The headline for operators is Conditions: FlinkDeployment now reports its status the Kubernetes-native way, so your GitOps tooling and `kubectl wait` can read deployment health without scraping operator logs. The release also adds Logback logging support, bundles the metric reporters, and certifies Flink 2.2 — plus a run of reliability fixes across session jobs, savepoints, and the mutating webhook that bite anyone running the operator at scale.