forkline/ingress-nginx

What's Changed

Added

• Date-based versioning — Switched from semantic versioning (v1.15.x) to date-based versioning (vYYYY.MM.DD.N). Since this project is in maintenance mode (no new features, no breaking changes), date versions more honestly communicate when the software was last maintained for security updates.
• Release automation — Added .ci/release.sh script and Makefile targets (make update-version, make update-changelog) to streamline the release process.
• GPG-signed auto-tagging — Added .github/workflows/auto-tag.yml that automatically creates a signed git tag when a release commit is pushed to main.

Fixed

• Release workflow compatibility — Updated docker_images.yml to work with date-based versions: replaced semver-only changelog-reader-action with manual CHANGELOG parsing, added --skip=validate to GoReleaser for non-semver tags, and fixed changelog body passing to avoid argument length limits.

Changed

• Helm chart — Updated charts/ingress-nginx/Chart.yaml with new versioning scheme.

Documentation

• Added AGENTS.md with maintenance mode guidelines and AI coding instructions.
• Updated README.md with date-based versioning rationale.

Container Images

• ghcr.io/forkline/ingress-nginx/controller:v2026.04.03.1
• ghcr.io/forkline/ingress-nginx/nginx:v2.2.9
• ghcr.io/forkline/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen:v1.6.9

Helm Chart

• appVersion: 2026.04.03.1

kubectl plugin

Binaries available on the GitHub Release page.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/forkline/ingress-nginx/compare/v2026.04.03...v2026.04.03.1