Open Policy Agent Files

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

• Improved OPA SDK/API for better extensibility

SDK Improvements

The OPA SDK/API has been improved to provide better extensibility an more points of integration for developers.

• ast: Add DefaultModuleLoader (#7794) authored by @srenatus
• ast: Add feature registration from the outside (#7782) authored by @srenatus
• bundle: Add support for bundle store and activation plugins (#7771) authored by @philipaconrad
• cmd: Allow branding (#7797) authored by @srenatus
• decisionlogs: Add custom fields grab bag (#7793) authored by @srenatus
• plugins: allow registering handlerfuncs with name+path (#7769) authored by @srenatus
• rego: Expose QueryTracers, tracing.Options and Cancel from QueryContext (#7767) authored by @philipaconrad
• rego: Pass along TracingOpts into EvalContext (#7778) authored by @srenatus
• runtime: add ExtraDiscoveryOpts to runtime.Params (#7766) authored by @srenatus
• sdk: Allow for setting default options for all instances (#7760) authored by @srenatus
• server: Add hooks wiring + new hooks for inter-query caches (#7775) authored by @srenatus
• server: Ensure that wrapped middlewares all support http.Flusher (#7772) authored by @srenatus
• server/authorizer: Allow adding paths to validator (#7792) authored by @philipaconrad
• server+plugins: Allow plugins to inject http handler middlewares (#7789) authored by @srenatus reported by @deeglaze
• store+runtime: Extension points for custom stores (#7779) authored by @srenatus
• test+eval: Add helper to smuggle compiler through context (#7790) authored by @srenatus
• tester: Support uint64 and float64 metrics in runBenchmark (#7761) authored by @srenatus

Runtime, Tooling

• build: Show a warning when .manifest is ignored (#7807) authored by @charlieegan3
• cli: Avoid os.Exit() in Run() funcs (#7788) authored by @srenatus
• config: Keep unknown env replacements (#7786) authored by @srenatus
• format: Not bracketing keywords in imports (#7742) authored by @johanfylling
• loader: Add bundle lazy loading mode across the runtime. (#7768) authored by @philipaconrad
• loader: Pass bundle name in AsBundle() (#7798) authored by @srenatus
• opa exec: stop plugins before exit (#7760) authored by @srenatus
• plugins/discovery: Make Factories() merge the factories (#7777) authored by @srenatus
• plugins/discovery: Replace environment variables after evaluation (#7787) authored by @philipaconrad
• plugins/logs: Add experimental intermediate results field (#7796) authored by @philipaconrad
• report: Fetching latest OPA release version from GitHub (#7756) authored by @johanfylling
  OPA will no longer send telemetry data when fetching the latest release version.
• runtime: Allow enabling NDBCache by default (#7780) authored by @srenatus
• server+logging: Add BatchDecisionID field to Decision Logs (#7791) authored by @philipaconrad
• store: Improve conflicting root error message (#7806) authored by @charlieegan3

Compiler, Topdown and Rego

• perf: AST compiler optimizations (#7740) authored by @anderseknert

Docs, Website

Note: While we have been working on the new website we have been showing the edge documentation contents (as contents and framework changes often must go hand in hand). Now that the website development pace has slowed and the functionality is more stable, we will be returning to showing the documentation content from the latest release instead. Please use the edge documentation site to review new changes. PR previews are also based on the latest branch commit. This change will be made to show the v1.7.0 release shortly after publishing.

• docs: Add examples for crypto.sha256 and base64.encode built-in functions (#7762) authored by @ToluGIT
• docs: Break out the built-in categories in policy ref (#7722) authored by @sky3n3t
• docs: Correctly spell NetBSD (#7738) authored by @iamleot
• docs: Fix a number of minor docs typos (#7799) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Fix /docs/envoy-authorization/ 404 (#7755 authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Remove link to OPA playground share (#7750) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Revise docs index page wording (#7805) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Update warning note in GraphQL API docs (#7737) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Add wildcard CORS for data/versions.json (#7784) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Ensure no hscroll on built-in tables (#7773) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Render versions under /data/versions.json (#7783) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Set mobile and desktop tab sizes (#7774) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Show link to the edge release of the docs (#7776) authored by @charlieegan3

Miscellaneous

• Benchmark fixes (#7765) authored by @anderseknert
• Use Regal for linting Rego (#7752) authored by @anderseknert
• Use shorthand form for types (#7757) authored by @anderseknert
• .github: Use types for issues (#7751) authored by @charlieegan3

• build: Add top-level token permissions for workflows (#7795) authored by @timothyklee

• docs/build: Link checker fixes (#7743) authored by @charlieegan3

• Dependency updates; notably:
• build(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3
• build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.73.0 to 1.74.2
• build(deps): bump go.opentelemetry.io deps from 1.36.0/0.61.0 to 1.37.0/0.62.0