Bump pyments version to 2.18 (latest)

Update pygments to 2.15.1
Signed-off-by: todaywasawesome <dan@codefresh.io>
2026-02-23 02:58:46 +01:00 · 2024-09-04 09:19:58 -06:00 · 2024-09-04 08:53:03 -06:00
1218 changed files with 34626 additions and 179653 deletions
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ updates:
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "daily"
-    ignore:
-      # We use consistent go and node versions across a lot of different files, and updating via dependabot would cause
-      # drift among those files, instead we let renovate bot handle them.
-      - dependency-name: "library/golang"
-      - dependency-name: "library/node"

  - package-ecosystem: "docker"
    directory: "/test/container/"
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-build.yaml
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ on:

 env:
  # Golang version to use across CI steps
-  # renovate: datasource=golang-version packageName=golang
-  GOLANG_VERSION: '1.24.6'
+  GOLANG_VERSION: '1.22'

 concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
      docs: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.docs_any_changed }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
-      - uses: tj-actions/changed-files@bab30c2299617f6615ec02a68b9a40d10bd21366 # v45.0.5
+      - uses: tj-actions/changed-files@c65cd883420fd2eb864698a825fc4162dd94482c # v44.5.7
        id: filter
        with:
          # Any file which is not under docs/, ui/ or is not a markdown file is counted as a backend file
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: Download all Go modules
@@ -78,11 +77,11 @@ jobs:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: Restore go build cache
-        uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
+        uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/go-build
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-go-build-v1-${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -105,14 +104,13 @@ jobs:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: Run golangci-lint
-        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@4afd733a84b1f43292c63897423277bb7f4313a9 # v8.0.0
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@aaa42aa0628b4ae2578232a66b541047968fac86 # v6.1.0
        with:
-          # renovate: datasource=go packageName=github.com/golangci/golangci-lint versioning=regex:^v(?<major>\d+)\.(?<minor>\d+)\.(?<patch>\d+)?$
-          version: v2.1.6
+          version: v1.58.2
          args: --verbose

  test-go:
@@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Create symlink in GOPATH
        run: ln -s $(pwd) ~/go/src/github.com/argoproj/argo-cd
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: Install required packages
@@ -153,7 +151,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          echo "/usr/local/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
      - name: Restore go build cache
-        uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
+        uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/go-build
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-go-build-v1-${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -174,7 +172,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Run all unit tests
        run: make test-local
      - name: Generate test results artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
        with:
          name: test-results
          path: test-results
@@ -197,7 +195,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Create symlink in GOPATH
        run: ln -s $(pwd) ~/go/src/github.com/argoproj/argo-cd
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: Install required packages
@@ -217,7 +215,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          echo "/usr/local/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
      - name: Restore go build cache
-        uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
+        uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/go-build
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-go-build-v1-${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -238,7 +236,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Run all unit tests
        run: make test-race-local
      - name: Generate test results artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
        with:
          name: race-results
          path: test-results/
@@ -253,7 +251,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: Create symlink in GOPATH
@@ -305,13 +303,12 @@ jobs:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
      - name: Setup NodeJS
-        uses: actions/setup-node@39370e3970a6d050c480ffad4ff0ed4d3fdee5af # v4.1.0
+        uses: actions/setup-node@1e60f620b9541d16bece96c5465dc8ee9832be0b # v4.0.3
        with:
-          # renovate: datasource=node-version packageName=node versioning=node
-          node-version: '22.9.0'
+          node-version: '21.6.1'
      - name: Restore node dependency cache
        id: cache-dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
+        uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
        with:
          path: ui/node_modules
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-dep-v2-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}
@@ -351,7 +348,7 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Restore node dependency cache
        id: cache-dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
+        uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
        with:
          path: ui/node_modules
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-dep-v2-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}
@@ -370,13 +367,13 @@ jobs:
          path: test-results
      - name: combine-go-coverage
        # We generate coverage reports for all Argo CD components, but only the applicationset-controller,
-        # app-controller, repo-server, and commit-server report contain coverage data. The other components currently
-        # don't shut down gracefully, so no coverage data is produced. Once those components are fixed, we can add
-        # references to their coverage output directories.
+        # app-controller, and repo-server report contain coverage data. The other components currently don't shut down
+        # gracefully, so no coverage data is produced. Once those components are fixed, we can add references to their
+        # coverage output directories.
        run: |
-          go tool covdata percent -i=test-results,e2e-code-coverage/applicationset-controller,e2e-code-coverage/repo-server,e2e-code-coverage/app-controller,e2e-code-coverage/commit-server -o test-results/full-coverage.out
+          go tool covdata percent -i=test-results,e2e-code-coverage/applicationset-controller,e2e-code-coverage/repo-server,e2e-code-coverage/app-controller -o test-results/full-coverage.out
      - name: Upload code coverage information to codecov.io
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@b9fd7d16f6d7d1b5d2bec1a2887e65ceed900238 # v4.6.0
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@e28ff129e5465c2c0dcc6f003fc735cb6ae0c673 # v4.5.0
        with:
          file: test-results/full-coverage.out
          fail_ci_if_error: true
@@ -384,7 +381,7 @@ jobs:
          CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
      - name: Upload test results to Codecov
        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' && github.event_name == 'push' && github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'
-        uses: codecov/test-results-action@9739113ad922ea0a9abb4b2c0f8bf6a4aa8ef820 # v1.0.1
+        uses: codecov/test-results-action@1b5b448b98e58ba90d1a1a1d9fcb72ca2263be46 # v1.0.0
        with:
          file: test-results/junit.xml
          fail_ci_if_error: true
@@ -393,7 +390,7 @@ jobs:
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONAR_TOKEN }}
-        uses: SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action@bfd4e558cda28cda6b5defafb9232d191be8c203 # v4.2.1
+        uses: SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action@aecaf43ae57e412bd97d70ef9ce6076e672fe0a9 # v2.2
        if: env.sonar_secret != ''
  test-e2e:
    name: Run end-to-end tests
@@ -403,14 +400,14 @@ jobs:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        k3s:
-          - version: v1.31.0
+          - version: v1.30.2
            # We designate the latest version because we only collect code coverage for that version.
            latest: true
-          - version: v1.30.4
+          - version: v1.29.6
            latest: false
-          - version: v1.29.8
+          - version: v1.28.11
            latest: false
-          - version: v1.28.13
+          - version: v1.27.15
            latest: false
    needs:
      - build-go
@@ -429,17 +426,10 @@ jobs:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.E2E_TEST_GITHUB_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      GITLAB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.E2E_TEST_GITLAB_TOKEN }}
    steps:
-      - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
-        uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@54081f138730dfa15788a46383842cd2f914a1be
-        with:
-          large-packages: false
-          docker-images: false
-          swap-storage: false
-          tool-cache: false
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
      - name: GH actions workaround - Kill XSP4 process
@@ -458,7 +448,7 @@ jobs:
          sudo chmod go-r $HOME/.kube/config
          kubectl version
      - name: Restore go build cache
-        uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
+        uses: actions/cache@0c45773b623bea8c8e75f6c82b208c3cf94ea4f9 # v4.0.2
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/go-build
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-go-build-v1-${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -516,13 +506,13 @@ jobs:
          goreman run stop-all || echo "goreman trouble"
          sleep 30
      - name: Upload e2e coverage report
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
        with:
          name: e2e-code-coverage
          path: /tmp/coverage
        if: ${{ matrix.k3s.latest }}
      - name: Upload e2e-server logs
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
        with:
          name: e2e-server-k8s${{ matrix.k3s.version }}.log
          path: /tmp/e2e-server.log
@@ -549,4 +539,4 @@ jobs:
            exit 0
          else
            exit 1
-          fi
+          fi
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
      actions: read  # for github/codeql-action/init to get workflow details
      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
      security-events: write  # for github/codeql-action/autobuild to send a status report
-    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd' || vars.enable_codeql
+    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'

    # CodeQL runs on ubuntu-latest and windows-latest
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:

    # Use correct go version. https://github.com/github/codeql-action/issues/1842#issuecomment-1704398087
    - name: Setup Golang
-      uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+      uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
      with:
        go-version-file: go.mod
      
--- a/.github/workflows/image-reuse.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/image-reuse.yaml
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ on:
      platforms:
        required: true
        type: string
+        default: linux/amd64
      push:
        required: true
        type: boolean
+        default: false
      target:
        required: false
        type: string
@@ -67,15 +69,15 @@ jobs:
        if: ${{ github.ref_type != 'tag'}}

      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ inputs.go-version }}

      - name: Install cosign
-        uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@dc72c7d5c4d10cd6bcb8cf6e3fd625a9e5e537da # v3.7.0
+        uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@4959ce089c160fddf62f7b42464195ba1a56d382 # v3.6.0

      - uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@49b3bc8e6bdd4a60e6116a5414239cba5943d3cf # v3.2.0
-      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@c47758b77c9736f4b2ef4073d4d51994fabfe349 # v3.7.1
+      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@988b5a0280414f521da01fcc63a27aeeb4b104db # v3.6.1

      - name: Setup tags for container image as a CSV type
        run: |
@@ -141,7 +143,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Build and push container image
        id: image
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@48aba3b46d1b1fec4febb7c5d0c644b249a11355 #v6.10.0
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@5cd11c3a4ced054e52742c5fd54dca954e0edd85 #v6.7.0
        with:
          context: .
          platforms: ${{ inputs.platforms }}
--- a/.github/workflows/image.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/image.yaml
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/image-reuse.yaml
    with:
      # Note: cannot use env variables to set go-version (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/reusing-workflows#limitations)
-      # renovate: datasource=golang-version packageName=golang
-      go-version: 1.24.6
+      go-version: 1.22
      platforms: ${{ needs.set-vars.outputs.platforms }}
      push: false

@@ -69,8 +68,7 @@ jobs:
      quay_image_name: quay.io/argoproj/argocd:latest
      ghcr_image_name: ghcr.io/argoproj/argo-cd/argocd:${{ needs.set-vars.outputs.image-tag }}
      # Note: cannot use env variables to set go-version (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/reusing-workflows#limitations)
-      # renovate: datasource=golang-version packageName=golang
-      go-version: 1.24.6
+      go-version: 1.22
      platforms: ${{ needs.set-vars.outputs.platforms }}
      push: true
    secrets:
--- a/.github/workflows/init-release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/init-release.yaml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
          git stash pop

      - name: Create pull request
-        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@5e914681df9dc83aa4e4905692ca88beb2f9e91f  # v7.0.5
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@4320041ed380b20e97d388d56a7fb4f9b8c20e79  # v7.0.0
        with:
          commit-message: "Bump version to ${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }}"
          title: "Bump version to ${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }} on ${{ inputs.TARGET_BRANCH }} branch"
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-title-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-title-check.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
    name: Validate PR Title
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: thehanimo/pr-title-checker@7fbfe05602bdd86f926d3fb3bccb6f3aed43bc70 # v1.4.3
+      - uses: thehanimo/pr-title-checker@1d8cd483a2b73118406a187f54dca8a9415f1375 # v1.4.2
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          configuration_path: ".github/pr-title-checker-config.json"
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ on:
 permissions: {}

 env:
-  # renovate: datasource=golang-version packageName=golang
-  GOLANG_VERSION: '1.24.6' # Note: go-version must also be set in job argocd-image.with.go-version
+  GOLANG_VERSION: '1.22' # Note: go-version must also be set in job argocd-image.with.go-version

 jobs:
  argocd-image:
@@ -24,50 +23,13 @@ jobs:
    with:
      quay_image_name: quay.io/argoproj/argocd:${{ github.ref_name }}
      # Note: cannot use env variables to set go-version (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/reusing-workflows#limitations)
-      # renovate: datasource=golang-version packageName=golang
-      go-version: 1.24.6
+      go-version: 1.22
      platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/s390x,linux/ppc64le
      push: true
    secrets:
      quay_username: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_QUAY_USERNAME }}
      quay_password: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_QUAY_TOKEN }}

-  setup-variables:
-    name: Setup Release Variables
-    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    outputs:
-      is_pre_release: ${{ steps.var.outputs.is_pre_release }}
-      is_latest_release: ${{ steps.var.outputs.is_latest_release }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Setup variables
-        id: var
-        run: |
-          set -xue
-          # Fetch all tag information
-          git fetch --prune --tags --force
-
-          LATEST_RELEASE_TAG=$(git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-rc' tag --list --sort=version:refname | grep -v '-' | tail -n1)
-
-          PRE_RELEASE=false
-          # Check if latest tag is a pre-release
-          if echo ${{ github.ref_name }} | grep -E -- '-rc[0-9]+$';then
-            PRE_RELEASE=true
-          fi
-
-          IS_LATEST=false
-          # Ensure latest release tag matches github.ref_name
-          if [[ $LATEST_RELEASE_TAG == ${{ github.ref_name }} ]];then
-            IS_LATEST=true
-          fi
-          echo "is_pre_release=$PRE_RELEASE" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "is_latest_release=$IS_LATEST" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
  argocd-image-provenance:
      needs: [argocd-image]
      permissions:
@@ -86,17 +48,15 @@ jobs:

  goreleaser:
    needs:
-      - setup-variables
      - argocd-image
      - argocd-image-provenance
    permissions:
      contents: write # used for uploading assets
    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    env:
-      GORELEASER_MAKE_LATEST: ${{ needs.setup-variables.outputs.is_latest_release }}
    outputs:
      hashes: ${{ steps.hash.outputs.hashes }}
+
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
@@ -107,15 +67,19 @@ jobs:
      - name: Fetch all tags
        run: git fetch --force --tags

-      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
-        with:
-          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}
-
-      - name: Set GORELEASER_PREVIOUS_TAG # Workaround, GoReleaser uses 'git-describe' to determine a previous tag. Our tags are created in release branches.
+      - name: Set GORELEASER_PREVIOUS_TAG # Workaround, GoReleaser uses 'git-describe' to determine a previous tag. Our tags are created in realease branches.
        run: |
          set -xue
-          echo "GORELEASER_PREVIOUS_TAG=$(go run hack/get-previous-release/get-previous-version-for-release-notes.go ${{ github.ref_name }})" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          if echo ${{ github.ref_name }} | grep -E -- '-rc1+$';then
+            echo "GORELEASER_PREVIOUS_TAG=$(git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-rc' tag --list --sort=version:refname | tail -n 2 | head -n 1)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          else
+            echo "This is not the first release on the branch, Using GoReleaser defaults"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Setup Golang
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}

      - name: Set environment variables for ldflags
        id: set_ldflag
@@ -132,14 +96,14 @@ jobs:
          tool-cache: false

      - name: Run GoReleaser
-        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@9ed2f89a662bf1735a48bc8557fd212fa902bebf # v6.1.0
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@286f3b13b1b49da4ac219696163fb8c1c93e1200 # v6.0.0
        id: run-goreleaser
        with:
          version: latest
          args: release --clean --timeout 55m
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          KUBECTL_VERSION: ${{ env.KUBECTL_VERSION }}
+          KUBECTL_VERSION: ${{ env.KUBECTL_VERSION }} 
          GIT_TREE_STATE: ${{ env.GIT_TREE_STATE }}

      - name: Generate subject for provenance
@@ -178,7 +142,7 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      contents: write # Needed for release uploads
    outputs:
-      hashes: ${{ steps.sbom-hash.outputs.hashes }}
+      hashes: ${{ steps.sbom-hash.outputs.hashes}}
    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
@@ -189,7 +153,7 @@ jobs:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Setup Golang
-        uses: actions/setup-go@3041bf56c941b39c61721a86cd11f3bb1338122a # v5.2.0
+        uses: actions/setup-go@0a12ed9d6a96ab950c8f026ed9f722fe0da7ef32 # v5.0.2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GOLANG_VERSION }}

@@ -222,7 +186,7 @@ jobs:
          fi

          cd /tmp && tar -zcf sbom.tar.gz *.spdx
-
+          
      - name: Generate SBOM hash
        shell: bash
        id: sbom-hash
@@ -231,15 +195,15 @@ jobs:
          # base64 -w0 encodes to base64 and outputs on a single line.
          # sha256sum /tmp/sbom.tar.gz ... | base64 -w0
          echo "hashes=$(sha256sum /tmp/sbom.tar.gz | base64 -w0)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
+      
      - name: Upload SBOM
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@c95fe1489396fe8a9eb87c0abf8aa5b2ef267fda # v2.2.1
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@c062e08bd532815e2082a85e87e3ef29c3e6d191 # v2.0.8
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          files: |
            /tmp/sbom.tar.gz
-
+  
  sbom-provenance:
    needs: [generate-sbom]
    permissions:
@@ -247,16 +211,15 @@ jobs:
      id-token: write # Needed for provenance signing and ID
      contents: write #  Needed for release uploads
    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'
-    # Must be referenced by a tag. https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator/blob/main/internal/builders/container/README.md#referencing-the-slsa-generator
+    # Must be refernced by a tag. https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator/blob/main/internal/builders/container/README.md#referencing-the-slsa-generator
    uses: slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator/.github/workflows/generator_generic_slsa3.yml@v2.0.0
    with:
      base64-subjects: "${{ needs.generate-sbom.outputs.hashes }}"
      provenance-name: "argocd-sbom.intoto.jsonl"
      upload-assets: true
-
+      
  post-release:
    needs:
-      - setup-variables
      - argocd-image
      - goreleaser
      - generate-sbom
@@ -265,8 +228,6 @@ jobs:
      pull-requests: write # Needed to create PR for VERSION update.
    if: github.repository == 'argoproj/argo-cd'
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    env:
-      TAG_STABLE: ${{ needs.setup-variables.outputs.is_latest_release }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694 # v4.0.0
@@ -280,6 +241,27 @@ jobs:
          git config --global user.email 'ci@argoproj.com'
          git config --global user.name 'CI'

+      - name: Check if tag is the latest version and not a pre-release
+        run: |
+          set -xue
+          # Fetch all tag information
+          git fetch --prune --tags --force
+
+          LATEST_TAG=$(git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-rc' tag --list --sort=version:refname | tail -n1)
+
+          PRE_RELEASE=false
+          # Check if latest tag is a pre-release
+          if echo $LATEST_TAG | grep -E -- '-rc[0-9]+$';then
+            PRE_RELEASE=true
+          fi
+
+          # Ensure latest tag matches github.ref_name & not a pre-release
+          if [[ $LATEST_TAG == ${{ github.ref_name }} ]] && [[ $PRE_RELEASE != 'true' ]];then
+            echo "TAG_STABLE=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          else
+            echo "TAG_STABLE=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          fi
+
      - name: Update stable tag to latest version
        run: |
          git tag -f stable ${{ github.ref_name }}
@@ -313,7 +295,7 @@ jobs:
        if: ${{ env.UPDATE_VERSION == 'true' }}

      - name: Create PR to update VERSION on master branch
-        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@5e914681df9dc83aa4e4905692ca88beb2f9e91f # v7.0.5
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@4320041ed380b20e97d388d56a7fb4f9b8c20e79 # v7.0.0
        with:
          commit-message: Bump version in master
          title: "chore: Bump version in master"
--- a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yaml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
      # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable uploads of run results in SARIF
      # format to the repository Actions tab.
      - name: "Upload artifact"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@b4b15b8c7c6ac21ea08fcf65892d2ee8f75cf882 # v4.4.3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
        with:
          name: SARIF file
          path: results.sarif
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 .vscode/
 .idea/
 .DS_Store
-.run/
 vendor/
 dist/*
 ui/dist/app/*
--- a/.gitpod.Dockerfile
+++ b/.gitpod.Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM gitpod/workspace-full@sha256:230285e0b949e6d728d384b2029a4111db7b9c87c182f22f32a0be9e36b225df
+FROM gitpod/workspace-full@sha256:fbff2dce4236535b96de0e94622bbe9a44fba954ca064862004c34e3e08904df

