Issues

• applyconfiguration: generated code does not compile when a struct from another package with plain fields is embedded inline

  kind/bug
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1522 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 14, 2026
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• applyconfiguration: Extract fails at random for a chain of declared types

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1518 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 13, 2026

• applyconfiguration: panic on a field of type resource.Format

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1517 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 13, 2026

• applyconfiguration: fails on a struct embedded with a named json tag

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1516 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 13, 2026

• crd: a field with an empty json name is inlined instead of named

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1515 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 13, 2026
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• crd: panic on an alias of a type from another package when the alias has another name

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1514 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 13, 2026

• applyconfiguration: fields are lost when an embedded type is an alias from another package

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1508 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Nov 11, 2026

• controller-gen v0.23.0 regresses json.RawMessage CRD generation (string vs array in allOf)

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1500 · Filter by author tmshort opened on Oct 29, 2026
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• applyconfiguration: With<Field> sets the shadowed promoted field, so the value is lost (code-generator kubernetes/kubernetes#143416)

  kind/bug
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1499 · Filter by author MaxRink opened on Oct 26, 2026

• applyconfiguration: custom MarshalJSON/UnmarshalJSON of a struct type is ignored (code-generator kubernetes/kubernetes#143415)

  kind/bug
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1498 · Filter by author MaxRink opened on Oct 26, 2026

• applyconfiguration: embedding an unexported struct generates a reference to an undefined type (code-generator kubernetes/kubernetes#143414)

  kind/bug
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1497 · Filter by author MaxRink opened on Oct 26, 2026

• envtest Stop() times out on hosts whose hostname exceeds 63 bytes (kube-apiserver identity lease label)

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1492 · Filter by author lusoris opened on Oct 21, 2026

• Bug: controller-gen accepts map keys that encoding/json cannot marshal

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1489 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Field-level Enum marker is dropped when the field's type has its own Enum (regression in v0.21.0)

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1486 · Filter by author jandubois opened on Oct 10, 2026
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• loader: on Windows a filesystem root ending in "..." loads only the root directory's package

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1484 · Filter by author lusoris opened on Oct 9, 2026

• Using DeploymentStatus from k8s.io/api/apps/v1 1.37 breaks CRDs because of optional fields

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1483 · Filter by author EraYaN opened on Oct 6, 2026
  1

• Consider stripping inline comments from all marker values

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1479 · Filter by author kannon92 opened on Sep 22, 2026
  2

• controller-gen does not support XValidation on type aliases

  lifecycle/stale
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1462 · Filter by author dongjiang1989 opened on Aug 5, 2026
  1

• controller-gen: add a flag to ignore top level object and type metadata to crd generator

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1431 · Filter by author zak905 opened on Jun 14, 2026
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• crd: nondeterministic x-kubernetes-validations order when +k8s: markers are mixed with +kubebuilder:validation:XValidation on one field

  lifecycle/stale
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1429 · Filter by author zachaller opened on Jun 11, 2026
  6

• metadata.name validation

  lifecycle/stale
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1424 · Filter by author jpbetz opened on Jun 9, 2026
  6

• Allow AtMostOneOf/ExactlyOneOf/AtLeastOneOf markers to emit OpenAPI oneOf/anyOf instead of CEL

  lifecycle/stale
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1409 · Filter by author HadrienPatte opened on May 9, 2026
  3

• Align the project with AI contribution standards

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1382 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Apr 19, 2026
  6

• Please enable Copilot reviews

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1380 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Apr 19, 2026
  10

• Inconsistent handling of YEAR substitution across generators

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1371 · Filter by author felix-kaestner opened on Mar 27, 2026
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