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Bug Fixes

• allow mutation-webhook only operation without constraint client … (#4453) #4453 (Alan Diaz)
• migrate OCI pulls to oras-go v2 CP(4489) (#4494) #4494 (Jaydip Gabani)
• retry VAP API discovery on transient failures CP(#4455) (#4485) #4485 (Jaydip Gabani)
• share StatsReporter across mutator controllers CP (#4465) (#4487) #4487 (Jaydip Gabani)
• restore mutator conflict propagation via events channel (CP #4478) (#4496) #4496 (Jaydip Gabani)
• clean up stale VAPB when vap.k8s.io removed from constraint (CP #4446) (#4507) #4507 (Jaydip Gabani)

Chores

• bumping on sha that pins deps to full commit (cherry-pick to release-3.22) (#4486) #4486 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.78.0 to 1.79.3 (#4488) #4488 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump kubectl from v1.35.2 to v1.35.3 (CP #4458) (#4497) #4497 (Jaydip Gabani)
• bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp from 1.40.0 to 1.43.0 (CP #4499) (#4516) #4516 (abhisheksheth28)
• Prepare v3.22.1 release (#4517) #4517 (github-actions[bot])