chore: Enable kube/ring feature (#988)

* chore: add ring feature of kube crate

* chore: Add changelog entry

* chore: Slightly reword changelog entry

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Co-authored-by: Techassi <[email protected]>

Author: xeniape

Cargo.lock

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ itertools = "0.14.0"
 json-patch = "4.0.0"
 k8s-openapi = { version = "0.24.0", default-features = false, features = ["schemars", "v1_32"] }
 # We use rustls instead of openssl for easier portability, e.g. so that we can build stackablectl without the need to vendor (build from source) openssl
-kube = { version = "0.99.0", default-features = false, features = ["client", "jsonpatch", "runtime", "derive", "rustls-tls"] }
+kube = { version = "0.99.0", default-features = false, features = ["client", "jsonpatch", "runtime", "derive", "rustls-tls", "ring"] }
 opentelemetry = "0.23.0"
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.23.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = "0.4.0"

Cargo.toml

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Enable the `kube/ring` feature to use ring as the crypto provider for `rustls`. This will
+  otherwise cause runtime errors which result in panics ([#988]).
+
+[#988]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/988
+
 ## [0.87.4] - 2025-03-17
 
 ## [0.87.3] - 2025-03-14