19 Nov 2025

#### Bug fixes

- ebpf: Fixed loading connecttime load balancer program in 6.12 kernel [calico 11405](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/11405) (@sridhartigera)
- Fix AllowSpoofedSourcePrefixes for dual stack clusters. [calico 11374](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/11374) (@lucastigera)
- Fix (release-tool): include image tarballs in release archive file [calico 11297](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/11297) (@radTuti)
- Fix: reinstate support for VMs that are configured not to respond to ARP requests. [calico 11271](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/11271) (@nelljerram)
- Fix that IPAM allocation could leak handles when many workloads are scheduled to the same node at the same time, causing timeouts by "thundering herd". [calico 11097](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/11097) (@fasaxc)
- Make Calico's backing CRDs optional. Calico will no longer fail to start if a CRD is missing. [calico 11037](https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/11037) (@caseydavenport)
