## edge-23.11.4 This edge release introduces support for the native sidecar containers entering beta support in Kubernetes 1.29. This improves the startup and shutdown ordering for the proxy relative to other containers, fixing the long-standing shutdown issue with injected `Job`s. Furthermore, traffic from other `initContainer`s can now be proxied by Linkerd. In addition, this edge release includes Helm chart improvements, and improvements to the multicluster extension. * Added a new `config.alpha.linkerd.io/proxy-enable-native-sidecar` annotation and `Proxy.NativeSidecar` Helm option that causes the proxy container to run as an init-container (thanks @teejaded!) ([#11465]; fixes [#11461]) * Fixed broken affinity rules for the multicluster `service-mirror` when running in HA mode ([#11609]; fixes [#11603]) * Added a new check to `linkerd check` that ensures all extension namespaces are configured properly ([#11629]; fixes [#11509]) * Updated the Prometheus Docker image used by the `linkerd-viz` extension to v2.48.0, resolving a number of CVEs in older Prometheus versions ([#11633]) * Added `nodeAffinity` to `deployment` templates in the `linkerd-viz` and `linkerd-jaeger` Helm charts (thanks @naing2victor!) ([#11464]; fixes [#10680]) [#11465]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/11465 [#11461]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/issues/11461 [#11609]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/11609 [#11603]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/issues/11603 [#11629]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/11629 [#11509]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/issues/11509 [#11633]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/11633 [#11464]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/11464 [#10680]: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/issues/10680