changelog

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: adwk67

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
   `security.properties`).
   Previously, arbitrary file names were silently accepted and ignored ([#777]).
 - Bump `stackable-operator` to 0.111.1 ([#777], [#778]).
+- Internal operator refactoring: introduce dereference() and validate() steps in the reconciler ([#783]).
 
 [#770]: https://github.com/stackabletech/hdfs-operator/pull/770
 [#777]: https://github.com/stackabletech/hdfs-operator/pull/777
 [#778]: https://github.com/stackabletech/hdfs-operator/pull/778
+[#783]: https://github.com/stackabletech/hdfs-operator/pull/783
 
 ## [26.3.0] - 2026-03-16