 USER root

--- a/.golangci.yaml
+++ b/.golangci.yaml
@@ -1,101 +1,45 @@
-version: "2"
-run:
-  timeout: 50m
+issues:
+  exclude:
+    - SA5011
+  max-issues-per-linter: 0
+  max-same-issues: 0
+  exclude-rules:
+    - path: '(.+)_test\.go'
+      linters:
+        - unparam
 linters:
-  default: none
  enable:
    - errcheck
    - errorlint
    - gocritic
+    - gofumpt
+    - goimports
+    - gosimple
    - govet
    - ineffassign
    - misspell
-    - perfsprint
    - staticcheck
    - testifylint
-    - thelper
    - unparam
    - unused
-    - usestdlibvars
-    - whitespace
-  settings:
-    gocritic:
-      disabled-checks:
-        - appendAssign
-        - assignOp
-        - badCond
-        - commentFormatting
-        - exitAfterDefer
-        - ifElseChain
-        - mapKey
-        - singleCaseSwitch
-        - typeSwitchVar
-    perfsprint:
-      int-conversion: true
-      err-error: false
-      errorf: false
-      sprintf1: true
-      strconcat: false
-    staticcheck:
-      checks:
-        - "all"
-        - "-ST1001" # dot imports are discouraged
-        - "-ST1003" # poorly chosen identifier
-        - "-ST1005" # incorrectly formatted error string
-        - "-ST1011" # poorly chosen name for variable of type time.Duration
-        - "-ST1012" # poorly chosen name for an error variable
-        - "-ST1016" # use consistent method receiver names
-        - "-ST1017" # don't use Yoda conditions
-        - "-ST1019" # importing the same package multiple times
-        - "-ST1023" # redundant type in variable declaration
-        - "-QF1001" # apply De Morgan’s law
-        - "-QF1003" # convert if/else-if chain to tagged switch
-        - "-QF1006" # lift if+break into loop condition
-        - "-QF1007" # merge conditional assignment into variable declaration
-        - "-QF1008" # omit embedded fields from selector expression
-        - "-QF1009" # use time.Time.Equal instead of == operator
-        - "-QF1011" # omit redundant type from variable declaration
-        - "-QF1012" # use fmt.Fprintf(x, ...) instead of x.Write(fmt.Sprintf(...))
-    testifylint:
-      enable-all: true
-      disable:
-        - go-require
-        - equal-values
-        - empty
-        - len
-        - expected-actual
-        - formatter
-  exclusions:
-    generated: lax
-    presets:
-      - comments
-      - common-false-positives
-      - legacy
-      - std-error-handling
-    rules:
-      - linters:
-          - unparam
-        path: (.+)_test\.go
-      - path: (.+)\.go$
-        text: SA5011
-    paths:
-      - third_party$
-      - builtin$
-      - examples$
-issues:
-  max-issues-per-linter: 0
-  max-same-issues: 0
-formatters:
-  enable:
-    - gofumpt
-    - goimports
-  settings:
-    goimports:
-      local-prefixes:
-        - github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2
-  exclusions:
-    generated: lax
-    paths:
-      - third_party$
-      - builtin$
-      - examples$
+    - whitespace 
+linters-settings:
+  gocritic:
+    disabled-checks:
+      - appendAssign
+      - assignOp  # Keep it disabled for readability
+      - badCond
+      - commentFormatting
+      - exitAfterDefer
+      - ifElseChain
+      - mapKey
+      - singleCaseSwitch
+      - typeSwitchVar
+  goimports:
+    local-prefixes: github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2
+  testifylint:
+    enable-all: true
+    disable:
+      - go-require
+run:
+  timeout: 50m
--- a/.goreleaser.yaml
+++ b/.goreleaser.yaml
@@ -46,17 +46,16 @@ builds:
 archives:
  - id: argocd-archive
    builds:
-      - argocd-cli
+    - argocd-cli
    name_template: |-
      {{ .ProjectName }}-{{ .Os }}-{{ .Arch }}
-    formats: [binary]
+    format: binary

 checksum:
  name_template: 'cli_checksums.txt'
  algorithm: sha256

 release:
-  make_latest: '{{ .Env.GORELEASER_MAKE_LATEST }}'
  prerelease: auto
  draft: false
  header: |
@@ -86,14 +85,16 @@ release:
    If upgrading from a different minor version, be sure to read the [upgrading](https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/upgrading/overview/) documentation.
  footer: |
    **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/compare/{{ .PreviousTag }}...{{ .Tag }}
-
+    
    <a href="https://argoproj.github.io/cd/"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-site/master/content/pages/cd/gitops-cd.png" width="25%" ></a>

+
 snapshot: #### To be removed for PR
-  name_template: '2.6.0'
+  name_template: "2.6.0"

 changelog:
-  use: github
+  use:
+    github
  sort: asc
  abbrev: 0
  groups: # Regex use RE2 syntax as defined here: https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax.
@@ -116,4 +117,7 @@ changelog:
      - '^test:'
      - '^.*?Bump(\([[:word:]]+\))?.+$'
      - '^.*?\[Bot\](\([[:word:]]+\))?.+$'
+
+
 # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://goreleaser.com/static/schema.json
+
--- a/.mockery.yaml
+++ b/.mockery.yaml
@@ -26,13 +26,6 @@ packages:
  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/utils:
    interfaces:
      Renderer:
-  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/commitserver/commit:
-    interfaces:
-      RepoClientFactory:
-  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/commitserver/apiclient:
-    interfaces:
-      CommitServiceClient:
-      Clientset:
  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/controller/cache:
    interfaces:
      LiveStateCache:
@@ -50,7 +43,6 @@ packages:
      ProjectGetter:
      RbacEnforcer:
      SettingsGetter:
-      UserGetter:
  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/db:
    interfaces:
      ArgoDB:
@@ -73,7 +65,4 @@ packages:
      SessionServiceClient:
  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apiclient/cluster:
    interfaces:
-      ClusterServiceServer:
-  github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/client/clientset/versioned/typed/application/v1alpha1:
-    interfaces:
-      AppProjectInterface:
+      ClusterServiceServer:
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ version: 2
 formats: all
 mkdocs:
  fail_on_warning: false
-  configuration: mkdocs.yml
 python:
  install:
    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
 build:
  os: "ubuntu-22.04"
  tools:
-    python: "3.12"
+    python: "3.7"
--- a/9
+++ b/9
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG BASE_IMAGE=docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04@sha256:3f85b7caad41a95462cf5b787d8
 # Initial stage which pulls prepares build dependencies and CLI tooling we need for our final image
 # Also used as the image in CI jobs so needs all dependencies
 ####################################################################################################
-FROM docker.io/library/golang:1.24.6@sha256:2c89c41fb9efc3807029b59af69645867cfe978d2b877d475be0d72f6c6ce6f6 AS builder
+FROM docker.io/library/golang:1.22.6@sha256:2bd56f00ff47baf33e64eae7996b65846c7cb5e0a46e0a882ef179fd89654afa AS builder

 RUN echo 'deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-backports main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/argocd
 ####################################################################################################
 # Argo CD UI stage
 ####################################################################################################
-FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM docker.io/library/node:23.0.0@sha256:e643c0b70dca9704dff42e12b17f5b719dbe4f95e6392fc2dfa0c5f02ea8044d AS argocd-ui
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM docker.io/library/node:22.8.0@sha256:8ec02324cb37718197de92e51677781be9f1345c709f31a1f44440c6036d24a2 AS argocd-ui

 WORKDIR /src
 COPY ["ui/package.json", "ui/yarn.lock", "./"]
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ RUN HOST_ARCH=$TARGETARCH NODE_ENV='production' NODE_ONLINE_ENV='online' NODE_OP
 ####################################################################################################
 # Argo CD Build stage which performs the actual build of Argo CD binaries
 ####################################################################################################
-FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM docker.io/library/golang:1.24.6@sha256:2c89c41fb9efc3807029b59af69645867cfe978d2b877d475be0d72f6c6ce6f6 AS argocd-build
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM docker.io/library/golang:1.22.6@sha256:2bd56f00ff47baf33e64eae7996b65846c7cb5e0a46e0a882ef179fd89654afa AS argocd-build

 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/argoproj/argo-cd

@@ -140,8 +140,7 @@ RUN ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-server && \
    ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-dex && \
    ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-notifications && \
    ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-applicationset-controller && \
-    ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-k8s-auth && \
-    ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-commit-server
+    ln -s /usr/local/bin/argocd /usr/local/bin/argocd-k8s-auth

 USER $ARGOCD_USER_ID
 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/tini", "--"]
--- a/7
+++ b/7
@@ -472,7 +472,6 @@ start-e2e-local: mod-vendor-local dep-ui-local cli-local
 	mkdir -p /tmp/coverage/repo-server
 	mkdir -p /tmp/coverage/applicationset-controller
 	mkdir -p /tmp/coverage/notification
-	mkdir -p /tmp/coverage/commit-server
 	# set paths for locally managed ssh known hosts and tls certs data
 	ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH=/tmp/argo-e2e/app/config/ssh \
 	ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH=/tmp/argo-e2e/app/config/tls \
@@ -487,10 +486,8 @@ start-e2e-local: mod-vendor-local dep-ui-local cli-local
 	BIN_MODE=$(ARGOCD_BIN_MODE) \
 	ARGOCD_APPLICATION_NAMESPACES=argocd-e2e-external,argocd-e2e-external-2 \
 	ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_NAMESPACES=argocd-e2e-external,argocd-e2e-external-2 \
-	ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_TOKENREF_STRICT_MODE=true \
 	ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ALLOWED_SCM_PROVIDERS=http://127.0.0.1:8341,http://127.0.0.1:8342,http://127.0.0.1:8343,http://127.0.0.1:8344 \
 	ARGOCD_E2E_TEST=true \
-	ARGOCD_HYDRATOR_ENABLED=true \
 		goreman -f $(ARGOCD_PROCFILE) start ${ARGOCD_START}
 	ls -lrt /tmp/coverage

@@ -556,7 +553,7 @@ build-docs-local:

 .PHONY: build-docs
 build-docs:
-	$(DOCKER) run ${MKDOCS_RUN_ARGS} --rm -it -v ${CURRENT_DIR}:/docs -w /docs --entrypoint "" ${MKDOCS_DOCKER_IMAGE} sh -c 'pip install mkdocs; pip install $$(mkdocs get-deps); mkdocs build'
+	$(DOCKER) run ${MKDOCS_RUN_ARGS} --rm -it -v ${CURRENT_DIR}:/docs -w /docs --entrypoint "" ${MKDOCS_DOCKER_IMAGE} sh -c 'pip install -r docs/requirements.txt; mkdocs build'

 .PHONY: serve-docs-local
 serve-docs-local:
@@ -564,7 +561,7 @@ serve-docs-local:

 .PHONY: serve-docs
 serve-docs:
-	$(DOCKER) run ${MKDOCS_RUN_ARGS} --rm -it -p 8000:8000 -v ${CURRENT_DIR}:/docs -w /docs --entrypoint "" ${MKDOCS_DOCKER_IMAGE} sh -c 'pip install mkdocs; pip install $$(mkdocs get-deps); mkdocs serve -a $$(ip route get 1 | awk '\''{print $$7}'\''):8000'
+	$(DOCKER) run ${MKDOCS_RUN_ARGS} --rm -it -p 8000:8000 -v ${CURRENT_DIR}:/docs -w /docs --entrypoint "" ${MKDOCS_DOCKER_IMAGE} sh -c 'pip install -r docs/requirements.txt; mkdocs serve -a $$(ip route get 1 | awk '\''{print $$7}'\''):8000'

 # Verify that kubectl can connect to your K8s cluster from Docker
 .PHONY: verify-kube-connect
--- a/7
+++ b/7
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-controller: [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "GOCOVERDIR=${ARGOCD_COVERAGE_DIR:-/tmp/coverage/app-controller} HOSTNAME=testappcontroller-1  FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_FAKE_IN_CLUSTER=true ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/tls} ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/ssh} ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-application-controller $COMMAND --loglevel debug --redis localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379} --repo-server localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT:-8081} --commit-server localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_COMMITSERVER_PORT:-8086} --otlp-address=${ARGOCD_OTLP_ADDRESS} --application-namespaces=${ARGOCD_APPLICATION_NAMESPACES:-''} --server-side-diff-enabled=${ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SERVER_SIDE_DIFF:-'false'} --hydrator-enabled=${ARGOCD_HYDRATOR_ENABLED:='false'}"
-api-server: [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "GOCOVERDIR=${ARGOCD_COVERAGE_DIR:-/tmp/coverage/api-server} FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_FAKE_IN_CLUSTER=true ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/tls} ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/ssh} ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-server $COMMAND --loglevel debug --redis localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379} --disable-auth=${ARGOCD_E2E_DISABLE_AUTH:-'true'} --insecure --dex-server http://localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_DEX_PORT:-5556} --repo-server localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT:-8081} --port ${ARGOCD_E2E_APISERVER_PORT:-8080} --otlp-address=${ARGOCD_OTLP_ADDRESS} --application-namespaces=${ARGOCD_APPLICATION_NAMESPACES:-''} --hydrator-enabled=${ARGOCD_HYDRATOR_ENABLED:='false'}"
+controller: [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "GOCOVERDIR=${ARGOCD_COVERAGE_DIR:-/tmp/coverage/app-controller} HOSTNAME=testappcontroller-1  FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_FAKE_IN_CLUSTER=true ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/tls} ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/ssh} ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-application-controller $COMMAND --loglevel debug --redis localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379} --repo-server localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT:-8081} --otlp-address=${ARGOCD_OTLP_ADDRESS} --application-namespaces=${ARGOCD_APPLICATION_NAMESPACES:-''} --server-side-diff-enabled=${ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SERVER_SIDE_DIFF:-'false'}"
+api-server: [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "GOCOVERDIR=${ARGOCD_COVERAGE_DIR:-/tmp/coverage/api-server} FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_FAKE_IN_CLUSTER=true ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/tls} ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/ssh} ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-server $COMMAND --loglevel debug --redis localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379} --disable-auth=${ARGOCD_E2E_DISABLE_AUTH:-'true'} --insecure --dex-server http://localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_DEX_PORT:-5556} --repo-server localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT:-8081} --port ${ARGOCD_E2E_APISERVER_PORT:-8080} --otlp-address=${ARGOCD_OTLP_ADDRESS} --application-namespaces=${ARGOCD_APPLICATION_NAMESPACES:-''}"
 dex: sh -c "ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-dex go run github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/cmd gendexcfg -o `pwd`/dist/dex.yaml && (test -f dist/dex.yaml || { echo 'Failed to generate dex configuration'; exit 1; }) && docker run --rm -p ${ARGOCD_E2E_DEX_PORT:-5556}:${ARGOCD_E2E_DEX_PORT:-5556} -v `pwd`/dist/dex.yaml:/dex.yaml ghcr.io/dexidp/dex:$(grep "image: ghcr.io/dexidp/dex" manifests/base/dex/argocd-dex-server-deployment.yaml | cut -d':' -f3) dex serve /dex.yaml"
-redis: hack/start-redis-with-password.sh
+redis: bash -c "if [ \"$ARGOCD_REDIS_LOCAL\" = 'true' ]; then redis-server --save '' --appendonly no --port ${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379}; else docker run --rm --name argocd-redis -i -p ${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379}:${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379} docker.io/library/redis:$(grep "image: redis" manifests/base/redis/argocd-redis-deployment.yaml | cut -d':' -f3) --save '' --appendonly no --port ${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379}; fi"
 repo-server: [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "GOCOVERDIR=${ARGOCD_COVERAGE_DIR:-/tmp/coverage/repo-server} FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_FAKE_IN_CLUSTER=true ARGOCD_GNUPGHOME=${ARGOCD_GNUPGHOME:-/tmp/argocd-local/gpg/keys} ARGOCD_PLUGINSOCKFILEPATH=${ARGOCD_PLUGINSOCKFILEPATH:-./test/cmp}  ARGOCD_GPG_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_GPG_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/gpg/source} ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_TLS_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/tls} ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH=${ARGOCD_SSH_DATA_PATH:-/tmp/argocd-local/ssh} ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-repo-server ARGOCD_GPG_ENABLED=${ARGOCD_GPG_ENABLED:-false} $COMMAND --loglevel debug --port ${ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT:-8081} --redis localhost:${ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT:-6379} --otlp-address=${ARGOCD_OTLP_ADDRESS}"
 cmp-server: [ "$ARGOCD_E2E_TEST" = 'true' ] && exit 0 || [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_FAKE_IN_CLUSTER=true ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-cmp-server ARGOCD_PLUGINSOCKFILEPATH=${ARGOCD_PLUGINSOCKFILEPATH:-./test/cmp} $COMMAND --config-dir-path ./test/cmp --loglevel debug --otlp-address=${ARGOCD_OTLP_ADDRESS}"
-commit-server: [ "$BIN_MODE" = 'true' ] && COMMAND=./dist/argocd || COMMAND='go run ./cmd/main.go' && sh -c "GOCOVERDIR=${ARGOCD_COVERAGE_DIR:-/tmp/coverage/commit-server} FORCE_LOG_COLORS=1 ARGOCD_BINARY_NAME=argocd-commit-server $COMMAND --loglevel debug --port ${ARGOCD_E2E_COMMITSERVER_PORT:-8086}"
 ui: sh -c 'cd ui && ${ARGOCD_E2E_YARN_CMD:-yarn} start'
 git-server: test/fixture/testrepos/start-git.sh
 helm-registry: test/fixture/testrepos/start-helm-registry.sh
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/argoproj/argo-cd/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/argoproj/argo-cd)
 [![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/4486/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/4486)
 [![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/badge)](https://scorecard.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/argoproj/argo-cd)
+[![FOSSA Status](https://app.fossa.com/api/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Fargoproj%2Fargo-cd.svg?type=shield)](https://app.fossa.com/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Fargoproj%2Fargo-cd?ref=badge_shield)

 **Social:**
 [![Twitter Follow](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/argoproj?style=social)](https://twitter.com/argoproj)
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ Participation in the Argo CD project is governed by the [CNCF Code of Conduct](h
 ### Blogs and Presentations

 1. [Awesome-Argo: A Curated List of Awesome Projects and Resources Related to Argo](https://github.com/terrytangyuan/awesome-argo)
-1. [Unveil the Secret Ingredients of Continuous Delivery at Enterprise Scale with Argo CD](https://akuity.io/blog/secret-ingredients-of-continuous-delivery-at-enterprise-scale-with-argocd/)
+1. [Unveil the Secret Ingredients of Continuous Delivery at Enterprise Scale with Argo CD](https://akuity.io/blog/unveil-the-secret-ingredients-of-continuous-delivery-at-enterprise-scale-with-argocd-kubecon-china-2021/)
 1. [GitOps Without Pipelines With ArgoCD Image Updater](https://youtu.be/avPUQin9kzU)
 1. [Combining Argo CD (GitOps), Crossplane (Control Plane), And KubeVela (OAM)](https://youtu.be/eEcgn_gU3SM)
 1. [How to Apply GitOps to Everything - Combining Argo CD and Crossplane](https://youtu.be/yrj4lmScKHQ)
--- a/SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yml
+++ b/SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ header:
  expiration-date: '2024-10-31T00:00:00.000Z' # One year from initial release.
  last-updated: '2023-10-27'
  last-reviewed: '2023-10-27'
-  commit-hash: 74a367d10e7110209610ba3ec225539ebe5f7522
+  commit-hash: fe606708859574b9b6102a505e260fac5d3fb14e
  project-url: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd
-  project-release: v2.14.0
+  project-release: v2.13.0
  changelog: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases
  license: https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/blob/master/LICENSE
 project-lifecycle:
--- a/USERS.md
+++ b/USERS.md
@@ -11,13 +11,10 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [7shifts](https://www.7shifts.com/)
 1. [Adevinta](https://www.adevinta.com/)
 1. [Adfinis](https://adfinis.com)
-1. [Adobe](https://www.adobe.com/)
 1. [Adventure](https://jp.adventurekk.com/)
 1. [Adyen](https://www.adyen.com)
 1. [AirQo](https://airqo.net/)
 1. [Akuity](https://akuity.io/)
-1. [Alarm.com](https://alarm.com/)
-1. [Alauda](https://alauda.io/)
 1. [Albert Heijn](https://ah.nl/)
 1. [Alibaba Group](https://www.alibabagroup.com/)
 1. [Allianz Direct](https://www.allianzdirect.de/)
@@ -32,19 +29,16 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Arctiq Inc.](https://www.arctiq.ca)
 2. [Arturia](https://www.arturia.com)
 1. [ARZ Allgemeines Rechenzentrum GmbH](https://www.arz.at/)
-1. [Augury](https://www.augury.com/)
 1. [Autodesk](https://www.autodesk.com)
 1. [Axians ACSP](https://www.axians.fr)
 1. [Axual B.V.](https://axual.com)
 1. [Back Market](https://www.backmarket.com)
-1. [Bajaj Finserv Health Ltd.](https://www.bajajfinservhealth.in)
 1. [Baloise](https://www.baloise.com)
 1. [BCDevExchange DevOps Platform](https://bcdevexchange.org/DevOpsPlatform)
 1. [Beat](https://thebeat.co/en/)
 1. [Beez Innovation Labs](https://www.beezlabs.com/)
 1. [Bedag Informatik AG](https://www.bedag.ch/)
 1. [Beleza Na Web](https://www.belezanaweb.com.br/)
-1. [Believable Bots](https://believablebots.io)
 1. [BigPanda](https://bigpanda.io)
 1. [BioBox Analytics](https://biobox.io)
 1. [BMW Group](https://www.bmwgroup.com/)
@@ -79,7 +73,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Codility](https://www.codility.com/)
 1. [Cognizant](https://www.cognizant.com/)
 1. [Commonbond](https://commonbond.co/)
-1. [Compatio.AI](https://compatio.ai/)
 1. [Contlo](https://contlo.com/)
 1. [Coralogix](https://coralogix.com/)
 1. [Crédit Agricole CIB](https://www.ca-cib.com)
@@ -89,7 +82,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [D2iQ](https://www.d2iq.com)
 1. [DaoCloud](https://daocloud.io/)
 1. [Datarisk](https://www.datarisk.io/)
-1. [Daydream](https://daydream.ing)
 1. [Deloitte](https://www.deloitte.com/)
 1. [Deutsche Telekom AG](https://telekom.com)
 1. [Devopsi - Poland Software/DevOps Consulting](https://devopsi.pl/)
@@ -120,7 +112,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [freee](https://corp.freee.co.jp/en/company/)
 1. [Freshop, Inc](https://www.freshop.com/)
 1. [Future PLC](https://www.futureplc.com/)
-1. [Flagler Health](https://www.flaglerhealth.io/)
 1. [G DATA CyberDefense AG](https://www.gdata-software.com/)
 1. [G-Research](https://www.gresearch.com/teams/open-source-software/)
 1. [Garner](https://www.garnercorp.com)
@@ -216,7 +207,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Moengage](https://www.moengage.com/)
 1. [Money Forward](https://corp.moneyforward.com/en/)
 1. [MOO Print](https://www.moo.com/)
-1. [Mozilla](https://www.mozilla.org)
 1. [MTN Group](https://www.mtn.com/)
 1. [Municipality of The Hague](https://www.denhaag.nl/)
 1. [My Job Glasses](https://myjobglasses.com)
@@ -249,7 +239,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Optoro](https://www.optoro.com/)
 1. [Orbital Insight](https://orbitalinsight.com/)
 1. [Oscar Health Insurance](https://hioscar.com/)
-1. [Outpost24](https://outpost24.com/)
 1. [p3r](https://www.p3r.one/)
 1. [Packlink](https://www.packlink.com/)
 1. [PagerDuty](https://www.pagerduty.com/)
@@ -278,7 +267,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [PT Boer Technology (Btech)](https://btech.id/)
 1. [PUBG](https://www.pubg.com)
 1. [Puzzle ITC](https://www.puzzle.ch/)
-1. [Pvotal Technologies](https://pvotal.tech/)
 1. [Qonto](https://qonto.com)
 1. [QuintoAndar](https://quintoandar.com.br)
 1. [Quipper](https://www.quipper.com/)
@@ -315,7 +303,6 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Skyscanner](https://www.skyscanner.net/)
 1. [Smart Pension](https://www.smartpension.co.uk/)
 1. [Smilee.io](https://smilee.io)
-1. [Smilegate Stove](https://www.onstove.com/)
 1. [Smood.ch](https://www.smood.ch/)
 1. [Snapp](https://snapp.ir/)
 1. [Snyk](https://snyk.io/)
@@ -335,17 +322,14 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Swisscom](https://www.swisscom.ch)
 1. [Swissquote](https://github.com/swissquote)
 1. [Syncier](https://syncier.com/)
-1. [Synergy](https://synergy.net.au)
 1. [Syself](https://syself.com)
 1. [TableCheck](https://tablecheck.com/)
 1. [Tailor Brands](https://www.tailorbrands.com)
 1. [Tamkeen Technologies](https://tamkeentech.sa/)
-1. [TBC Bank](https://tbcbank.ge/)
 1. [Techcombank](https://www.techcombank.com.vn/trang-chu)
 1. [Technacy](https://www.technacy.it/)
 1. [Telavita](https://www.telavita.com.br/)
 1. [Tesla](https://tesla.com/)
-1. [TextNow](https://www.textnow.com/)
 1. [The Scale Factory](https://www.scalefactory.com/)
 1. [ThousandEyes](https://www.thousandeyes.com/)
 1. [Ticketmaster](https://ticketmaster.com)
@@ -393,5 +377,4 @@ Currently, the following organizations are **officially** using Argo CD:
 1. [Yubo](https://www.yubo.live/)
 1. [ZDF](https://www.zdf.de/)
 1. [Zimpler](https://www.zimpler.com/)
-1. [ZipRecuiter](https://www.ziprecruiter.com/)
 1. [ZOZO](https://corp.zozo.com/)
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.14.20
+2.13.0
--- a/applicationset/controllers/applicationset_controller.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/applicationset_controller.go
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"reflect"
-	"runtime/debug"
-	"sort"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"

