OPA v1.8.0

[johanfylling]

This release contains a mix of new features, performance improvements, and bugfixes. Notably:

• Support for EdDSA signatures in io.jwt built-ins, including a new io.jwt.verify_eddsa built-in.

EdDSA Support in built-ins (#7824)

Support for the EdDSA signing algorithm has been added to built-in functions in the io.jwt namespace.

This introduces the new io.jwt.verify_eddsa built-in function, and adds EdDSA support for the following built-ins:

• io.jwt.decode_verify
• io.jwt.encode_sign
• io.jwt.encode_sign_raw

This feature benefited greatly from the groundwork laid by @lestrrat in (#7638). 👏 🎉 🥳

Authored by @johanfylling reported by @aromeyer

Runtime

• cmd: Add back default cmd.RootCommand definition. (#7811) authored by @philipaconrad
  Fixing a breaking change to the go API introduced in OPA v1.7.0.
• cmd: Fix opa exec parameters (#7850, #7840) authored by @srenatus
  Fixing regressions introduced in OPA v1.7.0, where the --fail-non-empty and --stdin-input flags were dropped.
• config: accept env vars set to "", discern from unset (#7831) authored by @srenatus reported by @ManuelNowackConfinale
• handlers: Add thread-safe initialization for gzipPool (#7828) authored by @charlieegan3
• plugins: Address race in config access (#7825) authored by @charlieegan3
• plugin/bundle: Correct bundle delay behavior (#7812) authored by @charlieegan3
• runtime: Update server init check (#7818) authored by @charlieegan3

Topdown

• perf: Performance greatly improved for Object.Insert on existing key (#7820) authored by @anderseknert
• topdown,bundle,plugins: Upgrade interned jwx (0.9.x) with github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v3 (#7638) authored by @lestrrat

Docs, Website

• Update website to build from tip of main (#7848) authored by @tsandall
• ast/builtins: Remove space from count description (#7836) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Add link to logic-or/and on docs index (#7826) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Add note on using LLM in PR discussions (#7859) authored by @anderseknert
• docs: Fix broken anchor links in annotations (#7827) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Use set in the Python code example for consistence (#7860) authored by @durnik-ivo
• docs: Update frontpage (#7847) authored by @tsandall
• docs/rest-api: Add notes about policy IDs (#7837) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Use latest release rather than edge (#7781) authored by @charlieegan3

Miscellaneous

• Update organization affiliations (#7842) authored by @tsandall
• test/e2e: Avoid port exhaustion in concurrent tests (#7862) authored by @anderseknert
• server: Make TestCertReloading less verbose (#7823) authored by @charlieegan3
• cmd: Exec test wait for bundle server to start (#7821) authored by @charlieegan3
• cmd: Update tests to run sync when ready (#7835) authored by @charlieegan3
• cmd: Move accidental pkg var to local var (#7813) authored by @philipaconrad
• internal/report: Allow overriding GitHub repo (#7867) authored by @srenatus
• release: Adding Dockerfile for image used in *-patch build targets (#7864) authored by @johanfylling
• Dependency updates; notably:
  • build: Bump go to 1.24.6 (#7834, #7839) authored by @johanfylling and @thevilledev
  • build(deps): Bump go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from v2.3.0 to v2.4.0 (#7857) authored by @deeglaze
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.22.0 to 1.23.0

Release notes and downloads can be found here.