Crossplane v1.20.11

v1.20.11 is a patch release scoped to fixing issues reported by users of Crossplane v1.20 and fixing security related issues in Crossplane's dependencies.

🎉 Highlights

• Fixed repeated owner updates for composed Usages (#7623, originally #7591): The Usage controller only checked the first ownerReference when deciding whether the spec.by resource already owned the Usage. A Usage created by a Composition already has the composite as its first owner, so spec.by ended up as a later owner and the controller issued an unnecessary update on every reconciliation — repeatedly re-triggering composition reconciliation and eventually opening the XR circuit breaker. It now checks all owner references.
• Dependency security updates: Bumps the Go toolchain to 1.25.12 (#7578), grpc / golang.org/x/net / golang.org/x/text (#7621), github.com/sigstore/rekor (#7553), and the alpine base image to v3.24 (#7513) to pick up upstream CVE fixes. See ## What's Changed for the full list.

What's Changed

• chore(deps): update module github.com/sigstore/rekor to v1.5.2 [security] (release-1.20) by @crossplane-renovate[bot] in https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/pull/7553
• build(deps): bump Go to 1.25.12 [security] [release-1.20] by @phisco in https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/pull/7578
• chore(deps): update alpine docker tag to v3.24 (release-1.20) by @crossplane-renovate[bot] in https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/pull/7513
• fix(deps): combined security bumps (grpc, x/net, x/text) (release-1.20) by @lsviben in https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/pull/7621
• [Backport release-1.20] fix: avoid repeated owner updates for composed Usages by @phisco in https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/pull/7623

Full Changelog: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/compare/v1.20.10...v1.20.11