Release v0.5.4

[tkircsi]

🚀 AGNTCY Dir v0.5.4 Release

We're excited to announce the release of AGNTCY Dir v0.5.4, a patch release that improves SPIFFE authentication reliability for short-lived workloads and CronJobs.

🌟 What's New

SPIFFE Authentication Reliability

• Client-side retry logic with exponential backoff for X509-SVID fetching
• Handles SPIRE agent sync delays in CronJobs and ephemeral pods
• Prevents "certificate contains no URI SAN" authentication failures
• Resilient to timing issues where SPIRE entries haven't synced to the agent yet

Reliability Improvements

• Exponential backoff strategy: 500ms → 1s → 2s → 4s → 8s → 10s (capped)
• Up to 10 retry attempts before failing
• Graceful handling of SPIRE agent-to-server synchronization delays
• Works seamlessly with SPIFFE CSI driver from v0.5.3

Developer Experience

• No configuration changes required - automatic retry behavior
• Improved reliability for CronJobs and short-lived workloads
• Better error messages when retries are exhausted

What's Changed

• fix(client): add X509-SVID retry logic for SPIRE agent sync delays by @tkircsi in Local search rework proposal #725

Full Changelog: v0.5.3...v0.5.4

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