Issues

• Policy validator webhook leaks memory proportional to admission requests (Gateway API HTTPRoute UPDATEs)

  linkerd/linkerd2#15684 · Filter by author danielha710 opened on Sep 30, 2026
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• in multi-cluster setup, probe services use the wrong port to check in version 2026.6.3

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15670 · Filter by author MichaelLi202112 opened on Sep 17, 2026
  2

• h2 library upgrade causes policy service to terminate connections from clients with a large number of policy watches

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15665 · Filter by author kylekizirian opened on Sep 16, 2026
  

• No max age / idle timeout for pooled proxy-to-proxy HTTP/2 connections — held connections pin buffer memory until pod restart or OOM

  linkerd/linkerd2#15623 · Filter by author ergdevops opened on Aug 31, 2026
  

• Bump sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api

  linkerd/linkerd2#15619 · Filter by author alpeb opened on Aug 28, 2026

• linkerd authz (and some linkerd viz paths) only recognize HTTPRoute.policy.linkerd.io

  linkerd/linkerd2#15618 · Filter by author alpeb opened on Aug 28, 2026

• Add an option (policy) to enforce mTLS for outbound traffic

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15615 · Filter by author ahmedbouzid07 opened on Aug 27, 2026
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• Investigate a better approach to HTTPRoute rule sorting in linkerd2

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15614 · Filter by author anthoturc opened on Aug 26, 2026
  

• PR #4613 — enabling jemalloc on arm64 (proxy memory never released on Graviton/aarch64)

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15613 · Filter by author arghaya-quince opened on Aug 26, 2026
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• Linkerd CNI transparent proxying does not work with gVisor network=sandbox

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15611 · Filter by author fischmaul opened on Aug 25, 2026
  

• Destination controller enters unrecoverable death spiral under mass Subscribe() — no backpressure or circuit breaker

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15583 · Filter by author nirajanchaulagain opened on Aug 18, 2026
  1

• Introduce rate limited or sampled logging

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15568 · Filter by author anthoturc opened on Aug 11, 2026

• Cleanup Gateway Install for Helm Integration Tests

  linkerd/linkerd2#15562 · Filter by author raykroeker opened on Aug 6, 2026

• Warning: v1 Endpoints is deprecated in v1.33+; use discovery.k8s.io/v1 EndpointSlice

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15561 · Filter by author Sweatha-g opened on Aug 5, 2026

• linkerd-init's iptables REDIRECT causes conntrack reply-tuple corruption, leading to intermittent probe/connection stalls (SYN_SENT [UNREPLIED])

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15505 · Filter by author PriyaJaga opened on Jul 22, 2026

• Add optional PROXY protocol support for inbound TCP connections

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15474 · Filter by author Tolsto opened on Jul 14, 2026
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• linkerd install/upgrade --crds silently overwrites Helm-managed CRDs and irreversibly bumps storage versions, breaking subsequent helm upgrade

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15471 · Filter by author jaswanth9522 opened on Jul 13, 2026
  

• Publish Helm charts as OCI artifacts

  linkerd/linkerd2#15446 · Filter by author DrFaust92 opened on Jul 6, 2026

• Support native histograms

  area/vizenhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15373 · Filter by author Agalin opened on Jun 10, 2026
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• Outbound proxy permanently stuck on stale endpoint after silent gRPC stream failure

  area/proxybug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15271 · Filter by author nirajandps opened on May 12, 2026
  4

• NetworkPolicy port rules bypassed when Linkerd proxy is injected

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15246 · Filter by author ptr1120 opened on May 8, 2026
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• Extend AuthorizationPolicy targetRef to TLSRoute

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15187 · Filter by author christofhaerens opened on Apr 20, 2026
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• bug(proxy): proxy does not adhere to prescribed resource limits

  pinned
  linkerd/linkerd2#15119 · Filter by author cratelyn opened on Apr 2, 2026
  1

• Linkerd2 not setting observerdGeneration on HTTPRoute when using it for canary rollouts

  bugwontfix
  linkerd/linkerd2#14964 · Filter by author felipesere opened on Feb 26, 2026
  7

• Support Kubernetes MCS API (ServiceExport / ServiceImport) in Linkerd

  area/multiclusterenhancementpinned
  linkerd/linkerd2#14412 · Filter by author kahirokunn opened on Aug 26, 2025
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