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CHANGELOG/RELEASE-NOTES.md

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 If this functionality is critical to your use case, please raise an issue on Github and describe why it is important to you.
 
+## v1.12.0
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+It is now possible to disable Reaper front end authentication by adding either `spec.reaper.uiUserSecretRef: {}` or `spec.reaper.uiUserSecretRef: ""`. 
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+This brings this API into line with our standard convention; which is that an absent/nil field will use the default behaviour of the operator (which is secure by default; i.e. with auth turned on) but that explicitly setting a zero value allows you to turn features off.
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+However, users with existing deployments which use auth should note that this new capability will result in their authentication being turned off, if - for some reason - they have set `spec.reaper.uiUserSecretRef` to the empty value. If you are in this situatin and want to keep auth turned on, you can simply remove the field `spec.reaper.uiUserSecretRef` entirely which will leave you with the default behaviour (auth enabled).
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 ## v1.6.0
 
 ### Removal of the CassandraBackup and CassandraRestore APIs