@@ -35,7 +32,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/intstr"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/record"
-	"k8s.io/client-go/util/retry"
 	ctrl "sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/builder"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
@@ -54,6 +50,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/db"

 	argov1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
+	appclientset "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/client/clientset/versioned"
 	argoutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/argo"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/argo/normalizers"

@@ -80,6 +77,7 @@ type ApplicationSetReconciler struct {
 	Recorder             record.EventRecorder
 	Generators           map[string]generators.Generator
 	ArgoDB               db.ArgoDB
+	ArgoAppClientset     appclientset.Interface
 	KubeClientset        kubernetes.Interface
 	Policy               argov1alpha1.ApplicationsSyncPolicy
 	EnablePolicyOverride bool
@@ -91,28 +89,14 @@ type ApplicationSetReconciler struct {
 	GlobalPreservedAnnotations []string
 	GlobalPreservedLabels      []string
 	Metrics                    *metrics.ApplicationsetMetrics
-	MaxResourcesStatusCount    int
 }

 // +kubebuilder:rbac:groups=argoproj.io,resources=applicationsets,verbs=get;list;watch;create;update;patch;delete
 // +kubebuilder:rbac:groups=argoproj.io,resources=applicationsets/status,verbs=get;update;patch

-func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Request) (result ctrl.Result, err error) {
-	startReconcile := time.Now()
+func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Request) (ctrl.Result, error) {
 	logCtx := log.WithField("applicationset", req.NamespacedName)

-	defer func() {
-		if rec := recover(); rec != nil {
-			logCtx.Errorf("Recovered from panic: %+v\n%s", rec, debug.Stack())
-			result = ctrl.Result{}
-			var ok bool
-			err, ok = rec.(error)
-			if !ok {
-				err = fmt.Errorf("%v", r)
-			}
-		}
-	}()
-
 	var applicationSetInfo argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet
 	parametersGenerated := false
 	startTime := time.Now()
@@ -128,8 +112,8 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Reque
 	}()

 	// Do not attempt to further reconcile the ApplicationSet if it is being deleted.
-	if applicationSetInfo.DeletionTimestamp != nil {
-		appsetName := applicationSetInfo.Name
+	if applicationSetInfo.ObjectMeta.DeletionTimestamp != nil {
+		appsetName := applicationSetInfo.ObjectMeta.Name
 		logCtx.Debugf("DeletionTimestamp is set on %s", appsetName)
 		deleteAllowed := utils.DefaultPolicy(applicationSetInfo.Spec.SyncPolicy, r.Policy, r.EnablePolicyOverride).AllowDelete()
 		if !deleteAllowed {
@@ -156,7 +140,6 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Reque
 	// desiredApplications is the main list of all expected Applications from all generators in this appset.
 	desiredApplications, applicationSetReason, err := template.GenerateApplications(logCtx, applicationSetInfo, r.Generators, r.Renderer, r.Client)
 	if err != nil {
-		logCtx.Errorf("unable to generate applications: %v", err)
 		_ = r.setApplicationSetStatusCondition(ctx,
 			&applicationSetInfo,
 			argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetCondition{
@@ -166,8 +149,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Reque
 				Status:  argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetConditionStatusTrue,
 			}, parametersGenerated,
 		)
-		// In order for the controller SDK to respect RequeueAfter, the error must be nil
-		return ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: ReconcileRequeueOnValidationError}, nil
+		return ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: ReconcileRequeueOnValidationError}, err
 	}

 	parametersGenerated = true
@@ -211,16 +193,16 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Reque
 	appSyncMap := map[string]bool{}

 	if r.EnableProgressiveSyncs {
-		if !isRollingSyncStrategy(&applicationSetInfo) && len(applicationSetInfo.Status.ApplicationStatus) > 0 {
-			// If an appset was previously syncing with a `RollingSync` strategy but it has switched to the default strategy, clean up the progressive sync application statuses
+		if applicationSetInfo.Spec.Strategy == nil && len(applicationSetInfo.Status.ApplicationStatus) > 0 {
+			// If appset used progressive sync but stopped, clean up the progressive sync application statuses
 			logCtx.Infof("Removing %v unnecessary AppStatus entries from ApplicationSet %v", len(applicationSetInfo.Status.ApplicationStatus), applicationSetInfo.Name)

 			err := r.setAppSetApplicationStatus(ctx, logCtx, &applicationSetInfo, []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetApplicationStatus{})
 			if err != nil {
 				return ctrl.Result{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to clear previous AppSet application statuses for %v: %w", applicationSetInfo.Name, err)
 			}
-		} else if isRollingSyncStrategy(&applicationSetInfo) {
-			// The appset uses progressive sync with `RollingSync` strategy
+		} else if applicationSetInfo.Spec.Strategy != nil {
+			// appset uses progressive sync
 			for _, app := range currentApplications {
 				appMap[app.Name] = app
 			}
@@ -315,7 +297,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Reque

 	if applicationSetInfo.RefreshRequired() {
 		delete(applicationSetInfo.Annotations, common.AnnotationApplicationSetRefresh)
-		err := r.Update(ctx, &applicationSetInfo)
+		err := r.Client.Update(ctx, &applicationSetInfo)
 		if err != nil {
 			logCtx.Warnf("error occurred while updating ApplicationSet: %v", err)
 			_ = r.setApplicationSetStatusCondition(ctx,
@@ -350,7 +332,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Reque
 		requeueAfter = ReconcileRequeueOnValidationError
 	}

-	logCtx.WithField("requeueAfter", requeueAfter).Info("end reconcile in ", time.Since(startReconcile))
+	logCtx.WithField("requeueAfter", requeueAfter).Info("end reconcile")

 	return ctrl.Result{
 		RequeueAfter: requeueAfter,
@@ -445,29 +427,20 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) setApplicationSetStatusCondition(ctx context.

 	if needToUpdateConditions || len(applicationSet.Status.Conditions) < len(newConditions) {
 		// fetch updated Application Set object before updating it
-		// DefaultRetry will retry 5 times with a backoff factor of 1, jitter of 0.1 and a duration of 10ms
-		err := retry.RetryOnConflict(retry.DefaultRetry, func() error {
-			namespacedName := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: applicationSet.Namespace, Name: applicationSet.Name}
-			updatedAppset := &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{}
-			if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, updatedAppset); err != nil {
-				if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
-					return nil
-				}
-				return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
+		namespacedName := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: applicationSet.Namespace, Name: applicationSet.Name}
+		if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, applicationSet); err != nil {
+			if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
+				return nil
 			}
+			return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
+		}

-			updatedAppset.Status.SetConditions(
-				newConditions, evaluatedTypes,
-			)
+		applicationSet.Status.SetConditions(
+			newConditions, evaluatedTypes,
+		)

-			// Update the newly fetched object with new set of conditions
-			err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, updatedAppset)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			updatedAppset.DeepCopyInto(applicationSet)
-			return nil
-		})
+		// Update the newly fetched object with new set of conditions
+		err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, applicationSet)
 		if err != nil && !apierr.IsNotFound(err) {
 			return fmt.Errorf("unable to set application set condition: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -488,9 +461,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) validateGeneratedApplications(ctx context.Con
 			errorsByIndex[i] = fmt.Errorf("ApplicationSet %s contains applications with duplicate name: %s", applicationSetInfo.Name, app.Name)
 			continue
 		}
-
-		appProject := &argov1alpha1.AppProject{}
-		err := r.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: app.Spec.Project, Namespace: r.ArgoCDNamespace}, appProject)
+		_, err := r.ArgoAppClientset.ArgoprojV1alpha1().AppProjects(r.ArgoCDNamespace).Get(ctx, app.Spec.GetProject(), metav1.GetOptions{})
 		if err != nil {
 			if apierr.IsNotFound(err) {
 				errorsByIndex[i] = fmt.Errorf("application references project %s which does not exist", app.Spec.Project)
@@ -528,9 +499,11 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) getMinRequeueAfter(applicationSetInfo *argov1
 }

 func ignoreNotAllowedNamespaces(namespaces []string) predicate.Predicate {
-	return predicate.NewPredicateFuncs(func(object client.Object) bool {
-		return utils.IsNamespaceAllowed(namespaces, object.GetNamespace())
-	})
+	return predicate.Funcs{
+		CreateFunc: func(e event.CreateEvent) bool {
+			return utils.IsNamespaceAllowed(namespaces, e.Object.GetNamespace())
+		},
+	}
 }

 func appControllerIndexer(rawObj client.Object) []string {
@@ -554,13 +527,12 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) SetupWithManager(mgr ctrl.Manager, enableProg
 		return fmt.Errorf("error setting up with manager: %w", err)
 	}

-	appOwnsHandler := getApplicationOwnsHandler(enableProgressiveSyncs)
-	appSetOwnsHandler := getApplicationSetOwnsHandler(enableProgressiveSyncs)
+	ownsHandler := getOwnsHandlerPredicates(enableProgressiveSyncs)

 	return ctrl.NewControllerManagedBy(mgr).WithOptions(controller.Options{
 		MaxConcurrentReconciles: maxConcurrentReconciliations,
-	}).For(&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{}, builder.WithPredicates(appSetOwnsHandler)).
-		Owns(&argov1alpha1.Application{}, builder.WithPredicates(appOwnsHandler)).
+	}).For(&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{}).
+		Owns(&argov1alpha1.Application{}, builder.WithPredicates(ownsHandler)).
 		WithEventFilter(ignoreNotAllowedNamespaces(r.ApplicationSetNamespaces)).
 		Watches(
 			&corev1.Secret{},
@@ -568,6 +540,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) SetupWithManager(mgr ctrl.Manager, enableProg
 				Client: mgr.GetClient(),
 				Log:    log.WithField("type", "createSecretEventHandler"),
 			}).
+		// TODO: also watch Applications and respond on changes if we own them.
 		Complete(r)
 }

@@ -626,7 +599,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) createOrUpdateInCluster(ctx context.Context,
 			preservedAnnotations = append(preservedAnnotations, defaultPreservedAnnotations...)

 			for _, key := range preservedAnnotations {
-				if state, exists := found.Annotations[key]; exists {
+				if state, exists := found.ObjectMeta.Annotations[key]; exists {
 					if generatedApp.Annotations == nil {
 						generatedApp.Annotations = map[string]string{}
 					}
@@ -635,7 +608,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) createOrUpdateInCluster(ctx context.Context,
 			}

 			for _, key := range preservedLabels {
-				if state, exists := found.Labels[key]; exists {
+				if state, exists := found.ObjectMeta.Labels[key]; exists {
 					if generatedApp.Labels == nil {
 						generatedApp.Labels = map[string]string{}
 					}
@@ -645,7 +618,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) createOrUpdateInCluster(ctx context.Context,

 			// Preserve post-delete finalizers:
 			//   https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues/17181
-			for _, finalizer := range found.Finalizers {
+			for _, finalizer := range found.ObjectMeta.Finalizers {
 				if strings.HasPrefix(finalizer, argov1alpha1.PostDeleteFinalizerName) {
 					if generatedApp.Finalizers == nil {
 						generatedApp.Finalizers = []string{}
@@ -654,10 +627,10 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) createOrUpdateInCluster(ctx context.Context,
 				}
 			}

-			found.Annotations = generatedApp.Annotations
+			found.ObjectMeta.Annotations = generatedApp.Annotations

-			found.Finalizers = generatedApp.Finalizers
-			found.Labels = generatedApp.Labels
+			found.ObjectMeta.Finalizers = generatedApp.Finalizers
+			found.ObjectMeta.Labels = generatedApp.Labels

 			return controllerutil.SetControllerReference(&applicationSet, found, r.Scheme)
 		})
@@ -711,7 +684,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) createInCluster(ctx context.Context, logCtx *

 func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) getCurrentApplications(ctx context.Context, applicationSet argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet) ([]argov1alpha1.Application, error) {
 	var current argov1alpha1.ApplicationList
-	err := r.List(ctx, &current, client.MatchingFields{".metadata.controller": applicationSet.Name}, client.InNamespace(applicationSet.Namespace))
+	err := r.Client.List(ctx, &current, client.MatchingFields{".metadata.controller": applicationSet.Name}, client.InNamespace(applicationSet.Namespace))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error retrieving applications: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -722,6 +695,9 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) getCurrentApplications(ctx context.Context, a
 // deleteInCluster will delete Applications that are currently on the cluster, but not in appList.
 // The function must be called after all generators had been called and generated applications
 func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) deleteInCluster(ctx context.Context, logCtx *log.Entry, applicationSet argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet, desiredApplications []argov1alpha1.Application) error {
+	// settingsMgr := settings.NewSettingsManager(context.TODO(), r.KubeClientset, applicationSet.Namespace)
+	// argoDB := db.NewDB(applicationSet.Namespace, settingsMgr, r.KubeClientset)
+	// clusterList, err := argoDB.ListClusters(ctx)
 	clusterList, err := utils.ListClusters(ctx, r.KubeClientset, r.ArgoCDNamespace)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error listing clusters: %w", err)
@@ -756,7 +732,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) deleteInCluster(ctx context.Context, logCtx *
 				continue
 			}

-			err = r.Delete(ctx, &app)
+			err = r.Client.Delete(ctx, &app)
 			if err != nil {
 				logCtx.WithError(err).Error("failed to delete Application")
 				if firstError != nil {
@@ -828,7 +804,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) removeFinalizerOnInvalidDestination(ctx conte
 			if log.IsLevelEnabled(log.DebugLevel) {
 				utils.LogPatch(appLog, patch, updated)
 			}
-			if err := r.Patch(ctx, updated, patch); err != nil {
+			if err := r.Client.Patch(ctx, updated, patch); err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("error updating finalizers: %w", err)
 			}
 			// Application must have updated list of finalizers
@@ -850,7 +826,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) removeOwnerReferencesOnDeleteAppSet(ctx conte

 	for _, app := range applications {
 		app.SetOwnerReferences([]metav1.OwnerReference{})
-		err := r.Update(ctx, &app)
+		err := r.Client.Update(ctx, &app)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("error updating application: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -1006,14 +982,8 @@ func appSyncEnabledForNextStep(appset *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet, app argov1al
 	return true
 }

-func isRollingSyncStrategy(appset *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet) bool {
-	// It's only RollingSync if the type specifically sets it
-	return appset.Spec.Strategy != nil && appset.Spec.Strategy.Type == "RollingSync" && appset.Spec.Strategy.RollingSync != nil
-}
-
 func progressiveSyncsRollingSyncStrategyEnabled(appset *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet) bool {
-	// ProgressiveSync is enabled if the strategy is set to `RollingSync` + steps slice is not empty
-	return isRollingSyncStrategy(appset) && len(appset.Spec.Strategy.RollingSync.Steps) > 0
+	return appset.Spec.Strategy != nil && appset.Spec.Strategy.RollingSync != nil && appset.Spec.Strategy.Type == "RollingSync"
 }

 func isApplicationHealthy(app argov1alpha1.Application) bool {
@@ -1036,16 +1006,6 @@ func statusStrings(app argov1alpha1.Application) (string, string, string) {
 	return healthStatusString, syncStatusString, operationPhaseString
 }

-func getAppStep(appName string, appStepMap map[string]int) int {
-	// if an application is not selected by any match expression, it defaults to step -1
-	step := -1
-	if appStep, ok := appStepMap[appName]; ok {
-		// 1-based indexing
-		step = appStep + 1
-	}
-	return step
-}
-
 // check the status of each Application's status and promote Applications to the next status if needed
 func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatus(ctx context.Context, logCtx *log.Entry, applicationSet *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet, applications []argov1alpha1.Application, appStepMap map[string]int) ([]argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetApplicationStatus, error) {
 	now := metav1.Now()
@@ -1065,21 +1025,20 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatus(ctx con
 				LastTransitionTime: &now,
 				Message:            "No Application status found, defaulting status to Waiting.",
 				Status:             "Waiting",
-				Step:               strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(app.Name, appStepMap)),
+				Step:               fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[app.Name] + 1),
+				TargetRevisions:    app.Status.GetRevisions(),
 			}
 		} else {
 			// we have an existing AppStatus
 			currentAppStatus = applicationSet.Status.ApplicationStatus[idx]
-			if !reflect.DeepEqual(currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions, app.Status.GetRevisions()) {
-				currentAppStatus.Message = "Application has pending changes, setting status to Waiting."
+
+			// upgrade any existing AppStatus that might have been set by an older argo-cd version
+			// note: currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions may be set to empty list earlier during migrations,
+			// to prevent other usage of r.Client.Status().Update to fail before reaching here.
+			if currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions == nil || len(currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions) == 0 {
+				currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions = app.Status.GetRevisions()
 			}
 		}
-		if !reflect.DeepEqual(currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions, app.Status.GetRevisions()) {
-			currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions = app.Status.GetRevisions()
-			currentAppStatus.Status = "Waiting"
-			currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
-			currentAppStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(currentAppStatus.Application, appStepMap))
-		}

 		appOutdated := false
 		if progressiveSyncsRollingSyncStrategyEnabled(applicationSet) {
@@ -1091,22 +1050,32 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatus(ctx con
 			currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
 			currentAppStatus.Status = "Waiting"
 			currentAppStatus.Message = "Application has pending changes, setting status to Waiting."
-			currentAppStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(currentAppStatus.Application, appStepMap))
+			currentAppStatus.Step = fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[currentAppStatus.Application] + 1)
+			currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions = app.Status.GetRevisions()
 		}

 		if currentAppStatus.Status == "Pending" {
-			if !appOutdated && operationPhaseString == "Succeeded" {
-				logCtx.Infof("Application %v has completed a sync successfully, updating its ApplicationSet status to Progressing", app.Name)
-				currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
-				currentAppStatus.Status = "Progressing"
-				currentAppStatus.Message = "Application resource completed a sync successfully, updating status from Pending to Progressing."
-				currentAppStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(currentAppStatus.Application, appStepMap))
+			if operationPhaseString == "Succeeded" {
+				revisions := []string{}
+				if len(app.Status.OperationState.SyncResult.Revisions) > 0 {
+					revisions = app.Status.OperationState.SyncResult.Revisions
+				} else if app.Status.OperationState.SyncResult.Revision != "" {
+					revisions = append(revisions, app.Status.OperationState.SyncResult.Revision)
+				}
+
+				if reflect.DeepEqual(currentAppStatus.TargetRevisions, revisions) {
+					logCtx.Infof("Application %v has completed a sync successfully, updating its ApplicationSet status to Progressing", app.Name)
+					currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
+					currentAppStatus.Status = "Progressing"
+					currentAppStatus.Message = "Application resource completed a sync successfully, updating status from Pending to Progressing."
+					currentAppStatus.Step = fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[currentAppStatus.Application] + 1)
+				}
 			} else if operationPhaseString == "Running" || healthStatusString == "Progressing" {
 				logCtx.Infof("Application %v has entered Progressing status, updating its ApplicationSet status to Progressing", app.Name)
 				currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
 				currentAppStatus.Status = "Progressing"
 				currentAppStatus.Message = "Application resource became Progressing, updating status from Pending to Progressing."
-				currentAppStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(currentAppStatus.Application, appStepMap))
+				currentAppStatus.Step = fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[currentAppStatus.Application] + 1)
 			}
 		}

@@ -1115,7 +1084,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatus(ctx con
 			currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
 			currentAppStatus.Status = healthStatusString
 			currentAppStatus.Message = "Application resource is already Healthy, updating status from Waiting to Healthy."
-			currentAppStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(currentAppStatus.Application, appStepMap))
+			currentAppStatus.Step = fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[currentAppStatus.Application] + 1)
 		}

 		if currentAppStatus.Status == "Progressing" && isApplicationHealthy(app) {
@@ -1123,7 +1092,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatus(ctx con
 			currentAppStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
 			currentAppStatus.Status = healthStatusString
 			currentAppStatus.Message = "Application resource became Healthy, updating status from Progressing to Healthy."
-			currentAppStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(currentAppStatus.Application, appStepMap))
+			currentAppStatus.Step = fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[currentAppStatus.Application] + 1)
 		}

 		appStatuses = append(appStatuses, currentAppStatus)
@@ -1144,12 +1113,14 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatusProgress
 	appStatuses := make([]argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetApplicationStatus, 0, len(applicationSet.Status.ApplicationStatus))

