backport: part 4

[ronething]

Type of change:

• Bugfix
• New feature provided
• Improve performance
• Backport patches
• Documentation
• Refactor
• Chore
• CI/CD or Tests

What this PR does / why we need it:

610f7ae6 - Ashish Tiwari, 2 weeks ago : fix: hmac-auth plugin spec compatibility with latest apisix (#2528)
ce844bdc - AlinsRan, 2 weeks ago : fix: deadlock occurs when updating configuration fails (#2531)
2acb4545 - Ashish Tiwari, 2 weeks ago : chore: migrate redirect plugin e2e tests (#2529)
1f7dace3 - Ashish Tiwari, 2 weeks ago : chore: migrate e2e tests for httproute basic (#2525)
d3bc94d0 - AlinsRan, 2 weeks ago : fix(test): Unstable controllername assertion (#2523)
36074594 - Ashish Tiwari, 2 weeks ago : chore: migrate retries/timeout tests for apisixupstream (#2517)
ed566586 - Ashish Tiwari, 3 weeks ago : fix: support tlsSecret from http.backends in ApisixRoute (#2518)

Among them, the schema patch of hmacAuth requires us to modify config/crd-nocel/apisix.apache.org_v2.yaml separately

Pre-submission checklist:

• Did you explain what problem does this PR solve? Or what new features have been added?
• Have you added corresponding test cases?
• Have you modified the corresponding document?
• Is this PR backward compatible? If it is not backward compatible, please discuss on the mailing list first

[github-actions]

conformance test report - apisix-standalone mode

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
date: "2025-09-11T16:08:41Z"
gatewayAPIChannel: standard
gatewayAPIVersion: v1.2.0
implementation:
  contact: null
  organization: APISIX
  project: apisix-ingress-controller
  url: https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller.git
  version: v2.0.0
kind: ConformanceReport
mode: default
profiles:
- core:
    failedTests:
    - HTTPRouteInvalidBackendRefUnknownKind
    result: failure
    skippedTests:
    - HTTPRouteHTTPSListener
    statistics:
      Failed: 1
      Passed: 31
      Skipped: 1
  name: GATEWAY-HTTP
  summary: Core tests failed with 1 test failures.

[github-actions]

conformance test report - apisix mode

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
date: "2025-09-11T16:09:07Z"
gatewayAPIChannel: standard
gatewayAPIVersion: v1.2.0
implementation:
  contact: null
  organization: APISIX
  project: apisix-ingress-controller
  url: https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller.git
  version: v2.0.0
kind: ConformanceReport
mode: default
profiles:
- core:
    failedTests:
    - HTTPRouteInvalidBackendRefUnknownKind
    result: failure
    skippedTests:
    - HTTPRouteHTTPSListener
    statistics:
      Failed: 1
      Passed: 31
      Skipped: 1
  name: GATEWAY-HTTP
  summary: Core tests failed with 1 test failures.

[github-actions]

conformance test report

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
date: "2025-09-11T16:12:04Z"
gatewayAPIChannel: standard
gatewayAPIVersion: v1.2.0
implementation:
  contact: null
  organization: APISIX
  project: apisix-ingress-controller
  url: https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller.git
  version: v2.0.0
kind: ConformanceReport
mode: default
profiles:
- core:
    result: partial
    skippedTests:
    - HTTPRouteHTTPSListener
    statistics:
      Failed: 0
      Passed: 32
      Skipped: 1
  name: GATEWAY-HTTP
  summary: Core tests partially succeeded with 1 test skips.