Release v0.5.3

[tkircsi]

🚀 AGNTCY Dir v0.5.3 Release

We're excited to announce the release of AGNTCY Dir v0.5.3, a patch release that improves SPIFFE identity injection reliability and chart security for production deployments.

🌟 What's New

SPIFFE Identity & Authentication Improvements

• SPIFFE CSI driver support for both dirctl and apiserver charts
• Eliminates "certificate contains no URI SAN" authentication failures
• Synchronous workload registration before pod starts
• Configurable CSI driver vs hostPath for debugging scenarios

Security & Reliability

• Automatic writable home directory when readOnlyRootFilesystem is enabled
• Fixes MCP host config file write errors in security-hardened environments
• Read-only SPIRE socket mounts for enhanced security
• Consistent behavior across both dirctl and apiserver charts

Developer Experience

• Production-ready defaults with opt-out capability
• Backwards compatible with legacy hostPath mounting
• Explicit spire.useCSIDriver: true configuration for clarity

What's Changed

• feat(dir/dirctl): add SPIFFE CSI driver support and auto home-dir volume by @tkircsi in feat(dir/dirctl): add SPIFFE CSI driver support and auto home-dir volume #724

Full Changelog: v0.5.2...v0.5.3

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