 	// if we have no RollingUpdate steps, clear out the existing ApplicationStatus entries
-	if progressiveSyncsRollingSyncStrategyEnabled(applicationSet) {
+	if applicationSet.Spec.Strategy != nil && applicationSet.Spec.Strategy.Type != "" && applicationSet.Spec.Strategy.Type != "AllAtOnce" {
 		updateCountMap := []int{}
 		totalCountMap := []int{}

-		length := len(applicationSet.Spec.Strategy.RollingSync.Steps)
-
+		length := 0
+		if progressiveSyncsRollingSyncStrategyEnabled(applicationSet) {
+			length = len(applicationSet.Spec.Strategy.RollingSync.Steps)
+		}
 		for s := 0; s < length; s++ {
 			updateCountMap = append(updateCountMap, 0)
 			totalCountMap = append(totalCountMap, 0)
@@ -1159,8 +1130,10 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatusProgress
 		for _, appStatus := range applicationSet.Status.ApplicationStatus {
 			totalCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]] += 1

-			if appStatus.Status == "Pending" || appStatus.Status == "Progressing" {
-				updateCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]] += 1
+			if progressiveSyncsRollingSyncStrategyEnabled(applicationSet) {
+				if appStatus.Status == "Pending" || appStatus.Status == "Progressing" {
+					updateCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]] += 1
+				}
 			}
 		}

@@ -1185,7 +1158,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatusProgress

 				if updateCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]] >= maxUpdateVal {
 					maxUpdateAllowed = false
-					logCtx.Infof("Application %v is not allowed to update yet, %v/%v Applications already updating in step %v in AppSet %v", appStatus.Application, updateCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]], maxUpdateVal, getAppStep(appStatus.Application, appStepMap), applicationSet.Name)
+					logCtx.Infof("Application %v is not allowed to update yet, %v/%v Applications already updating in step %v in AppSet %v", appStatus.Application, updateCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]], maxUpdateVal, appStepMap[appStatus.Application]+1, applicationSet.Name)
 				}
 			}

@@ -1194,7 +1167,7 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateApplicationSetApplicationStatusProgress
 				appStatus.LastTransitionTime = &now
 				appStatus.Status = "Pending"
 				appStatus.Message = "Application moved to Pending status, watching for the Application resource to start Progressing."
-				appStatus.Step = strconv.Itoa(getAppStep(appStatus.Application, appStepMap))
+				appStatus.Step = fmt.Sprint(appStepMap[appStatus.Application] + 1)

 				updateCountMap[appStepMap[appStatus.Application]] += 1
 			}
@@ -1276,29 +1249,15 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) migrateStatus(ctx context.Context, appset *ar
 	}

 	if update {
-		// DefaultRetry will retry 5 times with a backoff factor of 1, jitter of 0.1 and a duration of 10ms
-		err := retry.RetryOnConflict(retry.DefaultRetry, func() error {
-			namespacedName := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: appset.Namespace, Name: appset.Name}
-			updatedAppset := &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{}
-			if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, updatedAppset); err != nil {
-				if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
-					return nil
-				}
-				return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
+		namespacedName := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: appset.Namespace, Name: appset.Name}
+		if err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, appset); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("unable to set application set status: %w", err)
+		}
+		if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, appset); err != nil {
+			if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
+				return nil
 			}
-
-			updatedAppset.Status.ApplicationStatus = appset.Status.ApplicationStatus
-
-			// Update the newly fetched object with new set of ApplicationStatus
-			err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, updatedAppset)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			updatedAppset.DeepCopyInto(appset)
-			return nil
-		})
-		if err != nil && !apierr.IsNotFound(err) {
-			return fmt.Errorf("unable to set application set condition: %w", err)
+			return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
@@ -1312,40 +1271,22 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) updateResourcesStatus(ctx context.Context, lo
 	for _, status := range statusMap {
 		statuses = append(statuses, status)
 	}
-	sort.Slice(statuses, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return statuses[i].Name < statuses[j].Name
-	})
-
-	if r.MaxResourcesStatusCount > 0 && len(statuses) > r.MaxResourcesStatusCount {
-		logCtx.Warnf("Truncating ApplicationSet %s resource status from %d to max allowed %d entries", appset.Name, len(statuses), r.MaxResourcesStatusCount)
-		statuses = statuses[:r.MaxResourcesStatusCount]
-	}
 	appset.Status.Resources = statuses
-	// DefaultRetry will retry 5 times with a backoff factor of 1, jitter of 0.1 and a duration of 10ms
-	err := retry.RetryOnConflict(retry.DefaultRetry, func() error {
-		namespacedName := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: appset.Namespace, Name: appset.Name}
-		updatedAppset := &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{}
-		if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, updatedAppset); err != nil {
-			if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
-				return nil
-			}
-			return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
-		}

-		updatedAppset.Status.Resources = appset.Status.Resources
-
-		// Update the newly fetched object with new status resources
-		err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, updatedAppset)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		updatedAppset.DeepCopyInto(appset)
-		return nil
-	})
+	namespacedName := types.NamespacedName{Namespace: appset.Namespace, Name: appset.Name}
+	err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, appset)
 	if err != nil {
 		logCtx.Errorf("unable to set application set status: %v", err)
 		return fmt.Errorf("unable to set application set status: %w", err)
 	}
+
+	if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, appset); err != nil {
+		if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
+	}
+
 	return nil
 }

@@ -1380,30 +1321,20 @@ func (r *ApplicationSetReconciler) setAppSetApplicationStatus(ctx context.Contex
 		for i := range applicationStatuses {
 			applicationSet.Status.SetApplicationStatus(applicationStatuses[i])
 		}
-		// DefaultRetry will retry 5 times with a backoff factor of 1, jitter of 0.1 and a duration of 10ms
-		err := retry.RetryOnConflict(retry.DefaultRetry, func() error {
-			updatedAppset := &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{}
-			if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, updatedAppset); err != nil {
-				if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
-					return nil
-				}
-				return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
-			}

-			updatedAppset.Status.ApplicationStatus = applicationSet.Status.ApplicationStatus
-
-			// Update the newly fetched object with new set of ApplicationStatus
-			err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, updatedAppset)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			updatedAppset.DeepCopyInto(applicationSet)
-			return nil
-		})
+		// Update the newly fetched object with new set of ApplicationStatus
+		err := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, applicationSet)
 		if err != nil {
 			logCtx.Errorf("unable to set application set status: %v", err)
 			return fmt.Errorf("unable to set application set status: %w", err)
 		}
+
+		if err := r.Get(ctx, namespacedName, applicationSet); err != nil {
+			if client.IgnoreNotFound(err) != nil {
+				return nil
+			}
+			return fmt.Errorf("error fetching updated application set: %w", err)
+		}
 	}

 	return nil
@@ -1467,7 +1398,7 @@ func syncApplication(application argov1alpha1.Application, prune bool) argov1alp
 	return application
 }

-func getApplicationOwnsHandler(enableProgressiveSyncs bool) predicate.Funcs {
+func getOwnsHandlerPredicates(enableProgressiveSyncs bool) predicate.Funcs {
 	return predicate.Funcs{
 		CreateFunc: func(e event.CreateEvent) bool {
 			// if we are the owner and there is a create event, we most likely created it and do not need to
@@ -1504,8 +1435,8 @@ func getApplicationOwnsHandler(enableProgressiveSyncs bool) predicate.Funcs {
 			if !isApp {
 				return false
 			}
-			requeue := shouldRequeueForApplication(appOld, appNew, enableProgressiveSyncs)
-			logCtx.WithField("requeue", requeue).Debugf("requeue caused by application %s", appNew.Name)
+			requeue := shouldRequeueApplicationSet(appOld, appNew, enableProgressiveSyncs)
+			logCtx.WithField("requeue", requeue).Debugf("requeue: %t caused by application %s\n", requeue, appNew.Name)
 			return requeue
 		},
 		GenericFunc: func(e event.GenericEvent) bool {
@@ -1522,13 +1453,13 @@ func getApplicationOwnsHandler(enableProgressiveSyncs bool) predicate.Funcs {
 	}
 }

-// shouldRequeueForApplication determines when we want to requeue an ApplicationSet for reconciling based on an owned
+// shouldRequeueApplicationSet determines when we want to requeue an ApplicationSet for reconciling based on an owned
 // application change
 // The applicationset controller owns a subset of the Application CR.
 // We do not need to re-reconcile if parts of the application change outside the applicationset's control.
 // An example being, Application.ApplicationStatus.ReconciledAt which gets updated by the application controller.
 // Additionally, Application.ObjectMeta.ResourceVersion and Application.ObjectMeta.Generation which are set by K8s.
-func shouldRequeueForApplication(appOld *argov1alpha1.Application, appNew *argov1alpha1.Application, enableProgressiveSyncs bool) bool {
+func shouldRequeueApplicationSet(appOld *argov1alpha1.Application, appNew *argov1alpha1.Application, enableProgressiveSyncs bool) bool {
 	if appOld == nil || appNew == nil {
 		return false
 	}
@@ -1538,9 +1469,9 @@ func shouldRequeueForApplication(appOld *argov1alpha1.Application, appNew *argov
 	// https://pkg.go.dev/reflect#DeepEqual
 	// ApplicationDestination has an unexported field so we can just use the == for comparison
 	if !cmp.Equal(appOld.Spec, appNew.Spec, cmpopts.EquateEmpty(), cmpopts.EquateComparable(argov1alpha1.ApplicationDestination{})) ||
-		!cmp.Equal(appOld.GetAnnotations(), appNew.GetAnnotations(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) ||
-		!cmp.Equal(appOld.GetLabels(), appNew.GetLabels(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) ||
-		!cmp.Equal(appOld.GetFinalizers(), appNew.GetFinalizers(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) {
+		!cmp.Equal(appOld.ObjectMeta.GetAnnotations(), appNew.ObjectMeta.GetAnnotations(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) ||
+		!cmp.Equal(appOld.ObjectMeta.GetLabels(), appNew.ObjectMeta.GetLabels(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) ||
+		!cmp.Equal(appOld.ObjectMeta.GetFinalizers(), appNew.ObjectMeta.GetFinalizers(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) {
 		return true
 	}

@@ -1561,90 +1492,4 @@ func shouldRequeueForApplication(appOld *argov1alpha1.Application, appNew *argov
 	return false
 }

-func getApplicationSetOwnsHandler(enableProgressiveSyncs bool) predicate.Funcs {
-	return predicate.Funcs{
-		CreateFunc: func(e event.CreateEvent) bool {
-			appSet, isApp := e.Object.(*argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet)
-			if !isApp {
-				return false
-			}
-			log.WithField("applicationset", appSet.QualifiedName()).Debugln("received create event")
-			// Always queue a new applicationset
-			return true
-		},
-		DeleteFunc: func(e event.DeleteEvent) bool {
-			appSet, isApp := e.Object.(*argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet)
-			if !isApp {
-				return false
-			}
-			log.WithField("applicationset", appSet.QualifiedName()).Debugln("received delete event")
-			// Always queue for the deletion of an applicationset
-			return true
-		},
-		UpdateFunc: func(e event.UpdateEvent) bool {
-			appSetOld, isAppSet := e.ObjectOld.(*argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet)
-			if !isAppSet {
-				return false
-			}
-			appSetNew, isAppSet := e.ObjectNew.(*argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet)
-			if !isAppSet {
-				return false
-			}
-			requeue := shouldRequeueForApplicationSet(appSetOld, appSetNew, enableProgressiveSyncs)
-			log.WithField("applicationset", appSetNew.QualifiedName()).
-				WithField("requeue", requeue).Debugln("received update event")
-			return requeue
-		},
-		GenericFunc: func(e event.GenericEvent) bool {
-			appSet, isApp := e.Object.(*argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet)
-			if !isApp {
-				return false
-			}
-			log.WithField("applicationset", appSet.QualifiedName()).Debugln("received generic event")
-			// Always queue for the generic of an applicationset
-			return true
-		},
-	}
-}
-
-// shouldRequeueForApplicationSet determines when we need to requeue an applicationset
-func shouldRequeueForApplicationSet(appSetOld, appSetNew *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet, enableProgressiveSyncs bool) bool {
-	if appSetOld == nil || appSetNew == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	// Requeue if any ApplicationStatus.Status changed for Progressive sync strategy
-	if enableProgressiveSyncs {
-		if !cmp.Equal(appSetOld.Status.ApplicationStatus, appSetNew.Status.ApplicationStatus, cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-
-	// only compare the applicationset spec, annotations, labels and finalizers, deletionTimestamp, specifically avoiding
-	// the status field. status is owned by the applicationset controller,
-	// and we do not need to requeue when it does bookkeeping
-	// NB: the ApplicationDestination comes from the ApplicationSpec being embedded
-	// in the ApplicationSetTemplate from the generators
-	if !cmp.Equal(appSetOld.Spec, appSetNew.Spec, cmpopts.EquateEmpty(), cmpopts.EquateComparable(argov1alpha1.ApplicationDestination{})) ||
-		!cmp.Equal(appSetOld.GetLabels(), appSetNew.GetLabels(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) ||
-		!cmp.Equal(appSetOld.GetFinalizers(), appSetNew.GetFinalizers(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) ||
-		!cmp.Equal(appSetOld.DeletionTimestamp, appSetNew.DeletionTimestamp, cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) {
-		return true
-	}
-
-	// Requeue only when the refresh annotation is newly added to the ApplicationSet.
-	// Changes to other annotations made simultaneously might be missed, but such cases are rare.
-	if !cmp.Equal(appSetOld.GetAnnotations(), appSetNew.GetAnnotations(), cmpopts.EquateEmpty()) {
-		_, oldHasRefreshAnnotation := appSetOld.Annotations[common.AnnotationApplicationSetRefresh]
-		_, newHasRefreshAnnotation := appSetNew.Annotations[common.AnnotationApplicationSetRefresh]
-
-		if oldHasRefreshAnnotation && !newHasRefreshAnnotation {
-			return false
-		}
-		return true
-	}
-
-	return false
-}
-
 var _ handler.EventHandler = &clusterSecretEventHandler{}
--- a/applicationset/controllers/applicationset_controller_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/applicationset_controller_test.go
--- a/applicationset/controllers/clustereventhandler.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/clustereventhandler.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/event"

-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
+	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/generators"
 	argoprojiov1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
 )

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ type addRateLimitingInterface[T comparable] interface {

 func (h *clusterSecretEventHandler) queueRelatedAppGenerators(ctx context.Context, q addRateLimitingInterface[reconcile.Request], object client.Object) {
 	// Check for label, lookup all ApplicationSets that might match the cluster, queue them all
-	if object.GetLabels()[common.LabelKeySecretType] != common.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster {
+	if object.GetLabels()[generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel] != generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster {
 		return
 	}

--- a/applicationset/controllers/clustereventhandler_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/clustereventhandler_test.go
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"testing"

-	argocommon "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
-
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -18,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client/fake"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/reconcile"

+	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/generators"
 	argov1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
 )

@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -158,7 +157,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -255,7 +254,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -305,7 +304,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -356,7 +355,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -390,7 +389,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -426,7 +425,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -476,7 +475,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -527,7 +526,7 @@ func TestClusterEventHandler(t *testing.T) {
 					Namespace: "argocd",
 					Name:      "my-secret",
 					Labels: map[string]string{
-						argocommon.LabelKeySecretType: argocommon.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster,
+						generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel: generators.ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster,
 					},
 				},
 			},
--- a/applicationset/controllers/requeue_after_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/requeue_after_test.go
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func TestRequeueAfter(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	}
 	fakeDynClient := dynfake.NewSimpleDynamicClientWithCustomListKinds(runtime.NewScheme(), gvrToListKind, duckType)
-	scmConfig := generators.NewSCMConfig("", []string{""}, true, nil, true)
+	scmConfig := generators.NewSCMConfig("", []string{""}, true, nil)
 	terminalGenerators := map[string]generators.Generator{
 		"List":                    generators.NewListGenerator(),
 		"Clusters":                generators.NewClusterGenerator(k8sClient, ctx, appClientset, "argocd"),
@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ func TestRequeueAfter(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	type args struct {
-		appset               *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet
-		requeueAfterOverride string
+		appset *argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet
 	}
 	tests := []struct {
 		name    string
@@ -109,13 +108,11 @@ func TestRequeueAfter(t *testing.T) {
 		want    time.Duration
 		wantErr assert.ErrorAssertionFunc
 	}{
-		{name: "Cluster", args: args{
-			appset: &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
-				Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
-					Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{{Clusters: &argov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{}}},
-				},
-			}, requeueAfterOverride: "",
-		}, want: generators.NoRequeueAfter, wantErr: assert.NoError},
+		{name: "Cluster", args: args{appset: &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
+			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
+				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{{Clusters: &argov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{}}},
+			},
+		}}, want: generators.NoRequeueAfter, wantErr: assert.NoError},
 		{name: "ClusterMergeNested", args: args{&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
 			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
 				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{
@@ -130,7 +127,7 @@ func TestRequeueAfter(t *testing.T) {
 					}},
 				},
 			},
-		}, ""}, want: generators.DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds, wantErr: assert.NoError},
+		}}, want: generators.DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds, wantErr: assert.NoError},
 		{name: "ClusterMatrixNested", args: args{&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
 			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
 				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{
@@ -145,65 +142,15 @@ func TestRequeueAfter(t *testing.T) {
 					}},
 				},
 			},
-		}, ""}, want: generators.DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds, wantErr: assert.NoError},
+		}}, want: generators.DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds, wantErr: assert.NoError},
 		{name: "ListGenerator", args: args{appset: &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
 			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
 				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{{List: &argov1alpha1.ListGenerator{}}},
 			},
 		}}, want: generators.NoRequeueAfter, wantErr: assert.NoError},
-		{name: "DuckGenerator", args: args{appset: &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
-			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
-				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{{ClusterDecisionResource: &argov1alpha1.DuckTypeGenerator{}}},
-			},
-		}}, want: generators.DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds, wantErr: assert.NoError},
-		{name: "OverrideRequeueDuck", args: args{
-			appset: &argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
-				Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
-					Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{{ClusterDecisionResource: &argov1alpha1.DuckTypeGenerator{}}},
-				},
-			}, requeueAfterOverride: "1h",
-		}, want: 1 * time.Hour, wantErr: assert.NoError},
-		{name: "OverrideRequeueGit", args: args{&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
-			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
-				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{
-					{Git: &argov1alpha1.GitGenerator{}},
-				},
-			},
-		}, "1h"}, want: 1 * time.Hour, wantErr: assert.NoError},
-		{name: "OverrideRequeueMatrix", args: args{&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
-			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
-				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{
-					{Clusters: &argov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{}},
-					{Merge: &argov1alpha1.MergeGenerator{
-						Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetNestedGenerator{
-							{
-								Clusters: &argov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{},
-								Git:      &argov1alpha1.GitGenerator{},
-							},
-						},
-					}},
-				},
-			},
-		}, "5m"}, want: 5 * time.Minute, wantErr: assert.NoError},
-		{name: "OverrideRequeueMerge", args: args{&argov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
-			Spec: argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetSpec{
-				Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator{
-					{Clusters: &argov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{}},
-					{Merge: &argov1alpha1.MergeGenerator{
-						Generators: []argov1alpha1.ApplicationSetNestedGenerator{
-							{
-								Clusters: &argov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{},
-								Git:      &argov1alpha1.GitGenerator{},
-							},
-						},
-					}},
-				},
-			},
-		}, "12s"}, want: 12 * time.Second, wantErr: assert.NoError},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Setenv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_REQUEUE_AFTER", tt.args.requeueAfterOverride)
 			assert.Equalf(t, tt.want, r.getMinRequeueAfter(tt.args.appset), "getMinRequeueAfter(%v)", tt.args.appset)
 		})
 	}
--- a/applicationset/controllers/template/template.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/template/template.go
@@ -69,11 +69,9 @@ func GenerateApplications(logCtx *log.Entry, applicationSetInfo argov1alpha1.App
 				res = append(res, *app)
 			}
 		}
-		if log.IsLevelEnabled(log.DebugLevel) {
-			logCtx.WithField("generator", requestedGenerator).Debugf("apps from generator: %+v", res)
-		} else {
-			logCtx.Infof("generated %d applications", len(res))
-		}
+
+		logCtx.WithField("generator", requestedGenerator).Infof("generated %d applications", len(res))
+		logCtx.WithField("generator", requestedGenerator).Debugf("apps from generator: %+v", res)
 	}

 	return res, applicationSetReason, firstError
--- a/applicationset/controllers/template/template_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/controllers/template/template_test.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package template

 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"maps"
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/mock"
@@ -19,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	rendmock "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/utils/mocks"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
+	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/collections"
 )

 func TestGenerateApplications(t *testing.T) {
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ func TestGenerateAppsUsingPullRequestGenerator(t *testing.T) {
 			assert.EqualValues(t, cases.expectedApp[0].ObjectMeta.Name, gotApp[0].ObjectMeta.Name)
 			assert.EqualValues(t, cases.expectedApp[0].Spec.Source.TargetRevision, gotApp[0].Spec.Source.TargetRevision)
 			assert.EqualValues(t, cases.expectedApp[0].Spec.Destination.Namespace, gotApp[0].Spec.Destination.Namespace)
-			assert.True(t, maps.Equal(cases.expectedApp[0].ObjectMeta.Labels, gotApp[0].ObjectMeta.Labels))
+			assert.True(t, collections.StringMapsEqual(cases.expectedApp[0].ObjectMeta.Labels, gotApp[0].ObjectMeta.Labels))
 		})
 	}
 }
--- a/applicationset/generators/cluster.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/cluster.go
@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"

