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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd

The enterprise distribution of Linkerd brought to you by Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd.

enterprise-2.18.0

April 28, 2025

Linkerd 2.18 is a new major release that adds GitOps-compatible multicluster linking, improved support for the Gateway API, protocol declarations, and a host of other features and bugfixes.

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preview-25.1.1

January 30, 2025
  • Release candidate for the enterprise-2.16.4 release

enterprise-2.14.10-14

October 14, 2024

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enterprise-2.16.0

August 13, 2024

Linkerd 2.16 is a new major release that adds new retry, timeout, and per-route metrics to HTTPRoute and GRPCRoute types, bringing Linkerd’s Gateway API implementation to feature parity with ServiceProfiles and addressing some long-standing wrinkles with these features. Linkerd 2.16 also adds support for IPv6 and introduces an audit mode for Linkerd’s zero trust network policies.

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preview-24.5.6

May 31, 2024
  • Test build of the of the autoregistration harness

enterprise-2.15.3

May 20, 2024

The 2.15.3 stable point release includes a variety of bug fixes, usability improvements, and new diagnostic and configuration features. It also adjusts the default configuration of the HAZL load balancer to be more aggressive in shifting load to other zones.

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preview-24.5.3

May 15, 2024
  • First release of the autoregistration harness

preview-24.5.1

May 13, 2024
  • Release candidate for the enterprise-2.15.3 release

enterprise-2.15.2

April 5, 2024

The 2.15.2 stable point release includes bug fixes, CVE remediations, and some minor feature updates. It merges HAZL into the main proxy build (previous releases required a separate build), improves certain metrics, and fixes a memory leak in the policy controller.

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enterprise-2.15.0

February 21, 2024

Linkerd 2.15 is a new major release that adds support for workloads outside of Kubernetes. This new “mesh expansion” feature allows Linkerd users to bring applications running on VMs, physical machines, and other non-Kubernetes locations into the mesh.

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preview-24.1.5

January 31, 2024
  • Added Argo Rollouts support to linkerd policy generate CLI command
  • Modified linkerd policy generate CLI command to only generate policy for enterprise and preview proxies

enterprise-2.14.8-1

January 14, 2024
  • Introduce a new linkerd fips audit CLI command, to audit FIPS compliance on Linkerd-enabled clusters

preview-24.1.1

January 13, 2024
  • Initial release of Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd preview channel
  • Introduce a new linkerd fips audit CLI command, to audit FIPS compliance on Linkerd-enabled clusters
  • Introduce Buoyant license requirement, please obtain a license from https://enterprise.buoyant.io

enterprise-2.13.7-9

January 3, 2024
  • Updated Go protojson dependency to remediate CWE-121
  • Fixed an issue with ARM-based proxy containers failing to start

enterprise-2.14.6-0

December 7, 2023
  • Initial release of 2.14.6
  • Fixed an issue where linkerd inject would unnecessarily set a config.linkerd.io/init-image-version annotation

enterprise-2.13.7-8

December 7, 2023
  • Fixed an issue where linkerd inject would unnecessarily set a config.linkerd.io/init-image-version annotation

enterprise-2.13.7-6

November 17, 2023
  • Updated proxy-init image to remediate CVE-2023-5678
  • The FIPS build now includes a FIPS policy-controller. All core control plane components are now FIPS compliant.

enterprise-2.14.3-1

November 10, 2023
  • Updated proxy-init image to remediate CVE-2023-5363
  • The FIPS build now includes a FIPS policy-controller. All core control plane components are now FIPS compliant.