backport: part 5

[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:

f607e9c7 - AlinsRan, 7 days ago : fix: responseHeaderModifier fails to synchronize (#2544)
0bcf983a - Ashing Zheng, 8 days ago : fix: handle httproute multi backend refs (#2540)
3df52c49 - AlinsRan, 9 days ago : fix: sync exception caused by ingress endpoint 0 (#2538)
36137954 - AlinsRan, 10 days ago : feat: support retry in case of sync failure (#2534)

feat: support retry in case of sync failure (#2534): api7ee provider is not implemented yet.

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

[ronething]

feat: support retry in case of sync failure (#2534): api7ee provider is not implemented yet.

[github-actions]

conformance test report - apisix-standalone mode

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
date: "2025-09-12T04:12:24Z"
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.

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conformance test report - apisix mode

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
date: "2025-09-12T04:12:55Z"
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.

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conformance test report

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
date: "2025-09-12T04:16:32Z"
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.