Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd
The enterprise distribution of Linkerd brought to you by Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd.
November 14, 2025 Full release notes
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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 29, 2025 The 2.18.3 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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July 23, 2025 The 2.17.3 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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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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June 9, 2025 The 2.18.1 stable point release includes bugfixes and improvements to HAZL
configuration.
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May 5, 2025 The 2.17.2 stable point release addresses
CVE-2025-43915 and includes additional
dependency upgrades.
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May 5, 2025 The 2.16.5 stable point release addresses
CVE-2025-43915 and includes additional
dependency upgrades.
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May 1, 2025 Full release notes
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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March 24, 2025 Full release notes
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March 7, 2025 Update openssl to 3.1.8 in extension-init and policy-controller FIPS
images to remediate
CVE-2024-9143 and
CVE-2024-13176 Update Go to 1.24.1 Fixed linkerd jaeger install CLI command outputting an invalid webhook image
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March 7, 2025 Updated openssl to 3.1.8 in extension-init and policy-controller FIPS
images to remediate
CVE-2024-9143 and
CVE-2024-13176 Updated Go to 1.24.1 Fixed linkerd jaeger install CLI command outputting an invalid webhook image
name Full release notes
March 7, 2025 Updated openssl to 3.1.8 in extension-init and policy-controller FIPS
images to remediate
CVE-2024-9143 and
CVE-2024-13176 Updated Go to 1.24.1 Full release notes
February 25, 2025 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2025-26519 Full release notes
February 25, 2025 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2025-26519 Full release notes
February 25, 2025 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2025-26519 Full release notes
February 12, 2025 Full release notes
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February 9, 2025 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2024-13176 Full release notes
February 9, 2025 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2024-13176 Full release notes
February 9, 2025 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2024-13176 Full release notes
February 6, 2025 Full release notes
February 4, 2025 The 2.17.1 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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February 4, 2025 The 2.16.4 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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December 23, 2024 Update Go net dependency in controller for both non-FIPS and FIPS to
remediate
GHSA-w32m-9786-jp63 Full release notes
December 23, 2024 Update Go net dependency in controller for both non-FIPS and FIPS to
remediate
GHSA-w32m-9786-jp63 Full release notes
December 23, 2024 Update Go net dependency in controller for both non-FIPS and FIPS to
remediate
GHSA-w32m-9786-jp63 Full release notes
December 13, 2024 Update Go crypto dependency in controller for both non-FIPS and FIPS to
remediate
GHSA-v778-237x-gjrc Update Go from 1.23.2 to 1.23.4 Full release notes
December 13, 2024 Update Go crypto dependency in controller for both non-FIPS and FIPS to
remediate
GHSA-v778-237x-gjrc Update Go from 1.23.2 to 1.23.4 Full release notes
December 13, 2024 Update Go crypto dependency in controller for both non-FIPS and FIPS to
remediate
GHSA-v778-237x-gjrc Update Go from 1.23.2 to 1.23.4 Full release notes
December 11, 2024 The 2.16.3 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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December 11, 2024 The 2.15.7 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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December 5, 2024 Linkerd 2.17 is a new major release that adds rate limiting, federated services,
and monitoring and control of egress traffic from the cluster. See our
Linkerd 2.17 announcement blog post
for more details.
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November 13, 2024 Update libssl3 in extension-init and policy-controller for FIPS, and in
proxy for both non-FIPS and FIPS to remediate
CVE-2024-5535 , and
CVE-2024-9143 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2024-9143 Full release notes
November 13, 2024 Update libssl3 in extension-init and policy-controller for FIPS, and in
proxy for both non-FIPS and FIPS to remediate
CVE-2024-5535 , and
CVE-2024-9143 Update libcrypto3 and libssl3 in proxy-init for both non-FIPS and FIPS
to remediate CVE-2024-9143 Full release notes
November 4, 2024 The 2.16.2 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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October 14, 2024 The 2.16.1 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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October 14, 2024 The 2.15.6 stable point release includes bugfixes and minor improvements.
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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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July 11, 2024 The 2.15.5 stable point release includes a variety of bug fixes and proxy
configuration features, including a fix for
CVE-2024-40632 .
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July 8, 2024 Updated extension-init, policy-controller, and proxy base images to remediate
CVE-2023-5678 Updated extension-init, policy-controller, and proxy base images to remediate
CVE-2023-6129 Updated extension-init, policy-controller, and proxy base images to remediate
CVE-2024-0727 Full release notes
June 12, 2024 The 2.15.4 stable point release includes a variety of bug fixes and some minor
diagnostic and configuration features.
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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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March 20, 2024 Full release notes
March 7, 2024 Updated google.golang.org/protobuf dependency to remediate
CVE-2024-24786 Updated Go to 1.22.1 Full release notes
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February 23, 2024 This is a minor update that is primarily intended to assist Enterprise Plan
users who are enabling HAZL.
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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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