Issues

• HTTPRoute validation rejects sessionPersistence.type=Cookie unless cookie is specified

  kind/bugneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5426 · Filter by author hahewlet opened on Oct 27, 2026
  5

• conformance: mesh tests for overlapping port scopes on one Service and for Service sectionName

  area/conformance-testneeds-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5421 · Filter by author mertdotcc opened on Oct 23, 2026
  2

• Service parentRef port/sectionName semantics are missing from the Standard channel docs and inconsistent in GEP-1294

  kind/documentationneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5420 · Filter by author mertdotcc opened on Oct 23, 2026
  1

• Clarify *Route precedence resolution for Gateway Listener/Route hostname Intersection w/ unspecified spec.hostnames

  area/conformance-testneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5406 · Filter by author rostislavbobo opened on Oct 22, 2026
  3

  

• Correct wording in CRD validation and safe-upgrade error messages

  kind/bugneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5405 · Filter by author sameerforge opened on Oct 22, 2026
  2

• GEP: Add QUERY (RFC 10008) to HTTPMethod

  kind/featurekind/geptriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5391 · Filter by author DuncanDoyle opened on Oct 20, 2026
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• conformance: setting HTTPRoute retry.attempts to zero should disable retries for connection errors

  area/conformance-testneeds-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5386 · Filter by author mikemorris opened on Oct 19, 2026
  1

• Portable way to route to a Service's ClusterIP instead of its endpoints (ingress-nginx service-upstream equivalent)

  needs-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5372 · Filter by author kvaps opened on Oct 10, 2026
  3

• conformance: weighted load balancing with an invalid backendRef

  area/conformance-testneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5362 · Filter by author jgreeer opened on Oct 8, 2026
  1

• Extend ResponseHeaderModifier filter for dynamic modification

  kind/featureneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5352 · Filter by author nirrozenbaum opened on Oct 7, 2026
  1

• Apply stricter kube-api-linter (KAL) rules to experimental APIs (apisx)

  needs-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5330 · Filter by author snorwin opened on Oct 2, 2026
  2

• Interaction between Gateway and XBackend clientCertificateRef

  needs-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5302 · Filter by author snorwin opened on Sep 25, 2026
  6

  

• Extend RequestHeaderModifier for dynamic modification

  kind/featureneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5293 · Filter by author jaellio opened on Sep 23, 2026
  2

• Conformance: no coverage for HTTPS and TLS passthrough listeners on the same port

  needs-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5273 · Filter by author lexfrei opened on Sep 19, 2026
  6

• GEP: Multi Stage Routing

  kind/featureneeds-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5250 · Filter by author nirrozenbaum opened on Sep 14, 2026
  2

  

• docs: duplicate 'the' in API overview (the the Gateway)

  needs-priorityneeds-triage
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5246 · Filter by author mrchatam opened on Sep 13, 2026
  1

• GEP: Pre-Routing

  kind/featurelifecycle/frozenneeds-prioritytriage/accepted
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5224 · Filter by author jaellio opened on Sep 9, 2026
  9

• Raise the HTTPRoute rules limit from 16 to 64

  kind/feature
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5221 · Filter by author zhaohuabing opened on Sep 7, 2026

• Gateway API community call isn't synced to k8s calendar

  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5211 · Filter by author nirrozenbaum opened on Sep 1, 2026
  6

• Allow ReferenceGrant from section to grant access to all namespaces

  kind/feature
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5178 · Filter by author marvin-roesch opened on Aug 17, 2026
  7

• Standard rate limit API

  kind/feature
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5160 · Filter by author yanavlasov opened on Aug 13, 2026
  2

• GEP: Rename Core and Extended support levels

  kind/feature
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5152 · Filter by author youngnick opened on Aug 10, 2026

• Add explicit priority ordering across HTTPRoutes

  kind/feature
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5141 · Filter by author kxu-stripe opened on Aug 4, 2026
  2

• HTTPRouteRequestMirror: Should request body be mirrored?

  area/conformance-test
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5140 · Filter by author BorysekOndrej opened on Aug 4, 2026
  5

• Unfortunate CEL validation on ExternalAuth filters

  kind/featurelifecycle/stale
  kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5118 · Filter by author bittrance opened on Jul 27, 2026
  1