merge main

Author: adwk67

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/new_version.md

@@ -32,5 +32,4 @@ Part of <https://github.com/stackabletech/issues/issues/TRACKING_ISSUE>
 ### Bump Rust Dependencies
 
 - [ ] Bump `stackable-operator` and friends
-- [ ] Bump `product-config`
 - [ ] Bump all other dependencies

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/normal-issue.md

@@ -20,5 +20,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
       - uses: rustsec/audit-check@69366f33c96575abad1ee0dba8212993eecbe998 # v2.0.0
+        # Build against stable because cargo-audit sometimes depends on things
+        # that require a newer Rust version than our pinned toolchain. This does
+        # not influence the result, so it should be safe.
+        env:
+          RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN: stable
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/pre-release-rust-deps.md

@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- Internal operator refactoring: introduce a build() step in the reconciler that
+  assembles all relevant Kubernetes resources before anything is applied ([#985]).
+
+[#985]: https://github.com/stackabletech/kafka-operator/pull/985
+
+## [26.7.0] - 2026-07-21
+
+## [26.7.0-rc1] - 2026-07-16
+
 ### Added
 
 - BREAKING: Add required CLI argument and env var to set the image repository used to construct final product image names: `IMAGE_REPOSITORY` (`--image-repository`), eg. `oci.example.org/my/namespace` ([#961]).

.github/workflows/general_daily_security.yml

@@ -28,22 +28,15 @@ docker-build:
 	docker build --force-rm --build-arg VERSION=${VERSION} -t "${OCI_REGISTRY_HOSTNAME}/${OCI_REGISTRY_PROJECT_IMAGES}/${OPERATOR_NAME}:${VERSION}-${ARCH}" -f docker/Dockerfile .
 
 ## Chart related targets
-compile-chart: version crds config
+compile-chart: version crds
 
 chart-clean:
-	rm -rf "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/configs"
 	rm -rf "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/crds"
 
 version:
 	cat "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/Chart.yaml" | yq ".version = \"${VERSION}\" | .appVersion = \"${VERSION}\"" > "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/Chart.yaml.new"
 	mv "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/Chart.yaml.new" "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/Chart.yaml"
 
-config:
-	if [ -d "deploy/config-spec/" ]; then\
-		mkdir -p "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/configs";\
-		cp -r deploy/config-spec/* "deploy/helm/${OPERATOR_NAME}/configs";\
-	fi
-
 # We generate a crds.yaml, so that the effect of code changes are visible.
 # The operator will take care of the CRD rollout itself.
 crds:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -151,12 +151,6 @@ rec {
       pkgsTarget.util-linuxMinimal
     ];
     config = {
-      Env =
-        let
-          fileRefVars = {
-            PRODUCT_CONFIG = deploy/config-spec/properties.yaml;
-          };
-        in lib.concatLists (lib.mapAttrsToList (env: path: lib.optional (lib.pathExists path) "${env}=${path}") fileRefVars);
       Entrypoint = [ entrypoint ];
       Cmd = [ "run" ];
     };