Below is the auto-generated changelog, which includes all PRs that went into the release.
For a shorter version that highlights only important changes, see CHANGELOG.md.

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Update operator bundle for new requirements by @nginx-bot in #5262
• Assertion job should run on production runner by @nginx-bot in #5264
• Fix bundle annotations; fix operator PR by @nginx-bot in #5268
• Readd AllowPrivilegeEscalation: false to containers (#5277) by @ciarams87 in #5279

📦 Helm Chart

• Release 2.6.1 by @github-actions[bot] in #5298

🔨 Maintenance

• Add draft release context by @nginx-bot in #5269
• Update changelog date by @sjberman in #5307
• Update operator version by @sjberman in #5310
• Remove value from broken job by @sjberman in #5311

⬆️ Dependencies

• Bumps version for NGINX OSS, NGINX Plus, NGINX Agent and WAF compiler… by @sjberman in #5297
• Update dependencies and manually build OSS image (#5304) by @sjberman in #5306

Other Changes

• Operator Bundle v1.4.0 by @nginx-bot in #5266

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1