v0.5.0

This is still a prerelease version; however, it includes major changes
and improvements. We will cut a stable release once we have SPIKE Bootstrap
included in the SPIFFE Helm Charts.

Added

• Updates to documentation and usage examples.
• Updates to the SPIKE Go SDK around the logging API.
• Moved certain reusable features from in-tree to SPIKE Go SDK.
• A new make audit target that helps contributors run style checks and
  linters before submitting a PR.
• Enhancements to bare-metal installation scripts.

Changed

• Updated Go version to 1.25.1
• Updated SPIKE Bootstrap to be more robust and enabled it to work on
  Kubernetes too.
• Clarified documentation around path pattern and SPIFFE ID pattern matching
  in SPIKE policies.
• Slight improvements in the SPIKE logo and a brand-new landing page that
  highlights the project's vision and goals.
• Moved environment variable names to the SPIKE Go SDK as constants to prevent
  typos and to make it easier to use the SDK.

Fixed

• Bug fixes and stability improvements.
• Fixed failing unit tests on CI (that's a temporary fix that runs tests
  sequentially instead of in parallel; we will fix that soon)

Security

• Along with secrets, SPIKE Nexus now encrypts policies at rest too.

Upcoming

• A lot of ongoing design work around key rotation, encryption, and a secure
  web interface that leverages Web Cryptography API to provide a secure
  experience of managing secrets without having to interact with the command
  line.
• Ongoing work on the Cipher API to provide "encryption as a service" to
  systems and workloads that do not require to store secrets in a backing store.

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Below are the generated release notes of every commit since the last release cut:

What's Changed

• Landing Page Redesign by @v0lkan in #211
• Sync CI pipeline with makefile targets and remove golangci-lint dependency by @mertssmnoglu in #210
• remove the caching layer to enable (easier/simpler) HA by @v0lkan in #214
• cleanup before release by @v0lkan in #215
• Update logger behavior on fatal errors by @v0lkan in #216
• Move policy Spec from in-tree to the SDK by @v0lkan in #218
• remove path normalization. by @v0lkan in #219
• rename cipher-related entitites by @v0lkan in #220
• ADR update an minor refactoring by @v0lkan in #221
• SDK Update. by @v0lkan in #224
• organize jira.xml by @v0lkan in #225
• minor refactoring. by @v0lkan in #226
• replace env var names with constants by @v0lkan in #227
• Keep policy information encrypted (#81) by @doguhanniltextra in #223
• Bootstrap with ConfigMap by @v0lkan in #228
• v0.5.0 by @v0lkan in #231

New Contributors

• @mertssmnoglu made their first contribution in #210
• @doguhanniltextra made their first contribution in #223

Full Changelog: v0.4.3.1...v0.5.0