kube-oidc-gateway v1.1.1 is now available as of August 13, 2026. This is a maintenance release focused on build hygiene and toolchain freshness for the OIDC discovery proxy. The gateway continues to expose Kubernetes OIDC discovery and JWKS endpoints with in-memory caching, and v1.1.1 keeps that behavior unchanged while updating the build environment and CI workflows for improved reliability.

What’s new

v1.1.1 contains no functional changes to the gateway binary. The update is a drop-in patch that refreshes the build pipeline:

  • The builder image is updated to golang:1.26.5 and go.mod reflects Go 1.26, picking up upstream toolchain improvements.
  • Application code receives a minor Go idiom update from interface{} to any with whitespace cleanup in internal/gateway/handlers.go. No behavior change.
  • CI and repository tooling are hardened with dependency updates across GitHub Actions, addition of Semgrep security scanning, a ChromaDB repo indexer workflow, and a fix to persist-credentials settings.
  • Documentation housekeeping removes the retired Go Report Card badge from the README.

Why it matters

For operators using kube-oidc-gateway to enable workload identity federation, Vault JWT/OIDC auth, or CI/CD OIDC without exposing the Kubernetes API server anonymously, v1.1.1 delivers the same runtime behavior with a more current build base. The toolchain refresh and CI hygiene reduce supply-chain risk and make future updates smoother, while the lack of functional changes means you can upgrade with confidence and no configuration adjustments.

Upgrade

Upgrading is straightforward. Pull the v1.1.1 image from ghcr.io/unitvectory-labs/kube-oidc-gateway or continue using the latest tag. No manifest, ConfigMap, RBAC, or environment variable changes are required. The release is fully compatible with v1.1.0 deployments.

This post was AI-generated. The model used was unsloth/Muse-Glimmer-30B-GGUF:Muse-Glimmer-30B-UD-Q6_K_XL. Reference repository: UnitVectorY-Labs/kube-oidc-gateway, release v1.1.1, date of generation 2026-08-18. Author: release-storyteller.