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v2.6.4 Feature

This release adds 1 notable feature for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 9d Artifact Management
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Summary

AI summary

Fixes for OCI manifest handling and adds attestation download support for both old and bundle formats.

Changes in this release

Feature Medium

Adds support for downloading attestations with both old and bundle Cosign signature formats.

Adds support for downloading attestations with both old and bundle Cosign signature formats.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17

Confidence: high

Bugfix Medium

Fixes OCI 1.1 signature referrer manifest by including artifactType.

Fixes OCI 1.1 signature referrer manifest by including artifactType.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-17

Confidence: high

Full changelog

This release is a backport of OCI manifest fixes, and better support for cosign attestation download when you are using a mix of old Cosign signatures with the more recent bundle format.

We strongly encourage folks to continue their migration to the bundle format. The Cosign v3.1.x releases support both formats; the primary change being that the default for signing is the bundle format (although you can specify --new-bundle-format=false to sign with the old format). The verification commands in Cosign v3.1.x support both formats, and will try to detect the format for you for maximum compatibility.

Changelog

  • 26261f05411d5552949ee1d97df1f8e55ec0e13d Allow attestation download to handle both bundle types (#4996) (#5017)
  • d49a0c151125448fc247bb8c367518f46e1c0487 fix: include artifactType in OCI 1.1 signature referrer manifest (cherry-pick PR-4997 to release-2.6) (#5002)

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