upgrading from a different minor version, be sure to read the [upgrading](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/upgrading/overview/) documentation. ## Changes This release includes 15 contributions from 3 contributors with 0 features and 5 bug fixes. ### Bug fixes (5) - fix: typo in doc link (#12744) (#12760) - fix: Validate chat button url only when chatUrl is set (#12655) (#12749) (#12757) - fix: suppress Kubernetes API deprecation warnings from application controller (#12067) (#12742) - fix: Use CredsStore for GoogleCloudCreds (#12391) (#12741) - fix: ensure certificate gets updated on reload (#12076) (#12696) ### Documentation (5) - docs: add namespace to initial-password command (#12718) (#12737) - docs: Update kustomization example (#12555) (#12738) - docs: unset finalizer before deleting an app non-cascadingly (#10949) (#12733) - docs: 2.6 addendum for plugin.name (#12701) (#12704) - docs: link directly to HA manifests (#11970) (#12682) ### Other (5) - chore(deps): bump actions/cache from 3.2.5 to 3.2.6 (#12567) - chore(deps): bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 2.8.1 to 3.0.1 (#12689) - chore: Add unit tests for the shared health resource feature and fix docs (#12715) (#12720) (#12731) - chore: upgrade redis to 7.0.8 to avoid several CVEs (#12627) - chore: upgrade haproxy to 2.6.9 to avoid multiple CVEs (#12628) (#12658)

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