This release includes some significant features:

• ALPHA support for Authservice (simplified SSO for mission applications)
• ALPHA support for unicorn flavored uds-core (secure, minimal images)
• Support for PodMonitor generation via Package custom resources & support for mTLS metrics with PodMonitors

In addition there are a number of quality of life improvements:

• BREAKING CHANGE: Istio passthrough gateway is now optional
• Loki DNS configuration is standardized/functional across all distros of k8s without override config
• Istio-proxy configuration supports non-zarf namespaces
• UDS Operator logs have been adjusted for readability (reduction in default pepr log level)
• Support for Keycloak debugMode independent of devMode