 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/utils"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	argoappsetv1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
 )

+const (
+	ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel   = "argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type"
+	ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster = "cluster"
+)
+
 var _ Generator = (*ClusterGenerator)(nil)

 // ClusterGenerator generates Applications for some or all clusters registered with ArgoCD.
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ func NewClusterGenerator(c client.Client, ctx context.Context, clientset kuberne

 // GetRequeueAfter never requeue the cluster generator because the `clusterSecretEventHandler` will requeue the appsets
 // when the cluster secrets change
-func (g *ClusterGenerator) GetRequeueAfter(_ *argoappsetv1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator) time.Duration {
+func (g *ClusterGenerator) GetRequeueAfter(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator) time.Duration {
 	return NoRequeueAfter
 }

@@ -57,7 +61,6 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) GetTemplate(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.Appli
 }

 func (g *ClusterGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator, appSet *argoappsetv1alpha1.ApplicationSet, _ client.Client) ([]map[string]interface{}, error) {
-	logCtx := log.WithField("applicationset", appSet.GetName()).WithField("namespace", appSet.GetNamespace())
 	if appSetGenerator == nil {
 		return nil, EmptyAppSetGeneratorError
 	}
@@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.Ap
 		return nil, nil
 	}

-	clusterSecrets, err := g.getSecretsByClusterName(logCtx, appSetGenerator)
+	clusterSecrets, err := g.getSecretsByClusterName(appSetGenerator)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting cluster secrets: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -89,10 +92,6 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.Ap

 	secretsFound := []corev1.Secret{}

-	isFlatMode := appSetGenerator.Clusters.FlatList
-	logCtx.Debugf("Using flat mode = %t for cluster generator", isFlatMode)
-	clustersParams := make([]map[string]interface{}, 0)
-
 	for _, cluster := range clustersFromArgoCD.Items {
 		// If there is a secret for this cluster, then it's a non-local cluster, so it will be
 		// handled by the next step.
@@ -104,20 +103,15 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.Ap
 			params["name"] = cluster.Name
 			params["nameNormalized"] = cluster.Name
 			params["server"] = cluster.Server
-			params["project"] = ""

 			err = appendTemplatedValues(appSetGenerator.Clusters.Values, params, appSet.Spec.GoTemplate, appSet.Spec.GoTemplateOptions)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error appending templated values for local cluster: %w", err)
 			}

-			if isFlatMode {
-				clustersParams = append(clustersParams, params)
-			} else {
-				res = append(res, params)
-			}
+			res = append(res, params)

-			logCtx.WithField("cluster", "local cluster").Info("matched local cluster")
+			log.WithField("cluster", "local cluster").Info("matched local cluster")
 		}
 	}

@@ -129,13 +123,6 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.Ap
 		params["nameNormalized"] = utils.SanitizeName(string(cluster.Data["name"]))
 		params["server"] = string(cluster.Data["server"])

-		project, ok := cluster.Data["project"]
-		if ok {
-			params["project"] = string(project)
-		} else {
-			params["project"] = ""
-		}
-
 		if appSet.Spec.GoTemplate {
 			meta := map[string]interface{}{}

@@ -162,27 +149,19 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.Ap
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error appending templated values for cluster: %w", err)
 		}

-		if isFlatMode {
-			clustersParams = append(clustersParams, params)
-		} else {
-			res = append(res, params)
-		}
+		res = append(res, params)

-		logCtx.WithField("cluster", cluster.Name).Debug("matched cluster secret")
+		log.WithField("cluster", cluster.Name).Info("matched cluster secret")
 	}

-	if isFlatMode {
-		res = append(res, map[string]interface{}{
-			"clusters": clustersParams,
-		})
-	}
 	return res, nil
 }

-func (g *ClusterGenerator) getSecretsByClusterName(log *log.Entry, appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator) (map[string]corev1.Secret, error) {
+func (g *ClusterGenerator) getSecretsByClusterName(appSetGenerator *argoappsetv1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator) (map[string]corev1.Secret, error) {
+	// List all Clusters:
 	clusterSecretList := &corev1.SecretList{}

-	selector := metav1.AddLabelToSelector(&appSetGenerator.Clusters.Selector, common.LabelKeySecretType, common.LabelValueSecretTypeCluster)
+	selector := metav1.AddLabelToSelector(&appSetGenerator.Clusters.Selector, ArgoCDSecretTypeLabel, ArgoCDSecretTypeCluster)
 	secretSelector, err := metav1.LabelSelectorAsSelector(selector)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error converting label selector: %w", err)
@@ -191,7 +170,7 @@ func (g *ClusterGenerator) getSecretsByClusterName(log *log.Entry, appSetGenerat
 	if err := g.Client.List(context.Background(), clusterSecretList, client.MatchingLabelsSelector{Selector: secretSelector}); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	log.Debugf("clusters matching labels: %d", len(clusterSecretList.Items))
+	log.Debug("clusters matching labels", "count", len(clusterSecretList.Items))

 	res := map[string]corev1.Secret{}

--- a/applicationset/generators/cluster_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/cluster_test.go
@@ -76,20 +76,18 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 			Data: map[string][]byte{
-				"config":  []byte("{}"),
-				"name":    []byte("production_01/west"),
-				"server":  []byte("https://production-01.example.com"),
-				"project": []byte("prod-project"),
+				"config": []byte("{}"),
+				"name":   []byte("production_01/west"),
+				"server": []byte("https://production-01.example.com"),
 			},
 			Type: corev1.SecretType("Opaque"),
 		},
 	}
 	testCases := []struct {
-		name       string
-		selector   metav1.LabelSelector
-		isFlatMode bool
-		values     map[string]string
-		expected   []map[string]interface{}
+		name     string
+		selector metav1.LabelSelector
+		values   map[string]string
+		expected []map[string]interface{}
 		// clientError is true if a k8s client error should be simulated
 		clientError   bool
 		expectedError error
@@ -107,16 +105,17 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 				"aaa":   "{{ server }}",
 				"no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}",
 			}, expected: []map[string]interface{}{
-				{"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "{{ metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io }}", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "{{ metadata.labels.environment }}", "values.aaa": "https://kubernetes.default.svc", "nameNormalized": "in-cluster", "name": "in-cluster", "server": "https://kubernetes.default.svc", "project": ""},
 				{
 					"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "production", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "production", "values.aaa": "https://production-01.example.com", "name": "production_01/west", "nameNormalized": "production-01-west", "server": "https://production-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "production", "metadata.labels.org": "bar",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production", "project": "prod-project",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production",
 				},

 				{
 					"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "staging", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "staging", "values.aaa": "https://staging-01.example.com", "name": "staging-01", "nameNormalized": "staging-01", "server": "https://staging-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "staging", "metadata.labels.org": "foo",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging", "project": "",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging",
 				},
+
+				{"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "{{ metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io }}", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "{{ metadata.labels.environment }}", "values.aaa": "https://kubernetes.default.svc", "nameNormalized": "in-cluster", "name": "in-cluster", "server": "https://kubernetes.default.svc"},
 			},
 			clientError:   false,
 			expectedError: nil,
@@ -132,12 +131,12 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
 				{
 					"name": "production_01/west", "nameNormalized": "production-01-west", "server": "https://production-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "production", "metadata.labels.org": "bar",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production", "project": "prod-project",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production",
 				},

 				{
 					"name": "staging-01", "nameNormalized": "staging-01", "server": "https://staging-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "staging", "metadata.labels.org": "foo",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging", "project": "",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging",
 				},
 			},
 			clientError:   false,
@@ -156,7 +155,7 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
 				{
 					"values.foo": "bar", "name": "production_01/west", "nameNormalized": "production-01-west", "server": "https://production-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "production", "metadata.labels.org": "bar",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production", "project": "prod-project",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production",
 				},
 			},
 			clientError:   false,
@@ -182,11 +181,11 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
 				{
 					"values.foo": "bar", "name": "staging-01", "nameNormalized": "staging-01", "server": "https://staging-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "staging", "metadata.labels.org": "foo",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging", "project": "",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging",
 				},
 				{
 					"values.foo": "bar", "name": "production_01/west", "nameNormalized": "production-01-west", "server": "https://production-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "production", "metadata.labels.org": "bar",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production", "project": "prod-project",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production",
 				},
 			},
 			clientError:   false,
@@ -215,7 +214,7 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
 				{
 					"values.name": "baz", "name": "staging-01", "nameNormalized": "staging-01", "server": "https://staging-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "staging", "metadata.labels.org": "foo",
-					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging", "project": "",
+					"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging",
 				},
 			},
 			clientError:   false,
@@ -229,74 +228,6 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 			clientError:   true,
 			expectedError: fmt.Errorf("error getting cluster secrets: could not list Secrets"),
 		},
-		{
-			name:     "flat mode without selectors",
-			selector: metav1.LabelSelector{},
-			values: map[string]string{
-				"lol1":  "lol",
-				"lol2":  "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}",
-				"lol3":  "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}",
-				"foo":   "bar",
-				"bar":   "{{ metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io }}",
-				"bat":   "{{ metadata.labels.environment }}",
-				"aaa":   "{{ server }}",
-				"no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}",
-			},
-			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
-				{
-					"clusters": []map[string]interface{}{
-						{"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "{{ metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io }}", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "{{ metadata.labels.environment }}", "values.aaa": "https://kubernetes.default.svc", "nameNormalized": "in-cluster", "name": "in-cluster", "server": "https://kubernetes.default.svc", "project": ""},
-						{
-							"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "production", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "production", "values.aaa": "https://production-01.example.com", "name": "production_01/west", "nameNormalized": "production-01-west", "server": "https://production-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "production", "metadata.labels.org": "bar",
-							"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production", "project": "prod-project",
-						},
-
-						{
-							"values.lol1": "lol", "values.lol2": "{{values.lol1}}{{values.lol1}}", "values.lol3": "{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}{{values.lol2}}", "values.foo": "bar", "values.bar": "staging", "values.no-op": "{{ this-does-not-exist }}", "values.bat": "staging", "values.aaa": "https://staging-01.example.com", "name": "staging-01", "nameNormalized": "staging-01", "server": "https://staging-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "staging", "metadata.labels.org": "foo",
-							"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging", "project": "",
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			isFlatMode:    true,
-			clientError:   false,
-			expectedError: nil,
-		},
-		{
-			name: "production or staging with flat mode",
-			selector: metav1.LabelSelector{
-				MatchExpressions: []metav1.LabelSelectorRequirement{
-					{
-						Key:      "environment",
-						Operator: "In",
-						Values: []string{
-							"production",
-							"staging",
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			isFlatMode: true,
-			values: map[string]string{
-				"foo": "bar",
-			},
-			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
-				{
-					"clusters": []map[string]interface{}{
-						{
-							"values.foo": "bar", "name": "production_01/west", "nameNormalized": "production-01-west", "server": "https://production-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "production", "metadata.labels.org": "bar",
-							"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "production", "project": "prod-project",
-						},
-						{
-							"values.foo": "bar", "name": "staging-01", "nameNormalized": "staging-01", "server": "https://staging-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "staging", "metadata.labels.org": "foo",
-							"metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "metadata.annotations.foo.argoproj.io": "staging", "project": "",
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			clientError:   false,
-			expectedError: nil,
-		},
 	}

 	// convert []client.Object to []runtime.Object, for use by kubefake package
@@ -328,7 +259,6 @@ func TestGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 				Clusters: &argoprojiov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{
 					Selector: testCase.selector,
 					Values:   testCase.values,
-					FlatList: testCase.isFlatMode,
 				},
 			}, &applicationSetInfo, nil)

@@ -394,11 +324,10 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	}
 	testCases := []struct {
-		name       string
-		selector   metav1.LabelSelector
-		values     map[string]string
-		isFlatMode bool
-		expected   []map[string]interface{}
+		name     string
+		selector metav1.LabelSelector
+		values   map[string]string
+		expected []map[string]interface{}
 		// clientError is true if a k8s client error should be simulated
 		clientError   bool
 		expectedError error
@@ -420,7 +349,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "production_01/west",
 					"nameNormalized": "production-01-west",
 					"server":         "https://production-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -446,7 +374,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "staging-01",
 					"nameNormalized": "staging-01",
 					"server":         "https://staging-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -472,7 +399,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"nameNormalized": "in-cluster",
 					"name":           "in-cluster",
 					"server":         "https://kubernetes.default.svc",
-					"project":        "",
 					"values": map[string]string{
 						"lol1":  "lol",
 						"lol2":  "<no value><no value>",
@@ -501,7 +427,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "production_01/west",
 					"nameNormalized": "production-01-west",
 					"server":         "https://production-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -517,7 +442,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "staging-01",
 					"nameNormalized": "staging-01",
 					"server":         "https://staging-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -548,7 +472,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "production_01/west",
 					"nameNormalized": "production-01-west",
 					"server":         "https://production-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -589,7 +512,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "production_01/west",
 					"nameNormalized": "production-01-west",
 					"server":         "https://production-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -608,7 +530,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "staging-01",
 					"nameNormalized": "staging-01",
 					"server":         "https://staging-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -652,7 +573,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "staging-01",
 					"nameNormalized": "staging-01",
 					"server":         "https://staging-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
@@ -679,162 +599,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 			clientError:   true,
 			expectedError: fmt.Errorf("error getting cluster secrets: could not list Secrets"),
 		},
-		{
-			name:       "Clusters with flat list mode and no selector",
-			selector:   metav1.LabelSelector{},
-			isFlatMode: true,
-			values: map[string]string{
-				"lol1":  "lol",
-				"lol2":  "{{ .values.lol1 }}{{ .values.lol1 }}",
-				"lol3":  "{{ .values.lol2 }}{{ .values.lol2 }}{{ .values.lol2 }}",
-				"foo":   "bar",
-				"bar":   "{{ if not (empty .metadata) }}{{index .metadata.annotations \"foo.argoproj.io\" }}{{ end }}",
-				"bat":   "{{ if not (empty .metadata) }}{{.metadata.labels.environment}}{{ end }}",
-				"aaa":   "{{ .server }}",
-				"no-op": "{{ .thisDoesNotExist }}",
-			},
-			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
-				{
-					"clusters": []map[string]interface{}{
-						{
-							"nameNormalized": "in-cluster",
-							"name":           "in-cluster",
-							"server":         "https://kubernetes.default.svc",
-							"project":        "",
-							"values": map[string]string{
-								"lol1":  "lol",
-								"lol2":  "<no value><no value>",
-								"lol3":  "<no value><no value><no value>",
-								"foo":   "bar",
-								"bar":   "",
-								"bat":   "",
-								"aaa":   "https://kubernetes.default.svc",
-								"no-op": "<no value>",
-							},
-						},
-						{
-							"name":           "production_01/west",
-							"nameNormalized": "production-01-west",
-							"server":         "https://production-01.example.com",
-							"project":        "",
-							"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-								"labels": map[string]string{
-									"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
-									"environment":                    "production",
-									"org":                            "bar",
-								},
-								"annotations": map[string]string{
-									"foo.argoproj.io": "production",
-								},
-							},
-							"values": map[string]string{
-								"lol1":  "lol",
-								"lol2":  "<no value><no value>",
-								"lol3":  "<no value><no value><no value>",
-								"foo":   "bar",
-								"bar":   "production",
-								"bat":   "production",
-								"aaa":   "https://production-01.example.com",
-								"no-op": "<no value>",
-							},
-						},
-						{
-							"name":           "staging-01",
-							"nameNormalized": "staging-01",
-							"server":         "https://staging-01.example.com",
-							"project":        "",
-							"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-								"labels": map[string]string{
-									"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
-									"environment":                    "staging",
-									"org":                            "foo",
-								},
-								"annotations": map[string]string{
-									"foo.argoproj.io": "staging",
-								},
-							},
-							"values": map[string]string{
-								"lol1":  "lol",
-								"lol2":  "<no value><no value>",
-								"lol3":  "<no value><no value><no value>",
-								"foo":   "bar",
-								"bar":   "staging",
-								"bat":   "staging",
-								"aaa":   "https://staging-01.example.com",
-								"no-op": "<no value>",
-							},
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			clientError:   false,
-			expectedError: nil,
-		},
-		{
-			name: "production or staging with flat mode",
-			selector: metav1.LabelSelector{
-				MatchExpressions: []metav1.LabelSelectorRequirement{
-					{
-						Key:      "environment",
-						Operator: "In",
-						Values: []string{
-							"production",
-							"staging",
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			isFlatMode: true,
-			values: map[string]string{
-				"foo": "bar",
-			},
-			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
-				{
-					"clusters": []map[string]interface{}{
-						{
-							"name":           "production_01/west",
-							"nameNormalized": "production-01-west",
-							"server":         "https://production-01.example.com",
-							"project":        "",
-							"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-								"labels": map[string]string{
-									"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
-									"environment":                    "production",
-									"org":                            "bar",
-								},
-								"annotations": map[string]string{
-									"foo.argoproj.io": "production",
-								},
-							},
-							"values": map[string]string{
-								"foo": "bar",
-							},
-						},
-						{
-							"name":           "staging-01",
-							"nameNormalized": "staging-01",
-							"server":         "https://staging-01.example.com",
-							"project":        "",
-							"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-								"labels": map[string]string{
-									"argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster",
-									"environment":                    "staging",
-									"org":                            "foo",
-								},
-								"annotations": map[string]string{
-									"foo.argoproj.io": "staging",
-								},
-							},
-							"values": map[string]string{
-								"foo": "bar",
-							},
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			clientError:   false,
-			expectedError: nil,
-		},
 	}

 	// convert []client.Object to []runtime.Object, for use by kubefake package
@@ -868,7 +632,6 @@ func TestGenerateParamsGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 				Clusters: &argoprojiov1alpha1.ClusterGenerator{
 					Selector: testCase.selector,
 					Values:   testCase.values,
-					FlatList: testCase.isFlatMode,
 				},
 			}, &applicationSetInfo, nil)

--- a/applicationset/generators/duck_type.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/duck_type.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func (g *DuckTypeGenerator) GetRequeueAfter(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha1.
 		return time.Duration(*appSetGenerator.ClusterDecisionResource.RequeueAfterSeconds) * time.Second
 	}

-	return getDefaultRequeueAfter()
+	return DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds
 }

 func (g *DuckTypeGenerator) GetTemplate(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator) *argoprojiov1alpha1.ApplicationSetTemplate {
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ func (g *DuckTypeGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha1.A
 			res = append(res, params)
 		}
 	} else {
-		log.Warningf("clusterDecisionResource status.%s missing", statusListKey)
+		log.Warningf("clusterDecisionResource status." + statusListKey + " missing")
 		return nil, nil
 	}

--- a/applicationset/generators/generator_spec_processor_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/generator_spec_processor_test.go
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ func TestTransForm(t *testing.T) {
 				"name":                                           "production_01/west",
 				"nameNormalized":                                 "production-01-west",
 				"server":                                         "https://production-01.example.com",
-				"project":                                        "",
 			}},
 		},
 		{
@@ -215,7 +214,6 @@ func TestTransForm(t *testing.T) {
 				"name":                                           "some-really-long-server-url",
 				"nameNormalized":                                 "some-really-long-server-url",
 				"server":                                         "https://some-really-long-url-that-will-exceed-63-characters.com",
-				"project":                                        "",
 			}},
 		},
 	}
--- a/applicationset/generators/git.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/git.go
@@ -28,11 +28,10 @@ type GitGenerator struct {
 	namespace string
 }

-// NewGitGenerator creates a new instance of Git Generator
-func NewGitGenerator(repos services.Repos, controllerNamespace string) Generator {
+func NewGitGenerator(repos services.Repos, namespace string) Generator {
 	g := &GitGenerator{
 		repos:     repos,
-		namespace: controllerNamespace,
+		namespace: namespace,
 	}

 	return g
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ func (g *GitGenerator) GetRequeueAfter(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha1.Appli
 		return time.Duration(*appSetGenerator.Git.RequeueAfterSeconds) * time.Second
 	}

-	return getDefaultRequeueAfter()
+	return DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds
 }

 func (g *GitGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha1.ApplicationSetGenerator, appSet *argoprojiov1alpha1.ApplicationSet, client client.Client) ([]map[string]interface{}, error) {
@@ -71,15 +70,15 @@ func (g *GitGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha1.Applic
 	if !strings.Contains(appSet.Spec.Template.Spec.Project, "{{") {
 		project := appSet.Spec.Template.Spec.Project
 		appProject := &argoprojiov1alpha1.AppProject{}
-		controllerNamespace := g.namespace
-		if controllerNamespace == "" {
-			controllerNamespace = appSet.Namespace
+		namespace := g.namespace
+		if namespace == "" {
+			namespace = appSet.Namespace
 		}
-		if err := client.Get(context.TODO(), types.NamespacedName{Name: project, Namespace: controllerNamespace}, appProject); err != nil {
+		if err := client.Get(context.TODO(), types.NamespacedName{Name: project, Namespace: namespace}, appProject); err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting project %s: %w", project, err)
 		}
 		// we need to verify the signature on the Git revision if GPG is enabled
-		verifyCommit = len(appProject.Spec.SignatureKeys) > 0 && gpg.IsGPGEnabled()
+		verifyCommit = appProject.Spec.SignatureKeys != nil && len(appProject.Spec.SignatureKeys) > 0 && gpg.IsGPGEnabled()
 	}

 	var err error
--- a/applicationset/generators/interface.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/interface.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"

 	argoprojiov1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/env"
 )

 // Generator defines the interface implemented by all ApplicationSet generators.
@@ -31,11 +30,7 @@ var (
 	NoRequeueAfter            time.Duration
 )

+// DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds is used when GetRequeueAfter is not specified, it is the default time to wait before the next reconcile loop
 const (
 	DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds = 3 * time.Minute
 )
-
-func getDefaultRequeueAfter() time.Duration {
-	// Default is 3 minutes, min is 1 second, max is 1 year
-	return env.ParseDurationFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_REQUEUE_AFTER", DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds, 1*time.Second, 8760*time.Hour)
-}
--- a/applicationset/generators/interface_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/interface_test.go
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-package generators
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-func Test_getDefaultRequeueAfter(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name            string
-		requeueAfterEnv string
-		want            time.Duration
-	}{
-		{name: "Default", requeueAfterEnv: "", want: DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds},
-		{name: "Min", requeueAfterEnv: "1s", want: 1 * time.Second},
-		{name: "Max", requeueAfterEnv: "8760h", want: 8760 * time.Hour},
-		{name: "Override", requeueAfterEnv: "10m", want: 10 * time.Minute},
-		{name: "LessThanMin", requeueAfterEnv: "1ms", want: DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds},
-		{name: "MoreThanMax", requeueAfterEnv: "8761h", want: DefaultRequeueAfterSeconds},
-	}
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Setenv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_REQUEUE_AFTER", tt.requeueAfterEnv)
-			assert.Equalf(t, tt.want, getDefaultRequeueAfter(), "getDefaultRequeueAfter()")
-		})
-	}
-}
--- a/applicationset/generators/matrix_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/matrix_test.go
@@ -578,8 +578,8 @@ func TestInterpolatedMatrixGenerate(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
-				{"path": "examples/git-generator-files-discovery/cluster-config/dev/config.json", "path.basename": "dev", "path.basenameNormalized": "dev", "name": "dev-01", "nameNormalized": "dev-01", "server": "https://dev-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "dev", "metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "project": ""},
-				{"path": "examples/git-generator-files-discovery/cluster-config/prod/config.json", "path.basename": "prod", "path.basenameNormalized": "prod", "name": "prod-01", "nameNormalized": "prod-01", "server": "https://prod-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "prod", "metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster", "project": ""},
+				{"path": "examples/git-generator-files-discovery/cluster-config/dev/config.json", "path.basename": "dev", "path.basenameNormalized": "dev", "name": "dev-01", "nameNormalized": "dev-01", "server": "https://dev-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "dev", "metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster"},
+				{"path": "examples/git-generator-files-discovery/cluster-config/prod/config.json", "path.basename": "prod", "path.basenameNormalized": "prod", "name": "prod-01", "nameNormalized": "prod-01", "server": "https://prod-01.example.com", "metadata.labels.environment": "prod", "metadata.labels.argocd.argoproj.io/secret-type": "cluster"},
 			},
 			clientError: false,
 		},
@@ -734,7 +734,6 @@ func TestInterpolatedMatrixGenerateGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "dev-01",
 					"nameNormalized": "dev-01",
 					"server":         "https://dev-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"environment":                    "dev",
@@ -751,7 +750,6 @@ func TestInterpolatedMatrixGenerateGoTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 					"name":           "prod-01",
 					"nameNormalized": "prod-01",
 					"server":         "https://prod-01.example.com",
-					"project":        "",
 					"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
 						"labels": map[string]string{
 							"environment":                    "prod",
--- a/applicationset/generators/merge_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/merge_test.go
@@ -197,7 +197,6 @@ func TestMergeGenerate(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func toAPIExtensionsJSON(t *testing.T, g interface{}) *apiextensionsv1.JSON {
-	t.Helper()
 	resVal, err := json.Marshal(g)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Error("unable to unmarshal json", g)
--- a/applicationset/generators/mocks/Generator.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/mocks/Generator.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Code generated by mockery v2.53.4. DO NOT EDIT.
+// Code generated by mockery v2.43.2. DO NOT EDIT.

 package mocks

--- a/applicationset/generators/plugin_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/plugin_test.go
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ func TestPluginGenerateParams(t *testing.T) {
 				require.NoError(t, err)
 				gotJson, err := json.Marshal(got)
 				require.NoError(t, err)
-				assert.JSONEq(t, string(expectedJson), string(gotJson))
+				assert.Equal(t, string(expectedJson), string(gotJson))
 			}
 		})
 	}
--- a/applicationset/generators/pull_request.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/pull_request.go
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func (g *PullRequestGenerator) selectServiceProvider(ctx context.Context, genera
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching CA certificates from ConfigMap: %w", prErr)
 			}
 		}
-		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ func (g *PullRequestGenerator) selectServiceProvider(ctx context.Context, genera
 	}
 	if generatorConfig.Gitea != nil {
 		providerConfig := generatorConfig.Gitea
-		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -164,13 +164,13 @@ func (g *PullRequestGenerator) selectServiceProvider(ctx context.Context, genera
 			}
 		}
 		if providerConfig.BearerToken != nil {
-			appToken, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BearerToken.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+			appToken, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BearerToken.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret Bearer token: %w", err)
 			}
-			return pullrequest.NewBitbucketServiceBearerToken(ctx, appToken, providerConfig.API, providerConfig.Project, providerConfig.Repo, g.scmRootCAPath, providerConfig.Insecure, caCerts)
+			return pullrequest.NewBitbucketServiceBearerToken(ctx, providerConfig.API, appToken, providerConfig.Project, providerConfig.Repo, g.scmRootCAPath, providerConfig.Insecure, caCerts)
 		} else if providerConfig.BasicAuth != nil {
-			password, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BasicAuth.PasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+			password, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BasicAuth.PasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 			}
@@ -182,13 +182,13 @@ func (g *PullRequestGenerator) selectServiceProvider(ctx context.Context, genera
 	if generatorConfig.Bitbucket != nil {
 		providerConfig := generatorConfig.Bitbucket
 		if providerConfig.BearerToken != nil {
-			appToken, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BearerToken.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+			appToken, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BearerToken.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret Bearer token: %w", err)
 			}
 			return pullrequest.NewBitbucketCloudServiceBearerToken(providerConfig.API, appToken, providerConfig.Owner, providerConfig.Repo)
 		} else if providerConfig.BasicAuth != nil {
-			password, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BasicAuth.PasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+			password, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BasicAuth.PasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 			}
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ func (g *PullRequestGenerator) selectServiceProvider(ctx context.Context, genera
 	}
 	if generatorConfig.AzureDevOps != nil {
 		providerConfig := generatorConfig.AzureDevOps
-		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ func (g *PullRequestGenerator) github(ctx context.Context, cfg *argoprojiov1alph
 	}

 	// always default to token, even if not set (public access)
-	token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, cfg.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+	token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, cfg.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 	}
--- a/applicationset/generators/pull_request_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/pull_request_test.go
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ func TestAllowedSCMProviderPullRequest(t *testing.T) {
 				"gitea.myorg.com",
 				"bitbucket.myorg.com",
 				"azuredevops.myorg.com",
-			}, true, nil, true))
+			}, true, nil))

 			applicationSetInfo := argoprojiov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
 				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ func TestAllowedSCMProviderPullRequest(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestSCMProviderDisabled_PRGenerator(t *testing.T) {
-	generator := NewPullRequestGenerator(nil, NewSCMConfig("", []string{}, false, nil, true))
+	generator := NewPullRequestGenerator(nil, NewSCMConfig("", []string{}, false, nil))

 	applicationSetInfo := argoprojiov1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
--- a/applicationset/generators/scm_provider.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/scm_provider.go
@@ -35,16 +35,14 @@ type SCMConfig struct {
 	allowedSCMProviders []string
 	enableSCMProviders  bool
 	GitHubApps          github_app_auth.Credentials
-	tokenRefStrictMode  bool
 }

-func NewSCMConfig(scmRootCAPath string, allowedSCMProviders []string, enableSCMProviders bool, gitHubApps github_app_auth.Credentials, tokenRefStrictMode bool) SCMConfig {
+func NewSCMConfig(scmRootCAPath string, allowedSCMProviders []string, enableSCMProviders bool, gitHubApps github_app_auth.Credentials) SCMConfig {
 	return SCMConfig{
 		scmRootCAPath:       scmRootCAPath,
 		allowedSCMProviders: allowedSCMProviders,
 		enableSCMProviders:  enableSCMProviders,
 		GitHubApps:          gitHubApps,
-		tokenRefStrictMode:  tokenRefStrictMode,
 	}
 }

@@ -156,7 +154,7 @@ func (g *SCMProviderGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching CA certificates from ConfigMap: %w", scmError)
 			}
 		}
-		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Gitlab token: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -165,7 +163,7 @@ func (g *SCMProviderGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error initializing Gitlab service: %w", err)
 		}
 	} else if providerConfig.Gitea != nil {
-		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.Gitea.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.Gitea.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Gitea token: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -184,13 +182,13 @@ func (g *SCMProviderGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha
 			}
 		}
 		if providerConfig.BearerToken != nil {
-			appToken, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BearerToken.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+			appToken, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BearerToken.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret Bearer token: %w", err)
 			}
 			provider, scmError = scm_provider.NewBitbucketServerProviderBearerToken(ctx, appToken, providerConfig.API, providerConfig.Project, providerConfig.AllBranches, g.scmRootCAPath, providerConfig.Insecure, caCerts)
 		} else if providerConfig.BasicAuth != nil {
-			password, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BasicAuth.PasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+			password, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.BasicAuth.PasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Secret token: %w", err)
 			}
@@ -202,7 +200,7 @@ func (g *SCMProviderGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error initializing Bitbucket Server service: %w", scmError)
 		}
 	} else if providerConfig.AzureDevOps != nil {
-		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.AzureDevOps.AccessTokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.AzureDevOps.AccessTokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Azure Devops access token: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -211,7 +209,7 @@ func (g *SCMProviderGenerator) GenerateParams(appSetGenerator *argoprojiov1alpha
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error initializing Azure Devops service: %w", err)
 		}
 	} else if providerConfig.Bitbucket != nil {
-		appPassword, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.Bitbucket.AppPasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+		appPassword, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, providerConfig.Bitbucket.AppPasswordRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Bitbucket cloud appPassword: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -285,7 +283,7 @@ func (g *SCMProviderGenerator) githubProvider(ctx context.Context, github *argop
 		)
 	}

-	token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, github.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace, g.tokenRefStrictMode)
+	token, err := utils.GetSecretRef(ctx, g.client, github.TokenRef, applicationSetInfo.Namespace)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error fetching Github token: %w", err)
 	}
--- a/applicationset/generators/utils.go
+++ b/applicationset/generators/utils.go
@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/services"
 )

-func GetGenerators(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, k8sClient kubernetes.Interface, controllerNamespace string, argoCDService services.Repos, dynamicClient dynamic.Interface, scmConfig SCMConfig) map[string]Generator {
+func GetGenerators(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, k8sClient kubernetes.Interface, namespace string, argoCDService services.Repos, dynamicClient dynamic.Interface, scmConfig SCMConfig) map[string]Generator {
 	terminalGenerators := map[string]Generator{
 		"List":                    NewListGenerator(),
-		"Clusters":                NewClusterGenerator(c, ctx, k8sClient, controllerNamespace),
-		"Git":                     NewGitGenerator(argoCDService, controllerNamespace),
+		"Clusters":                NewClusterGenerator(c, ctx, k8sClient, namespace),
+		"Git":                     NewGitGenerator(argoCDService, namespace),
 		"SCMProvider":             NewSCMProviderGenerator(c, scmConfig),
-		"ClusterDecisionResource": NewDuckTypeGenerator(ctx, dynamicClient, k8sClient, controllerNamespace),
+		"ClusterDecisionResource": NewDuckTypeGenerator(ctx, dynamicClient, k8sClient, namespace),
 		"PullRequest":             NewPullRequestGenerator(c, scmConfig),
-		"Plugin":                  NewPluginGenerator(c, ctx, k8sClient, controllerNamespace),
+		"Plugin":                  NewPluginGenerator(c, ctx, k8sClient, namespace),
 	}

 	nestedGenerators := map[string]Generator{
--- a/applicationset/metrics/metrics_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/metrics/metrics_test.go
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ func TestApplicationsetCollector(t *testing.T) {
 	appsetCollector := newAppsetCollector(utils.NewAppsetLister(client), collectedLabels, filter)

 	metrics.Registry.MustRegister(appsetCollector)
-	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/metrics", nil)
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/metrics", nil)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	handler := promhttp.HandlerFor(metrics.Registry, promhttp.HandlerOpts{})
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ func TestObserveReconcile(t *testing.T) {

 	appsetMetrics := NewApplicationsetMetrics(utils.NewAppsetLister(client), collectedLabels, filter)

-	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/metrics", nil)
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/metrics", nil)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	handler := promhttp.HandlerFor(metrics.Registry, promhttp.HandlerOpts{})
--- a/applicationset/services/internal/github_app/client.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/internal/github_app/client.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"

 	"github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation/v2"
-	"github.com/google/go-github/v66/github"
+	"github.com/google/go-github/v63/github"

 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/services/github_app_auth"
 )
--- a/applicationset/services/internal/http/client.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/internal/http/client.go
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ func (c *Client) Do(ctx context.Context, req *http.Request, v interface{}) (*htt

 // CheckResponse checks the API response for errors, and returns them if present.
 func CheckResponse(resp *http.Response) error {
-	if c := resp.StatusCode; http.StatusOK <= c && c < http.StatusMultipleChoices {
+	if c := resp.StatusCode; 200 <= c && c <= 299 {
 		return nil
 	}

--- a/applicationset/services/internal/http/client_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/internal/http/client_test.go
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )

 func TestClient(t *testing.T) {
@@ -25,7 +24,9 @@ func TestClient(t *testing.T) {

 	var clientOptionFns []ClientOptionFunc
 	_, err := NewClient(server.URL, clientOptionFns...)
-	require.NoError(t, err, "Failed to create client")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to create client: %v", err)
+	}
 }

 func TestClientDo(t *testing.T) {
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ func TestClientDo(t *testing.T) {
 					"key3": float64(123),
 				},
 			},
-			expectedCode:  http.StatusOK,
+			expectedCode:  200,
 			expectedError: nil,
 		},
 		{
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ func TestClientDo(t *testing.T) {
 			})),
 			clientOptionFns: nil,
 			expected:        []map[string]interface{}(nil),
-			expectedCode:    http.StatusUnauthorized,
+			expectedCode:    401,
 			expectedError:   fmt.Errorf("API error with status code 401: "),
 		},
 	} {
@@ -117,10 +118,14 @@ func TestClientDo(t *testing.T) {
 			defer cc.fakeServer.Close()

 			client, err := NewClient(cc.fakeServer.URL, cc.clientOptionFns...)
-			require.NoError(t, err, "NewClient returned unexpected error")
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("NewClient returned unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}

 			req, err := client.NewRequest("POST", "", cc.params, nil)
-			require.NoError(t, err, "NewRequest returned unexpected error")
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("NewRequest returned unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}

 			var data []map[string]interface{}

@@ -144,5 +149,12 @@ func TestCheckResponse(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	err := CheckResponse(resp)
-	require.EqualError(t, err, "API error with status code 400: invalid_request")
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Error("Expected an error, got nil")
+	}
+
+	expected := "API error with status code 400: invalid_request"
+	if err.Error() != expected {
+		t.Errorf("Expected error '%s', got '%s'", expected, err.Error())
+	}
 }
--- a/applicationset/services/mocks/Repos.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/mocks/Repos.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Code generated by mockery v2.53.4. DO NOT EDIT.
+// Code generated by mockery v2.43.2. DO NOT EDIT.

 package mocks

--- a/applicationset/services/plugin/plugin_service_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/plugin/plugin_service_test.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )

 func TestPlugin(t *testing.T) {
@@ -32,13 +31,19 @@ func TestPlugin(t *testing.T) {
 	defer ts.Close()

 	client, err := NewPluginService(context.Background(), "plugin-test", ts.URL, token, 0)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}

 	data, err := client.List(context.Background(), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}

 	var expectedData ServiceResponse
 	err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(expectedJSON), &expectedData)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	assert.Equal(t, &expectedData, data)
 }
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/azure_devops.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/azure_devops.go
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ func (a *AzureDevOpsService) List(ctx context.Context) ([]*PullRequest, error) {
 			pr.Repository.Name == nil ||
 			pr.PullRequestId == nil ||
 			pr.SourceRefName == nil ||
-			pr.TargetRefName == nil ||
 			pr.LastMergeSourceCommit == nil ||
 			pr.LastMergeSourceCommit.CommitId == nil {
 			continue
@@ -95,13 +94,12 @@ func (a *AzureDevOpsService) List(ctx context.Context) ([]*PullRequest, error) {

 		if *pr.Repository.Name == a.repo {
 			pullRequests = append(pullRequests, &PullRequest{
-				Number:       *pr.PullRequestId,
-				Title:        *pr.Title,
-				Branch:       strings.Replace(*pr.SourceRefName, "refs/heads/", "", 1),
-				TargetBranch: strings.Replace(*pr.TargetRefName, "refs/heads/", "", 1),
-				HeadSHA:      *pr.LastMergeSourceCommit.CommitId,
-				Labels:       azureDevOpsLabels,
-				Author:       strings.Split(*pr.CreatedBy.UniqueName, "@")[0], // Get the part before the @ in the email-address
+				Number:  *pr.PullRequestId,
+				Title:   *pr.Title,
+				Branch:  strings.Replace(*pr.SourceRefName, "refs/heads/", "", 1),
+				HeadSHA: *pr.LastMergeSourceCommit.CommitId,
+				Labels:  azureDevOpsLabels,
+				Author:  strings.Split(*pr.CreatedBy.UniqueName, "@")[0], // Get the part before the @ in the email-address
 			})
 		}
 	}
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/azure_devops_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/azure_devops_test.go
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ func TestListPullRequest(t *testing.T) {
 			PullRequestId: createIntPtr(pr_id),
 			Title:         createStringPtr(pr_title),
 			SourceRefName: createStringPtr("refs/heads/feature-branch"),
-			TargetRefName: createStringPtr("refs/heads/main"),
 			LastMergeSourceCommit: &git.GitCommitRef{
 				CommitId: createStringPtr(pr_head_sha),
 			},
@@ -107,7 +106,6 @@ func TestListPullRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Len(t, list, 1)
 	assert.Equal(t, "feature-branch", list[0].Branch)
-	assert.Equal(t, "main", list[0].TargetBranch)
 	assert.Equal(t, pr_head_sha, list[0].HeadSHA)
 	assert.Equal(t, "feat(123)", list[0].Title)
 	assert.Equal(t, pr_id, list[0].Number)
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/bitbucket_cloud.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/bitbucket_cloud.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type BitbucketCloudPullRequest struct {
 	ID     int                             `json:"id"`
 	Title  string                          `json:"title"`
 	Source BitbucketCloudPullRequestSource `json:"source"`
-	Author BitbucketCloudPullRequestAuthor `json:"author"`
+	Author string                          `json:"author"`
 }

 type BitbucketCloudPullRequestSource struct {
@@ -35,11 +35,6 @@ type BitbucketCloudPullRequestSourceCommit struct {
 	Hash string `json:"hash"`
 }

-// Also have display_name and uuid, but don't plan to use them.
-type BitbucketCloudPullRequestAuthor struct {
-	Nickname string `json:"nickname"`
-}
-
 type PullRequestResponse struct {
 	Page     int32         `json:"page"`
 	Size     int32         `json:"size"`
@@ -139,7 +134,7 @@ func (b *BitbucketCloudService) List(_ context.Context) ([]*PullRequest, error)
 			Title:   pull.Title,
 			Branch:  pull.Source.Branch.Name,
 			HeadSHA: pull.Source.Commit.Hash,
-			Author:  pull.Author.Nickname,
+			Author:  pull.Author,
 		})
 	}

--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/bitbucket_cloud_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/bitbucket_cloud_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 )

 func defaultHandlerCloud(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		var err error
@@ -38,9 +37,7 @@ func defaultHandlerCloud(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)
 									"hash": "1a8dd249c04a"
 								}
 							},
-							"author": {
-								"nickname": "testName"
-							}
+							"author": "testName"
 						}
 					]
 				}`)
@@ -157,9 +154,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestPaginationCloud(t *testing.T) {
 								"hash": "1a8dd249c04a"
 							}
 						},
-						"author": {
-							"nickname": "testName"
-						}
+						"author": "testName"
 					},
 					{
 						"id": 102,
@@ -173,9 +168,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestPaginationCloud(t *testing.T) {
 								"hash": "4cf807e67a6d"
 							}
 						},
-						"author": {
-							"nickname": "testName"
-						}
+                        "author": "testName"
 					}
 				]
 			}`, r.Host))
@@ -198,9 +191,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestPaginationCloud(t *testing.T) {
 								"hash": "6344d9623e3b"
 							}
 						},
-						"author": {
-							"nickname": "testName"
-						}
+						"author": "testName"
 					}
 				]
 			}`, r.Host))
@@ -242,7 +233,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestPaginationCloud(t *testing.T) {

 func TestListResponseErrorCloud(t *testing.T) {
 	ts := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusInternalServerError)
+		w.WriteHeader(500)
 	}))
 	defer ts.Close()
 	svc, _ := NewBitbucketCloudServiceNoAuth(ts.URL, "OWNER", "REPO")
@@ -348,9 +339,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestBranchMatchCloud(t *testing.T) {
 								"hash": "1a8dd249c04a"
 							}
 						},
-						"author": {
-							"nickname": "testName"
-						}
+						"author": "testName"
 					},
 					{
 						"id": 200,
@@ -364,9 +353,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestBranchMatchCloud(t *testing.T) {
 								"hash": "4cf807e67a6d"
 							}
 						},
-						"author": {
-							"nickname": "testName"
-						}
+						"author": "testName"
 					}
 				]
 			}`, r.Host))
@@ -389,9 +376,7 @@ func TestListPullRequestBranchMatchCloud(t *testing.T) {
 								"hash": "6344d9623e3b"
 							}
 						},
-						"author": {
-							"nickname": "testName"
-						}
+						"author": "testName"
 					}
 				]
 			}`, r.Host))
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/bitbucket_server_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/bitbucket_server_test.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import (
 )

 func defaultHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		var err error
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/gitea_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/gitea_test.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 )

 func giteaMockHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		fmt.Println(r.RequestURI)
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/github.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/github.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"

