# Apoxy v0.23.0

> Introduces metrics collection with OTLP support, configurable Envoy version selection, direct HTTPRoute-to-VPCService routing, and improved tunnel reliability with numerous stability fixes

v0.23.0 brings metrics collection via a new `metrics.apoxy.dev/v1alpha1` API with OTLP stats sink support, configurable Envoy version pinning per Proxy, and direct HTTPRoute backendRefs to VPCService. This release also delivers significant tunnel reliability improvements and a broad set of bug fixes across the platform.

## Features

- **Metrics API and collection** ([c3fca55](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/c3fca55), [1658668](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/1658668), [d1cb4e2](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/d1cb4e2), [0689ca4](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/0689ca4), [0d5ad60](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/0d5ad60))
- **Configurable Envoy version** ([d84ed50](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/d84ed50), [12fd29e](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/12fd29e))
- **Direct HTTPRoute to VPCService** ([5d83cd2](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/5d83cd2))
- **Dynamic-only Backends** ([7acbd62](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/7acbd62))
- **Console subresource support** ([9bc9514](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/9bc9514))
- **Session observer** ([08a8d51](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/08a8d51))

## Bug Fixes

- **Proxy deletion** ([49ac252](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/49ac252))
- **SNAT address race** ([8f0d3ca](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/8f0d3ca))
- **Gateway nil map panic** ([00a80bc](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/00a80bc))
- **Network namespace recovery** ([fed7dda](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/fed7dda))
- **Relay connection cleanup** ([4f48641](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/4f48641), [227a50c](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/227a50c))

## Improvements

- **Tunnel reliability** ([443f680](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/443f680), [d7de291](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/d7de291), [ae8d0d4](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/ae8d0d4))
- **Tunnel buffer optimization** ([a58905f](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/a58905f))
- **Metadata generation tracking** ([65e9a0a](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/65e9a0a))
- **API content negotiation** ([d54cc03](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/d54cc03))
- **Gateway tenant attribution** ([18786b5](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/18786b5))
- **CLI YAML parsing** ([18786b5](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/18786b5))
- **Isolated resource storage** ([4432875](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/4432875))
- **Service readiness reporting** ([0e8788d](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/0e8788d))
- **Console multiplexing** ([9153270](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/9153270))
- **Console browser fixes** ([4c53dfb](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/4c53dfb))
- **Remove deprecated runtime guard** ([55cbfe3](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/55cbfe3))

## Infrastructure

- **CI migration** ([652a431](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/652a431), [bb1d6e6](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/bb1d6e6))
- **Helm improvements** ([8703219](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/8703219))
- **Standalone deployment** ([adc3f58](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/commit/adc3f58))

**Full Changelog**: [v0.22.0...v0.23.0](https://github.com/apoxy-dev/apoxy/compare/v0.22.0...v0.23.0)

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