Red Hat deprecates Connectivity Link 1.4.0 and urges an update
The release notes warn that 1.4.0 can trigger authentication, API-key and gateway failures, while 1.4.3 closes policy-targeting and stability defects.
Red Hat has marked Connectivity Link 1.4.0 as deprecated and tells users to install or upgrade to version 1.4.1 or later. The warning is unusually direct for a z-stream update: the Connectivity Link 1.4 release notes say 1.4.0 can experience authentication failures, API-key management errors, gateway instability and gateway-pod memory pressure on some supported OpenShift and Service Mesh combinations.
What changed
The current release notes list 1.4.3, issued September 8, 2026, as the newest documented 1.4 update. Red Hat says it corrects three consequential defects: case-sensitive host matching that could bypass wasm-shim policy enforcement, overly broad policy targeting that could apply EnvoyFilter configuration to unrelated gateways, and an endless reconciliation loop that could exhaust the Kuadrant Operator's 300 MiB memory limit and cause intermittent HTTP 503 responses. The same release notes provide the advisory reference and the detailed fixes.
Connectivity Link 1.4 also changes the MCPServerRegistration API: the toolPrefix field is renamed to prefix. Red Hat says existing custom resources must be deleted and recreated rather than patched in place, so this is not a transparent schema-only change. The migration requirement is documented in the 1.4 notes.
Who it affects
The update matters to teams running Connectivity Link 1.4.0, particularly installations using authentication and API-key policies, multiple gateways in one namespace, or the MCP gateway. Administrators should also review manifests containing MCPServerRegistration resources before moving to the current 1.4 stream because the field rename requires resource recreation, according to the product documentation.
What to do
Red Hat's stated minimum action is to leave 1.4.0 and install or upgrade to 1.4.1 or later. For teams already planning that move, 1.4.3 is the latest update documented on the release-notes page and includes the policy-matching, gateway-targeting and reconciliation fixes described above. Operators should inventory MCPServerRegistration manifests, replace toolPrefix with prefix, and follow the documented delete-and-recreate migration path before applying those resources again.
sources
- Red Hat Connectivity Link 1.4 release notesdocs.redhat.com
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