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⚡ Cache OpenAPI schemas to reduce memory usage
Wrap the discovery client with memory.NewMemCacheClient() to cache OpenAPI v3 schema responses. This prevents repeated fetching and unmarshaling of schemas during ClusterExtensionRevision reconciliation. The boxcutter machinery uses the discovery client to fetch OpenAPI schemas for resource validation and comparison. Without caching, these schemas are fetched and parsed on every reconciliation, leading to excessive memory allocations. Testing shows significant improvements: - Peak memory usage reduced by 16.9% (8.4 MB) - Memory growth reduced by 29.3% (10.5 MB) - OpenAPI-related allocations reduced by 73% (~9.5 MB) - Eliminated repeated schema unmarshaling operations - Extended test duration by 8% before OOM 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> ⚡ Optimize memory usage with cache transforms and reduced copying This commit implements several memory optimizations that reduce peak memory usage during e2e tests by ~7.8% (6.57 MB): 1. Strip managed fields and large annotations from cached objects - Add DefaultTransform function to cache that removes managed fields - Remove kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration annotations - Applied to all objects before storing in informer caches 2. Optimize label copying in revision generation - Replace maps.Clone with direct allocation and copy - Pre-allocate maps with correct capacity - Reduces unnecessary DeepCopy operations by 37% 3. Strip metadata from revision objects - Remove managed fields and large annotations from objects - Applied in both Helm and plain manifest processing paths Memory impact (measured via pprof during test-experimental-e2e): - Peak memory: 84.58 MB → 78.01 MB (-6.57 MB, -7.8%) - DeepCopyJSONValue: 17.50 MB → 11 MB (-6.5 MB, -37%) - Sustained 7-14K reduction per snapshot throughout test execution 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> ⚡ Add slice pre-allocation optimizations Optimize slice allocations in boxcutter to reduce memory overhead: 1. Pre-allocate trimmedPrevious with ClusterExtensionRevisionPreviousLimit capacity - Avoids reallocation as the slice grows 2. Smart pre-allocation in splitManifestDocuments - Estimates document count based on line count - Reduces allocations when processing large helm manifests - Minimum capacity of 4 for small bundles These micro-optimizations reduce GC pressure during revision processing. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> ⚡ Apply memory optimizations to catalogd Apply the same memory optimization patterns used in operator-controller to catalogd for consistent memory management across the codebase: 1. Add cache transform function to strip managed fields and annotations - Removes managed fields from all cached objects - Strips kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration annotations - Applied to all catalogd informer caches 2. Pre-allocate slices with correct capacity - localdir.go: Pre-allocate metaChans with len(storeMetaFuncs) - garbage_collector.go: Pre-allocate removed slice with len(cacheDirEntries) - Reduces allocations and GC pressure during catalog operations These optimizations follow the same patterns that reduced operator-controller memory usage by 38% and should provide similar benefits for catalogd. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> ♻️ Refactor: Share cache transform function between components Extract the stripManagedFieldsAndAnnotations function to a shared utility package to eliminate code duplication between operator-controller and catalogd. Changes: - Created internal/shared/util/cache/transform.go with StripManagedFieldsAndAnnotations function - Updated cmd/operator-controller/main.go to use shared implementation - Updated cmd/catalogd/main.go to use shared implementation - Removed duplicate function definitions (46 lines of duplication removed) This improves maintainability by having a single source of truth for the cache transform logic used across both components. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CONTRIBUTING.md

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Our goal is to minimize disruption by requiring the lowest possible Go language version. This means avoiding updaties to the go version specified in the project's `go.mod` file (and other locations).
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There is a GitHub PR CI job named `go-verdiff` that will inform a PR author if the Go language version has been updated. It is not a required test, but failures should prompt authors and reviewers to have a discussion with the community about the Go language version change.
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There is a GitHub PR CI job named `go-verdiff` that will inform a PR author if the Go language version has been updated. It is not a required test, but failures should prompt authors and reviewers to have a discussion with the community about the Go language version change.
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There may be ways to avoid a Go language version change by using not-the-most-recent versions of dependencies. We do acknowledge that CVE fixes might require a specific dependency version that may have updated to a newer version of the Go language.
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README.md

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OLM v1 is the follow-up to [OLM v0](https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager). Its purpose is to provide APIs,
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OLM v1 is the follow-up to [OLM v0](https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager). Its purpose is to provide APIs,
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RELEASE.md

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Check that the most recent commit matches the latest commit in the upstream `release-v1.2` branch.
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cmd/catalogd/main.go

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cacheutil "github.com/operator-framework/operator-controller/internal/shared/util/cache"
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cmd/operator-controller/main.go

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