Roadmap for promoting Gateway API Extension CRDs from v1alpha1 to GA

[justin-wei-visma]

Hi Envoy Gateway team,

We are currently evaluating Envoy Gateway as a replacement for our existing Ingress NGINX setup.

Several features we require depend on the Envoy Gateway extension CRDs, especially:

• SecurityPolicy
• ClientTrafficPolicy
• BackendTrafficPolicy

According to the current API reference, these resources are still provided under gateway.envoyproxy.io/v1alpha1.

Could you please clarify:

1. Is there a roadmap or target release for promoting these extension CRDs from v1alpha1 to a stable/GA API version?
2. Are some CRDs expected to become stable earlier than others?
3. What level of backward compatibility can users expect when upgrading from the current v1alpha1 APIs?
4. Is there an issue, enhancement proposal, or roadmap item we can follow for updates?

We are considering Envoy Gateway for production use, so understanding the API stability and migration plan is important for our decision.

Thank you!