Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd

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

October 31, 2025

Linkerd 2.19 is a new major release that adds support for Windows containers and post-quantum cryptography, improves Linkerd’s supply chain security, and optionally supports FIPS 140-3 validated encryption.

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July 9, 2025

The 2.18.2 stable point release includes a proxy bugfix, adds a signed multiarch SBOM index, and removes an incorrect deprecation warning in the linkerd upgrade command.

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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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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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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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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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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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