-	"github.com/google/go-github/v66/github"
+	"github.com/google/go-github/v63/github"
 	"golang.org/x/oauth2"
 )

--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/github_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/github_test.go
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package pull_request
 import (
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/google/go-github/v66/github"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"github.com/google/go-github/v63/github"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )

 func toPtr(s string) *string {
@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ func TestContainLabels(t *testing.T) {

 	for _, c := range cases {
 		t.Run(c.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			got := containLabels(c.Labels, c.PullLabels)
-			require.Equal(t, got, c.Expect)
+			if got := containLabels(c.Labels, c.PullLabels); got != c.Expect {
+				t.Errorf("expect: %v, got: %v", c.Expect, got)
+			}
 		})
 	}
 }
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ func TestGetGitHubPRLabelNames(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, test := range Tests {
 		t.Run(test.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			labels := getGithubPRLabelNames(test.PullLabels)
-			require.Equal(t, test.ExpectedResult, labels)
+			assert.Equal(t, test.ExpectedResult, labels)
 		})
 	}
 }
--- a/applicationset/services/pull_request/gitlab_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/pull_request/gitlab_test.go
@@ -15,12 +15,14 @@ import (
 )

 func writeMRListResponse(t *testing.T, w io.Writer) {
-	t.Helper()
 	f, err := os.Open("fixtures/gitlab_mr_list_response.json")
-	require.NoErrorf(t, err, "error opening fixture file: %v", err)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("error opening fixture file: %v", err)
+	}

-	_, err = io.Copy(w, f)
-	require.NoErrorf(t, err, "error writing response: %v", err)
+	if _, err = io.Copy(w, f); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("error writing response: %v", err)
+	}
 }

 func TestGitLabServiceCustomBaseURL(t *testing.T) {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/aws_codecommit/mocks/AWSCodeCommitClient.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/aws_codecommit/mocks/AWSCodeCommitClient.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Code generated by mockery v2.53.4. DO NOT EDIT.
+// Code generated by mockery v2.43.2. DO NOT EDIT.

 package mocks

--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/aws_codecommit/mocks/AWSTaggingClient.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/aws_codecommit/mocks/AWSTaggingClient.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Code generated by mockery v2.53.4. DO NOT EDIT.
+// Code generated by mockery v2.43.2. DO NOT EDIT.

 package mocks

--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/azure_devops/git/mocks/Client.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/azure_devops/git/mocks/Client.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Code generated by mockery v2.53.4. DO NOT EDIT.
+// Code generated by mockery v2.43.2. DO NOT EDIT.

 package mocks

--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/bitbucket_cloud.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/bitbucket_cloud.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ func (c *ExtendedClient) GetContents(repo *Repository, path string) (bool, error
 		return true, nil
 	}

-	return false, fmt.Errorf("%s", resp.Status)
+	return false, fmt.Errorf(resp.Status)
 }

 var _ SCMProviderService = &BitBucketCloudProvider{}
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/bitbucket_server.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/bitbucket_server.go
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func (b *BitbucketServerProvider) RepoHasPath(_ context.Context, repo *Repositor
 	}
 	// No need to query for all pages here
 	response, err := b.client.DefaultApi.GetContent_0(repo.Organization, repo.Repository, path, opts)
-	if response != nil && response.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
+	if response != nil && response.StatusCode == 404 {
 		// File/directory not found
 		return false, nil
 	}
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ func (b *BitbucketServerProvider) getDefaultBranch(org string, repo string) (*bi
 	response, err := b.client.DefaultApi.GetDefaultBranch(org, repo)
 	// The API will return 404 if a default branch is set but doesn't exist. In case the repo is empty and default branch is unset,
 	// we will get an EOF and a nil response.
-	if (response != nil && response.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound) || (response == nil && err != nil && errors.Is(err, io.EOF)) {
+	if (response != nil && response.StatusCode == 404) || (response == nil && err != nil && errors.Is(err, io.EOF)) {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 	if err != nil {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/bitbucket_server_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/bitbucket_server_test.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 )

 func defaultHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		var err error
@@ -83,7 +82,6 @@ func defaultHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
 }

 func verifyDefaultRepo(t *testing.T, err error, repos []*Repository) {
-	t.Helper()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Len(t, repos, 1)
 	assert.Equal(t, Repository{
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitea.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitea.go
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func (g *GiteaProvider) ListRepos(ctx context.Context, cloneProtocol string) ([]

 func (g *GiteaProvider) RepoHasPath(ctx context.Context, repo *Repository, path string) (bool, error) {
 	_, resp, err := g.client.GetContents(repo.Organization, repo.Repository, repo.Branch, path)
-	if resp != nil && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
+	if resp != nil && resp.StatusCode == 404 {
 		return false, nil
 	}
 	if fmt.Sprint(err) == "expect file, got directory" {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitea_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitea_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 )

 func giteaMockHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		switch r.RequestURI {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/github.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/github.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"

-	"github.com/google/go-github/v66/github"
+	"github.com/google/go-github/v63/github"
 	"golang.org/x/oauth2"
 )

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ func (g *GithubProvider) RepoHasPath(ctx context.Context, repo *Repository, path
 		Ref: repo.Branch,
 	})
 	// 404s are not an error here, just a normal false.
-	if resp != nil && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
+	if resp != nil && resp.StatusCode == 404 {
 		return false, nil
 	}
 	if err != nil {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/github_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/github_test.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 )

 func githubMockHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		switch r.RequestURI {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitlab.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitlab.go
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ package scm_provider

 import (
 	"context"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
+	pathpkg "path"

 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp"
 	"github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab"
@@ -129,31 +129,40 @@ func (g *GitlabProvider) ListRepos(ctx context.Context, cloneProtocol string) ([
 func (g *GitlabProvider) RepoHasPath(_ context.Context, repo *Repository, path string) (bool, error) {
 	p, _, err := g.client.Projects.GetProject(repo.Organization+"/"+repo.Repository, nil)
 	if err != nil {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("error getting Project Info: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	// search if the path is a file and exists in the repo
-	fileOptions := gitlab.GetFileOptions{Ref: &repo.Branch}
-	_, _, err = g.client.RepositoryFiles.GetFile(p.ID, path, &fileOptions)
-	if err != nil {
-		if errors.Is(err, gitlab.ErrNotFound) {
-			// no file found, check for a directory
-			options := gitlab.ListTreeOptions{
-				Path: &path,
-				Ref:  &repo.Branch,
-			}
-			_, _, err := g.client.Repositories.ListTree(p.ID, &options)
-			if err != nil {
-				if errors.Is(err, gitlab.ErrNotFound) {
-					return false, nil // no file or directory found
-				}
-				return false, err
-			}
-			return true, nil // directory found
-		}
 		return false, err
 	}
-	return true, nil // file found
+	directories := []string{
+		path,
+		pathpkg.Dir(path),
+	}
+	for _, directory := range directories {
+		options := gitlab.ListTreeOptions{
+			Path: &directory,
+			Ref:  &repo.Branch,
+		}
+		for {
+			treeNode, resp, err := g.client.Repositories.ListTree(p.ID, &options)
+			if err != nil {
+				return false, err
+			}
+			if path == directory {
+				if resp.TotalItems > 0 {
+					return true, nil
+				}
+			}
+			for i := range treeNode {
+				if treeNode[i].Path == path {
+					return true, nil
+				}
+			}
+			if resp.NextPage == 0 {
+				// no future pages
+				break
+			}
+			options.Page = resp.NextPage
+		}
+	}
+	return false, nil
 }

 func (g *GitlabProvider) listBranches(_ context.Context, repo *Repository) ([]gitlab.Branch, error) {
--- a/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitlab_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/services/scm_provider/gitlab_test.go
@@ -17,10 +17,8 @@ import (
 )

 func gitlabMockHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
-	t.Helper()
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-		fmt.Println(r.RequestURI)
 		switch r.RequestURI {
 		case "/api/v4":
 			fmt.Println("here1")
@@ -1041,32 +1039,6 @@ func gitlabMockHandler(t *testing.T) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fail()
 			}
-			// Recent versions of the Gitlab API (v17.7+) listTree return 404 not only when a file doesn't exist, but also
-			// when a path is to a file instead of a directory. Code was refactored to explicitly search for file then
-			// search for directory, catching 404 errors as "file not found".
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/files/argocd?ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/files/argocd%2Finstall%2Eyaml?ref=master":
-			_, err := io.WriteString(w, `{"file_name":"install.yaml","file_path":"argocd/install.yaml","size":0,"encoding":"base64","content_sha256":"e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855","ref":"main","blob_id":"e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391","commit_id":"6d4c0f9d34534ccc73aa3f3180b25e2aebe630eb","last_commit_id":"b50eb63f9c0e09bfdb070db26fd32c7210291f52","execute_filemode":false,"content":""}`)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fail()
-			}
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/files/notathing?ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/tree?path=notathing&ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/files/argocd%2Fnotathing%2Eyaml?ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/tree?path=argocd%2Fnotathing.yaml&ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/files/notathing%2Fnotathing%2Eyaml?ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/tree?path=notathing%2Fnotathing.yaml&ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/files/notathing%2Fnotathing%2Fnotathing%2Eyaml?ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/tree?path=notathing%2Fnotathing%2Fnotathing.yaml&ref=master":
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
 		case "/api/v4/projects/27084533/repository/branches/foo":
 			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
 		default:
@@ -1221,16 +1193,6 @@ func TestGitlabHasPath(t *testing.T) {
 			path:   "argocd/notathing.yaml",
 			exists: false,
 		},
-		{
-			name:   "noexistent file in noexistent directory",
-			path:   "notathing/notathing.yaml",
-			exists: false,
-		},
-		{
-			name:   "noexistent file in nested noexistent directory",
-			path:   "notathing/notathing/notathing.yaml",
-			exists: false,
-		},
 	}

 	for _, c := range cases {
--- a/applicationset/utils/clusterUtils.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/clusterUtils.go
@@ -2,15 +2,22 @@ package utils

 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"

 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	appv1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/db"

-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
+	"k8s.io/utils/ptr"
 )

 // The contents of this file are from
@@ -44,12 +51,9 @@ const (
 // if we used destination name we infer the server url
 // if we used both name and server then we return an invalid spec error
 func ValidateDestination(ctx context.Context, dest *appv1.ApplicationDestination, clientset kubernetes.Interface, argoCDNamespace string) error {
-	if dest.IsServerInferred() && dest.IsNameInferred() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("application destination can't have both name and server inferred: %s %s", dest.Name, dest.Server)
-	}
 	if dest.Name != "" {
 		if dest.Server == "" {
-			server, err := getDestinationBy(ctx, dest.Name, clientset, argoCDNamespace, true)
+			server, err := getDestinationServer(ctx, dest.Name, clientset, argoCDNamespace)
 			if err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("unable to find destination server: %w", err)
 			}
@@ -57,25 +61,14 @@ func ValidateDestination(ctx context.Context, dest *appv1.ApplicationDestination
 				return fmt.Errorf("application references destination cluster %s which does not exist", dest.Name)
 			}
 			dest.SetInferredServer(server)
-		} else if !dest.IsServerInferred() && !dest.IsNameInferred() {
+		} else if !dest.IsServerInferred() {
 			return fmt.Errorf("application destination can't have both name and server defined: %s %s", dest.Name, dest.Server)
 		}
-	} else if dest.Server != "" {
-		if dest.Name == "" {
-			serverName, err := getDestinationBy(ctx, dest.Server, clientset, argoCDNamespace, false)
-			if err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("unable to find destination server: %w", err)
-			}
-			if serverName == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("application references destination cluster %s which does not exist", dest.Server)
-			}
-			dest.SetInferredName(serverName)
-		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }

-func getDestinationBy(ctx context.Context, cluster string, clientset kubernetes.Interface, argoCDNamespace string, byName bool) (string, error) {
+func getDestinationServer(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, clientset kubernetes.Interface, argoCDNamespace string) (string, error) {
 	// settingsMgr := settings.NewSettingsManager(context.TODO(), clientset, namespace)
 	// argoDB := db.NewDB(namespace, settingsMgr, clientset)
 	// clusterList, err := argoDB.ListClusters(ctx)
@@ -85,17 +78,14 @@ func getDestinationBy(ctx context.Context, cluster string, clientset kubernetes.
 	}
 	var servers []string
 	for _, c := range clusterList.Items {
-		if byName && c.Name == cluster {
+		if c.Name == clusterName {
 			servers = append(servers, c.Server)
 		}
-		if !byName && c.Server == cluster {
-			servers = append(servers, c.Name)
-		}
 	}
 	if len(servers) > 1 {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("there are %d clusters with the same name: %v", len(servers), servers)
 	} else if len(servers) == 0 {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("there are no clusters with this name: %s", cluster)
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("there are no clusters with this name: %s", clusterName)
 	}
 	return servers[0], nil
 }
@@ -119,15 +109,11 @@ func ListClusters(ctx context.Context, clientset kubernetes.Interface, namespace
 	hasInClusterCredentials := false
 	for i, clusterSecret := range clusterSecrets {
 		// This line has changed from the original Argo CD code: now receives an error, and handles it
-		cluster, err := db.SecretToCluster(&clusterSecret)
+		cluster, err := secretToCluster(&clusterSecret)
 		if err != nil || cluster == nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to convert cluster secret to cluster object '%s': %w", clusterSecret.Name, err)
 		}

-		// db.SecretToCluster populates these, but they're not meant to be available to the caller.
-		cluster.Labels = nil
-		cluster.Annotations = nil
-
 		clusterList.Items[i] = *cluster
 		if cluster.Server == appv1.KubernetesInternalAPIServerAddr {
 			hasInClusterCredentials = true
@@ -164,3 +150,48 @@ func getLocalCluster(clientset kubernetes.Interface) *appv1.Cluster {
 	cluster.ConnectionState.ModifiedAt = &now
 	return cluster
 }
+
+// secretToCluster converts a secret into a Cluster object
+func secretToCluster(s *corev1.Secret) (*appv1.Cluster, error) {
+	var config appv1.ClusterConfig
+	if len(s.Data["config"]) > 0 {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(s.Data["config"], &config); err != nil {
+			// This line has changed from the original Argo CD: now returns an error rather than panicing.
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	var namespaces []string
+	for _, ns := range strings.Split(string(s.Data["namespaces"]), ",") {
+		if ns = strings.TrimSpace(ns); ns != "" {
+			namespaces = append(namespaces, ns)
+		}
+	}
+	var refreshRequestedAt *metav1.Time
+	if v, found := s.Annotations[appv1.AnnotationKeyRefresh]; found {
+		requestedAt, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, v)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Warnf("Error while parsing date in cluster secret '%s': %v", s.Name, err)
+		} else {
+			refreshRequestedAt = &metav1.Time{Time: requestedAt}
+		}
+	}
+	var shard *int64
+	if shardStr := s.Data["shard"]; shardStr != nil {
+		if val, err := strconv.Atoi(string(shardStr)); err != nil {
+			log.Warnf("Error while parsing shard in cluster secret '%s': %v", s.Name, err)
+		} else {
+			shard = ptr.To(int64(val))
+		}
+	}
+	cluster := appv1.Cluster{
+		ID:                 string(s.UID),
+		Server:             strings.TrimRight(string(s.Data["server"]), "/"),
+		Name:               string(s.Data["name"]),
+		Namespaces:         namespaces,
+		Config:             config,
+		RefreshRequestedAt: refreshRequestedAt,
+		Shard:              shard,
+	}
+	return &cluster, nil
+}
--- a/applicationset/utils/clusterUtils_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/clusterUtils_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,50 @@ const (
 	fakeNamespace = "fake-ns"
 )

+// From Argo CD util/db/cluster_test.go
+func Test_secretToCluster(t *testing.T) {
+	secret := &corev1.Secret{
+		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+			Name:      "mycluster",
+			Namespace: fakeNamespace,
+		},
+		Data: map[string][]byte{
+			"name":   []byte("test"),
+			"server": []byte("http://mycluster"),
+			"config": []byte("{\"username\":\"foo\"}"),
+		},
+	}
+	cluster, err := secretToCluster(secret)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, argoappv1.Cluster{
+		Name:   "test",
+		Server: "http://mycluster",
+		Config: argoappv1.ClusterConfig{
+			Username: "foo",
+		},
+	}, *cluster)
+}
+
+// From Argo CD util/db/cluster_test.go
+func Test_secretToCluster_NoConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	secret := &corev1.Secret{
+		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+			Name:      "mycluster",
+			Namespace: fakeNamespace,
+		},
+		Data: map[string][]byte{
+			"name":   []byte("test"),
+			"server": []byte("http://mycluster"),
+		},
+	}
+	cluster, err := secretToCluster(secret)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, argoappv1.Cluster{
+		Name:   "test",
+		Server: "http://mycluster",
+	}, *cluster)
+}
+
 func createClusterSecret(secretName string, clusterName string, clusterServer string) *corev1.Secret {
 	secret := &corev1.Secret{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
@@ -48,12 +92,7 @@ func TestValidateDestination(t *testing.T) {
 			Namespace: "default",
 		}

-		secret := createClusterSecret("my-secret", "minikube", "https://127.0.0.1:6443")
-		objects := []runtime.Object{}
-		objects = append(objects, secret)
-		kubeclientset := fake.NewSimpleClientset(objects...)
-
-		appCond := ValidateDestination(context.Background(), &dest, kubeclientset, fakeNamespace)
+		appCond := ValidateDestination(context.Background(), &dest, nil, fakeNamespace)
 		require.NoError(t, appCond)
 		assert.False(t, dest.IsServerInferred())
 	})
--- a/applicationset/utils/createOrUpdate_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/createOrUpdate_test.go
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ spec:
 			require.NoError(t, err)
 			yamlExpected, err := yaml.Marshal(tc.expectedApp)
 			require.NoError(t, err)
-			assert.YAMLEq(t, string(yamlExpected), string(yamlFound))
+			assert.Equal(t, string(yamlExpected), string(yamlFound))
 		})
 	}
 }
--- a/applicationset/utils/kubernetes.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/kubernetes.go
@@ -4,18 +4,14 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"

-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
-
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"

 	argoprojiov1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
 )

-var ErrDisallowedSecretAccess = fmt.Errorf("secret must have label %q=%q", common.LabelKeySecretType, common.LabelValueSecretTypeSCMCreds)
-
 // getSecretRef gets the value of the key for the specified Secret resource.
-func GetSecretRef(ctx context.Context, k8sClient client.Client, ref *argoprojiov1alpha1.SecretRef, namespace string, tokenRefStrictMode bool) (string, error) {
+func GetSecretRef(ctx context.Context, k8sClient client.Client, ref *argoprojiov1alpha1.SecretRef, namespace string) (string, error) {
 	if ref == nil {
 		return "", nil
 	}
@@ -31,11 +27,6 @@ func GetSecretRef(ctx context.Context, k8sClient client.Client, ref *argoprojiov
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("error fetching secret %s/%s: %w", namespace, ref.SecretName, err)
 	}
-
-	if tokenRefStrictMode && secret.GetLabels()[common.LabelKeySecretType] != common.LabelValueSecretTypeSCMCreds {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("secret %s/%s is not a valid SCM creds secret: %w", namespace, ref.SecretName, ErrDisallowedSecretAccess)
-	}
-
 	tokenBytes, ok := secret.Data[ref.Key]
 	if !ok {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("key %q in secret %s/%s not found", ref.Key, namespace, ref.SecretName)
--- a/applicationset/utils/kubernetes_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/kubernetes_test.go
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ func TestGetSecretRef(t *testing.T) {

 	for _, c := range cases {
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			token, err := GetSecretRef(ctx, client, c.ref, c.namespace, false)
+			token, err := GetSecretRef(ctx, client, c.ref, c.namespace)
 			if c.hasError {
 				require.Error(t, err)
 			} else {
--- a/applicationset/utils/map.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/map.go
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ func ConvertToMapStringString(mapStringInterface map[string]interface{}) map[str
 	mapStringString := make(map[string]string, len(mapStringInterface))

 	for key, value := range mapStringInterface {
-		mapStringString[key] = fmt.Sprintf("%v", value)
+		strKey := fmt.Sprintf("%v", key)
+		strValue := fmt.Sprintf("%v", value)
+
+		mapStringString[strKey] = strValue
 	}
 	return mapStringString
 }
--- a/applicationset/utils/mocks/Renderer.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/mocks/Renderer.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Code generated by mockery v2.53.4. DO NOT EDIT.
+// Code generated by mockery v2.43.2. DO NOT EDIT.

 package mocks

--- a/applicationset/utils/utils.go
+++ b/applicationset/utils/utils.go
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ func (r *Render) RenderTemplateParams(tmpl *argoappsv1.Application, syncPolicy *
 	// b) there IS a syncPolicy, but preserveResourcesOnDeletion is set to false
 	// See TestRenderTemplateParamsFinalizers in util_test.go for test-based definition of behaviour
 	if (syncPolicy == nil || !syncPolicy.PreserveResourcesOnDeletion) &&
-		len(replacedTmpl.ObjectMeta.Finalizers) == 0 {
+		(replacedTmpl.ObjectMeta.Finalizers == nil || len(replacedTmpl.ObjectMeta.Finalizers) == 0) {
 		replacedTmpl.ObjectMeta.Finalizers = []string{"resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io"}
 	}

