Release v0.9.0 (minor)

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Summary

• Introduces Conforma supply chain policy validation for enhanced security and compliance.
• Adds and updates Helm chart schema descriptions to improve configuration clarity and automation.
• Improves CI workflows with new validation steps for Helm docs, schema, and supply chain policies.
• Fixes error handling, checksum verification, and dependency vulnerabilities for reliability.
• Updates documentation, including Helm values references and troubleshooting guides.
• Adds new unit tests for controller helpers to boost code quality.
• Updates container base images and streamlines CI tooling for maintainability.

Changes

Features

• Added Conforma supply chain policy validation and workflow (.conforma/policy.yaml, _conforma-validate.yaml).
• Integrated @Schema description annotations in Helm charts (openvox-operator, openvox-db-postgres, openvox-stack) and regenerated values.schema.json files.
• Helm values reference documentation now links to Helm-docs generated chart READMEs.
• Added troubleshooting guide for easier support.
• Added unit tests for controller infrastructure helpers.

Fixes

• Pinned Conforma policy ref and corrected ruleData field name.
• Improved error handling by wrapping bare error returns in controller helpers.
• Ensured original filenames are used for checksum verification in Helm CI.
• Corrected checksum verification paths and filenames for helm-docs and helm-schema.
• Fixed schema flags (-f/-o), added --verify=false to Helm schema plugin install.
• Explicitly added return after t.Fatal to satisfy staticcheck SA5011 and avoid nil pointer errors.
• Upgraded golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 to resolve GO-2026-5026 vulnerability.
• Used chart appVersion as fallback when image tag is empty in deployment template.
• Added kubebuilder RBAC marker for coordination.k8s.io/leases to support lease objects.

Documentation

• Mentioned Conforma policy validation in supply chain security section.
• Replaced manual helm-values.md with links to Helm-docs chart READMEs.
• Added Helm values reference documentation and troubleshooting guide.

Testing

• Added unit tests for controller infrastructure helpers.
• Fixed deployment unit test.

CI / Chore

• Added Renovate tracking for helm-docs and helm-values-schema-json versions.
• Replaced losisin GitHub Actions with direct binary installs (checksummed).
• Added helm-docs and helm-schema validation to CI workflow.
• Updated container base images for all images.
• Used helm-values-schema-json-action for schema drift check.

Other

• Minor changes to config controllers, service accounts, and scripts for schema generation.

Testing

• Run CI pipelines: validate Conforma supply chain policy, Helm chart schemas, and Helm-docs output.
• Deploy charts and verify configuration options via generated schema and documentation.
• Review troubleshooting guide and Helm values reference documentation.
• Run unit tests for controller helpers and verify error handling improvements.
• Ensure container images build and pass updated security checks.
• Confirm RBAC permissions for lease objects are correctly applied.

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Release prediction

Predicted release: v0.8.0 -> v0.9.0 (minor)
6 feature(s) 14 fix(es)

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Source: develop | Target: main | Trigger: Successful CI on develop

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