Issues

• linkerd-proxy exits 133 on GKE Axion (n4a) nodes: aws-lc aborts on an RNDR failure

  linkerd/linkerd2#15746 · Filter by author styler opened on Oct 23, 2026

• Proxy timeout annotations lose a millisecond for some values

  linkerd/linkerd2#15735 · Filter by author RaphaelFakhri opened on Oct 20, 2026
  1

• Proxy injector ignores the beta native sidecar annotation on a namespace

  linkerd/linkerd2#15733 · Filter by author spicysharkco opened on Oct 20, 2026
  1

  

• sysctl binary not found by linkerd-proxy-init

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15731 · Filter by author peej-spothero opened on Oct 19, 2026
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• Proxy ignores l5d-retry-http and l5d-retry-grpc conditions that follow a comma and space

  linkerd/linkerd2#15730 · Filter by author RaphaelFakhri opened on Oct 19, 2026
  

• Default proxy.gid and controllerGID to the matching user ids instead of leaving the group unset

  linkerd/linkerd2#15717 · Filter by author martin-mat opened on Oct 12, 2026

• policy-controller: transient API discovery errors permanently skip Gateway API watches while pod remains Ready

  bug
  linkerd/linkerd2#15716 · Filter by author lzhang-3 opened on Oct 12, 2026
  1

• Scope the policy validator to routes Linkerd owns (don't reject routes parented only by other Gateway API implementations)

  enhancement
  linkerd/linkerd2#15708 · Filter by author rsmartins78 opened on Oct 9, 2026
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• 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
  6

  

• 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

• 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
  2

  

• 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

  bugwontfix
  linkerd/linkerd2#15471 · Filter by author jaswanth9522 opened on Jul 13, 2026
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• Publish Helm charts as OCI artifacts

  wontfix
  linkerd/linkerd2#15446 · Filter by author DrFaust92 opened on Jul 6, 2026
  1