--- a/applicationset/webhook/testdata/github-commit-event-feature-branch.json
+++ b/applicationset/webhook/testdata/github-commit-event-feature-branch.json
@@ -1,186 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "ref": "refs/heads/env/dev",
-    "before": "d5c1ffa8e294bc18c639bfb4e0df499251034414",
-    "after": "63738bb582c8b540af7bcfc18f87c575c3ed66e0",
-    "created": false,
-    "deleted": false,
-    "forced": true,
-    "base_ref": null,
-    "compare": "https://github.com/org/repo/compare/d5c1ffa8e294...63738bb582c8",
-    "commits": [
-      {
-        "id": "63738bb582c8b540af7bcfc18f87c575c3ed66e0",
-        "tree_id": "64897da445207e409ad05af93b1f349ad0a4ee19",
-        "distinct": true,
-        "message": "Add staging-argocd-demo environment",
-        "timestamp": "2018-05-04T15:40:02-07:00",
-        "url": "https://github.com/org/repo/commit/63738bb582c8b540af7bcfc18f87c575c3ed66e0",
-        "author": {
-          "name": "Jesse Suen",
-          "email": "Jesse_Suen@example.com",
-          "username": "org"
-        },
-        "committer": {
-          "name": "Jesse Suen",
-          "email": "Jesse_Suen@example.com",
-          "username": "org"
-        },
-        "added": [
-          "ksapps/test-app/environments/staging-argocd-demo/main.jsonnet",
-          "ksapps/test-app/environments/staging-argocd-demo/params.libsonnet"
-        ],
-        "removed": [
-  
-        ],
-        "modified": [
-          "ksapps/test-app/app.yaml"
-        ]
-      }
-    ],
-    "head_commit": {
-      "id": "63738bb582c8b540af7bcfc18f87c575c3ed66e0",
-      "tree_id": "64897da445207e409ad05af93b1f349ad0a4ee19",
-      "distinct": true,
-      "message": "Add staging-argocd-demo environment",
-      "timestamp": "2018-05-04T15:40:02-07:00",
-      "url": "https://github.com/org/repo/commit/63738bb582c8b540af7bcfc18f87c575c3ed66e0",
-      "author": {
-        "name": "Jesse Suen",
-        "email": "Jesse_Suen@example.com",
-        "username": "org"
-      },
-      "committer": {
-        "name": "Jesse Suen",
-        "email": "Jesse_Suen@example.com",
-        "username": "org"
-      },
-      "added": [
-        "ksapps/test-app/environments/staging-argocd-demo/main.jsonnet",
-        "ksapps/test-app/environments/staging-argocd-demo/params.libsonnet"
-      ],
-      "removed": [
-  
-      ],
-      "modified": [
-        "ksapps/test-app/app.yaml"
-      ]
-    },
-    "repository": {
-      "id": 123060978,
-      "name": "repo",
-      "full_name": "org/repo",
-      "owner": {
-        "name": "org",
-        "email": "org@users.noreply.github.com",
-        "login": "org",
-        "id": 12677113,
-        "avatar_url": "https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/12677113?v=4",
-        "gravatar_id": "",
-        "url": "https://api.github.com/users/org",
-        "html_url": "https://github.com/org",
-        "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/followers",
-        "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/following{/other_user}",
-        "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/gists{/gist_id}",
-        "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
-        "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/subscriptions",
-        "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/orgs",
-        "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/repos",
-        "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/events{/privacy}",
-        "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/received_events",
-        "type": "User",
-        "site_admin": false
-      },
-      "private": false,
-      "html_url": "https://github.com/org/repo",
-      "description": "Test Repository",
-      "fork": false,
-      "url": "https://github.com/org/repo",
-      "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/forks",
-      "keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/keys{/key_id}",
-      "collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/collaborators{/collaborator}",
-      "teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/teams",
-      "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/hooks",
-      "issue_events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/issues/events{/number}",
-      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/events",
-      "assignees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/assignees{/user}",
-      "branches_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/branches{/branch}",
-      "tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/tags",
-      "blobs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/git/blobs{/sha}",
-      "git_tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/git/tags{/sha}",
-      "git_refs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/git/refs{/sha}",
-      "trees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/git/trees{/sha}",
-      "statuses_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/statuses/{sha}",
-      "languages_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/languages",
-      "stargazers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/stargazers",
-      "contributors_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/contributors",
-      "subscribers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/subscribers",
-      "subscription_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/subscription",
-      "commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/commits{/sha}",
-      "git_commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/git/commits{/sha}",
-      "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/comments{/number}",
-      "issue_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/issues/comments{/number}",
-      "contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/contents/{+path}",
-      "compare_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/compare/{base}...{head}",
-      "merges_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/merges",
-      "archive_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/{archive_format}{/ref}",
-      "downloads_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/downloads",
-      "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/issues{/number}",
-      "pulls_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/pulls{/number}",
-      "milestones_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/milestones{/number}",
-      "notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/notifications{?since,all,participating}",
-      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/labels{/name}",
-      "releases_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/releases{/id}",
-      "deployments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/org/repo/deployments",
-      "created_at": 1519698615,
-      "updated_at": "2018-05-04T22:37:55Z",
-      "pushed_at": 1525473610,
-      "git_url": "git://github.com/org/repo.git",
-      "ssh_url": "git@github.com:org/repo.git",
-      "clone_url": "https://github.com/org/repo.git",
-      "svn_url": "https://github.com/org/repo",
-      "homepage": null,
-      "size": 538,
-      "stargazers_count": 0,
-      "watchers_count": 0,
-      "language": null,
-      "has_issues": true,
-      "has_projects": true,
-      "has_downloads": true,
-      "has_wiki": true,
-      "has_pages": false,
-      "forks_count": 1,
-      "mirror_url": null,
-      "archived": false,
-      "open_issues_count": 0,
-      "license": null,
-      "forks": 1,
-      "open_issues": 0,
-      "watchers": 0,
-      "default_branch": "master",
-      "stargazers": 0,
-      "master_branch": "master"
-    },
-    "pusher": {
-      "name": "org",
-      "email": "org@users.noreply.github.com"
-    },
-    "sender": {
-      "login": "org",
-      "id": 12677113,
-      "avatar_url": "https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/12677113?v=4",
-      "gravatar_id": "",
-      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/org",
-      "html_url": "https://github.com/org",
-      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/followers",
-      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/following{/other_user}",
-      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/gists{/gist_id}",
-      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
-      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/subscriptions",
-      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/orgs",
-      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/repos",
-      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/events{/privacy}",
-      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/org/received_events",
-      "type": "User",
-      "site_admin": false
-    }
-  }
--- a/applicationset/webhook/webhook.go
+++ b/applicationset/webhook/webhook.go
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
 	argosettings "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/settings"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/webhook"

 	"github.com/go-playground/webhooks/v6/azuredevops"
 	"github.com/go-playground/webhooks/v6/github"
@@ -191,6 +190,11 @@ func (h *WebhookHandler) Handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 }

+func parseRevision(ref string) string {
+	refParts := strings.SplitN(ref, "/", 3)
+	return refParts[len(refParts)-1]
+}
+
 func getGitGeneratorInfo(payload interface{}) *gitGeneratorInfo {
 	var (
 		webURL      string
@@ -200,16 +204,16 @@ func getGitGeneratorInfo(payload interface{}) *gitGeneratorInfo {
 	switch payload := payload.(type) {
 	case github.PushPayload:
 		webURL = payload.Repository.HTMLURL
-		revision = webhook.ParseRevision(payload.Ref)
+		revision = parseRevision(payload.Ref)
 		touchedHead = payload.Repository.DefaultBranch == revision
 	case gitlab.PushEventPayload:
 		webURL = payload.Project.WebURL
-		revision = webhook.ParseRevision(payload.Ref)
+		revision = parseRevision(payload.Ref)
 		touchedHead = payload.Project.DefaultBranch == revision
 	case azuredevops.GitPushEvent:
 		// See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/service-hooks/events?view=azure-devops#git.push
 		webURL = payload.Resource.Repository.RemoteURL
-		revision = webhook.ParseRevision(payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].Name)
+		revision = parseRevision(payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].Name)
 		touchedHead = payload.Resource.RefUpdates[0].Name == payload.Resource.Repository.DefaultBranch
 		// unfortunately, Azure DevOps doesn't provide a list of changed files
 	default:
@@ -222,7 +226,7 @@ func getGitGeneratorInfo(payload interface{}) *gitGeneratorInfo {
 		log.Errorf("Failed to parse repoURL '%s'", webURL)
 		return nil
 	}
-	regexpStr := `(?i)(http://|https://|\w+@|ssh://(\w+@)?)` + urlObj.Hostname() + "(:[0-9]+|)[:/]" + urlObj.Path[1:] + "(\\.git)?$"
+	regexpStr := `(?i)(http://|https://|\w+@|ssh://(\w+@)?)` + urlObj.Hostname() + "(:[0-9]+|)[:/]" + urlObj.Path[1:] + "(\\.git)?"
 	repoRegexp, err := regexp.Compile(regexpStr)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Errorf("Failed to compile regexp for repoURL '%s'", webURL)
@@ -369,12 +373,12 @@ func shouldRefreshPluginGenerator(gen *v1alpha1.PluginGenerator) bool {
 }

 func genRevisionHasChanged(gen *v1alpha1.GitGenerator, revision string, touchedHead bool) bool {
-	targetRev := webhook.ParseRevision(gen.Revision)
+	targetRev := parseRevision(gen.Revision)
 	if targetRev == "HEAD" || targetRev == "" { // revision is head
 		return touchedHead
 	}

-	return targetRev == revision || gen.Revision == revision
+	return targetRev == revision
 }

 func gitGeneratorUsesURL(gen *v1alpha1.GitGenerator, webURL string, repoRegexp *regexp.Regexp) bool {
--- a/applicationset/webhook/webhook_test.go
+++ b/applicationset/webhook/webhook_test.go
@@ -67,15 +67,6 @@ func TestWebhookHandler(t *testing.T) {
 			expectedStatusCode: http.StatusOK,
 			expectedRefresh:    true,
 		},
-		{
-			desc:               "WebHook from a GitHub repository via Commit shorthand",
-			headerKey:          "X-GitHub-Event",
-			headerValue:        "push",
-			payloadFile:        "github-commit-event-feature-branch.json",
-			effectedAppSets:    []string{"github-shorthand", "matrix-pull-request-github-plugin", "plugin"},
-			expectedStatusCode: http.StatusOK,
-			expectedRefresh:    true,
-		},
 		{
 			desc:               "WebHook from a GitHub repository via Commit to branch",
 			headerKey:          "X-GitHub-Event",
@@ -199,10 +190,8 @@ func TestWebhookHandler(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run(test.desc, func(t *testing.T) {
 			fc := fake.NewClientBuilder().WithScheme(scheme).WithObjects(
 				fakeAppWithGitGenerator("git-github", namespace, "https://github.com/org/repo"),
-				fakeAppWithGitGenerator("git-github-copy", namespace, "https://github.com/org/repo-copy"),
 				fakeAppWithGitGenerator("git-gitlab", namespace, "https://gitlab/group/name"),
 				fakeAppWithGitGenerator("git-azure-devops", namespace, "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam-fiber-inc/DefaultCollection/_git/Fabrikam-Fiber-Git"),
-				fakeAppWithGitGeneratorWithRevision("github-shorthand", namespace, "https://github.com/org/repo", "env/dev"),
 				fakeAppWithGithubPullRequestGenerator("pull-request-github", namespace, "CodErTOcat", "Hello-World"),
 				fakeAppWithGitlabPullRequestGenerator("pull-request-gitlab", namespace, "100500"),
 				fakeAppWithAzureDevOpsPullRequestGenerator("pull-request-azure-devops", namespace, "DefaultCollection", "Fabrikam"),
@@ -243,8 +232,9 @@ func TestWebhookHandler(t *testing.T) {
 			for i := range list.Items {
 				gotAppSet := &list.Items[i]
 				if _, isEffected := effectedAppSetsAsExpected[gotAppSet.Name]; isEffected {
-					expected, got := test.expectedRefresh, gotAppSet.RefreshRequired()
-					require.Equalf(t, expected, got, "unexpected RefreshRequired() for appset '%s' expect: %v got: %v", gotAppSet.Name, expected, got)
+					if expected, got := test.expectedRefresh, gotAppSet.RefreshRequired(); expected != got {
+						t.Errorf("unexpected RefreshRequired() for appset '%s' expect: %v got: %v", gotAppSet.Name, expected, got)
+					}
 					effectedAppSetsAsExpected[gotAppSet.Name] = true
 				} else {
 					assert.False(t, gotAppSet.RefreshRequired())
@@ -312,62 +302,14 @@ func mockGenerators() map[string]generators.Generator {
 }

 func TestGenRevisionHasChanged(t *testing.T) {
-	type args struct {
-		gen         *v1alpha1.GitGenerator
-		revision    string
-		touchedHead bool
-	}
-	tests := []struct {
-		name string
-		args args
-		want bool
-	}{
-		{name: "touchedHead", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{},
-			revision:    "main",
-			touchedHead: true,
-		}, want: true},
-		{name: "didntTouchHead", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{},
-			revision:    "main",
-			touchedHead: false,
-		}, want: false},
-		{name: "foundEqualShort", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "dev"},
-			revision:    "dev",
-			touchedHead: true,
-		}, want: true},
-		{name: "foundEqualLongGen", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "refs/heads/dev"},
-			revision:    "dev",
-			touchedHead: true,
-		}, want: true},
-		{name: "foundNotEqualLongGen", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "refs/heads/dev"},
-			revision:    "main",
-			touchedHead: true,
-		}, want: false},
-		{name: "foundNotEqualShort", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "dev"},
-			revision:    "main",
-			touchedHead: false,
-		}, want: false},
-		{name: "foundEqualTag", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "v3.14.1"},
-			revision:    "v3.14.1",
-			touchedHead: false,
-		}, want: true},
-		{name: "foundEqualTagLongGen", args: args{
-			gen:         &v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "refs/tags/v3.14.1"},
-			revision:    "v3.14.1",
-			touchedHead: false,
-		}, want: true},
-	}
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			assert.Equalf(t, tt.want, genRevisionHasChanged(tt.args.gen, tt.args.revision, tt.args.touchedHead), "genRevisionHasChanged(%v, %v, %v)", tt.args.gen, tt.args.revision, tt.args.touchedHead)
-		})
-	}
+	assert.True(t, genRevisionHasChanged(&v1alpha1.GitGenerator{}, "master", true))
+	assert.False(t, genRevisionHasChanged(&v1alpha1.GitGenerator{}, "master", false))
+
+	assert.True(t, genRevisionHasChanged(&v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "dev"}, "dev", true))
+	assert.False(t, genRevisionHasChanged(&v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "dev"}, "master", false))
+
+	assert.True(t, genRevisionHasChanged(&v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "refs/heads/dev"}, "dev", true))
+	assert.False(t, genRevisionHasChanged(&v1alpha1.GitGenerator{Revision: "refs/heads/dev"}, "master", false))
 }

 func fakeAppWithGitGenerator(name, namespace, repo string) *v1alpha1.ApplicationSet {
@@ -389,12 +331,6 @@ func fakeAppWithGitGenerator(name, namespace, repo string) *v1alpha1.Application
 	}
 }

-func fakeAppWithGitGeneratorWithRevision(name, namespace, repo, revision string) *v1alpha1.ApplicationSet {
-	appSet := fakeAppWithGitGenerator(name, namespace, repo)
-	appSet.Spec.Generators[0].Git.Revision = revision
-	return appSet
-}
-
 func fakeAppWithGitlabPullRequestGenerator(name, namespace, projectId string) *v1alpha1.ApplicationSet {
 	return &v1alpha1.ApplicationSet{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
@@ -775,7 +711,7 @@ func fakeAppWithMatrixAndPullRequestGeneratorWithPluginGenerator(name, namespace
 func newFakeClient(ns string) *kubefake.Clientset {
 	s := runtime.NewScheme()
 	s.AddKnownTypes(v1alpha1.SchemeGroupVersion, &v1alpha1.ApplicationSet{})
-	return kubefake.NewClientset(&corev1.ConfigMap{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "argocd-cm", Namespace: ns, Labels: map[string]string{
+	return kubefake.NewSimpleClientset(&corev1.ConfigMap{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "argocd-cm", Namespace: ns, Labels: map[string]string{
 		"app.kubernetes.io/part-of": "argocd",
 	}}}, &corev1.Secret{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
--- a/assets/builtin-policy.csv
+++ b/assets/builtin-policy.csv
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ p, role:readonly, applications, get, */*, allow
 p, role:readonly, certificates, get, *, allow
 p, role:readonly, clusters, get, *, allow
 p, role:readonly, repositories, get, *, allow
-p, role:readonly, write-repositories, get, *, allow
 p, role:readonly, projects, get, *, allow
 p, role:readonly, accounts, get, *, allow
 p, role:readonly, gpgkeys, get, *, allow
@@ -18,9 +17,7 @@ p, role:readonly, logs, get, */*, allow

 p, role:admin, applications, create, */*, allow
 p, role:admin, applications, update, */*, allow
-p, role:admin, applications, update/*, */*, allow
 p, role:admin, applications, delete, */*, allow
-p, role:admin, applications, delete/*, */*, allow
 p, role:admin, applications, sync, */*, allow
 p, role:admin, applications, override, */*, allow
 p, role:admin, applications, action/*, */*, allow
@@ -37,9 +34,6 @@ p, role:admin, clusters, delete, *, allow
 p, role:admin, repositories, create, *, allow
 p, role:admin, repositories, update, *, allow
 p, role:admin, repositories, delete, *, allow
-p, role:admin, write-repositories, create, *, allow
-p, role:admin, write-repositories, update, *, allow
-p, role:admin, write-repositories, delete, *, allow
 p, role:admin, projects, create, *, allow
 p, role:admin, projects, update, *, allow
 p, role:admin, projects, delete, *, allow
@@ -49,4 +43,4 @@ p, role:admin, gpgkeys, delete, *, allow
 p, role:admin, exec, create, */*, allow

 g, role:admin, role:readonly
-g, admin, role:admin
+g, admin, role:admin
--- a/assets/swagger.json
+++ b/assets/swagger.json
@@ -1990,39 +1990,6 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "/api/v1/applicationsets/generate": {
-      "post": {
-        "tags": [
-          "ApplicationSetService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "Generate generates",
-        "operationId": "ApplicationSetService_Generate",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "name": "body",
-            "in": "body",
-            "required": true,
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/applicationsetApplicationSetGenerateRequest"
-            }
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/applicationsetApplicationSetGenerateResponse"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "/api/v1/applicationsets/{name}": {
      "get": {
        "tags": [
@@ -4117,504 +4084,6 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repocreds": {
-      "get": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepoCredsService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "ListWriteRepositoryCredentials gets a list of all configured repository credential sets that have write access",
-        "operationId": "RepoCredsService_ListWriteRepositoryCredentials",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Repo URL for query.",
-            "name": "url",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1RepoCredsList"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      },
-      "post": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepoCredsService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "CreateWriteRepositoryCredentials creates a new repository credential set with write access",
-        "operationId": "RepoCredsService_CreateWriteRepositoryCredentials",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "description": "Repository definition",
-            "name": "body",
-            "in": "body",
-            "required": true,
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1RepoCreds"
-            }
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to create in upsert mode.",
-            "name": "upsert",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1RepoCreds"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repocreds/{creds.url}": {
-      "put": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepoCredsService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "UpdateWriteRepositoryCredentials updates a repository credential set with write access",
-        "operationId": "RepoCredsService_UpdateWriteRepositoryCredentials",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "URL is the URL to which these credentials match",
-            "name": "creds.url",
-            "in": "path",
-            "required": true
-          },
-          {
-            "name": "body",
-            "in": "body",
-            "required": true,
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1RepoCreds"
-            }
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1RepoCreds"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repocreds/{url}": {
-      "delete": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepoCredsService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "DeleteWriteRepositoryCredentials deletes a repository credential set with write access from the configuration",
-        "operationId": "RepoCredsService_DeleteWriteRepositoryCredentials",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "name": "url",
-            "in": "path",
-            "required": true
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/repocredsRepoCredsResponse"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repositories": {
-      "get": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepositoryService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "ListWriteRepositories gets a list of all configured write repositories",
-        "operationId": "RepositoryService_ListWriteRepositories",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Repo URL for query.",
-            "name": "repo",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to force a cache refresh on repo's connection state.",
-            "name": "forceRefresh",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "App project for query.",
-            "name": "appProject",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1RepositoryList"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      },
-      "post": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepositoryService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "CreateWriteRepository creates a new write repository configuration",
-        "operationId": "RepositoryService_CreateWriteRepository",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "description": "Repository definition",
-            "name": "body",
-            "in": "body",
-            "required": true,
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1Repository"
-            }
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to create in upsert mode.",
-            "name": "upsert",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to operate on credential set instead of repository.",
-            "name": "credsOnly",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1Repository"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repositories/{repo.repo}": {
-      "put": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepositoryService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "UpdateWriteRepository updates a write repository configuration",
-        "operationId": "RepositoryService_UpdateWriteRepository",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Repo contains the URL to the remote repository",
-            "name": "repo.repo",
-            "in": "path",
-            "required": true
-          },
-          {
-            "name": "body",
-            "in": "body",
-            "required": true,
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1Repository"
-            }
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1Repository"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repositories/{repo}": {
-      "get": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepositoryService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "GetWrite returns a repository or its write credentials",
-        "operationId": "RepositoryService_GetWrite",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Repo URL for query",
-            "name": "repo",
-            "in": "path",
-            "required": true
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to force a cache refresh on repo's connection state.",
-            "name": "forceRefresh",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "App project for query.",
-            "name": "appProject",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1Repository"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      },
-      "delete": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepositoryService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "DeleteWriteRepository deletes a write repository from the configuration",
-        "operationId": "RepositoryService_DeleteWriteRepository",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Repo URL for query",
-            "name": "repo",
-            "in": "path",
-            "required": true
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to force a cache refresh on repo's connection state.",
-            "name": "forceRefresh",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "App project for query.",
-            "name": "appProject",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/repositoryRepoResponse"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "/api/v1/write-repositories/{repo}/validate": {
-      "post": {
-        "tags": [
-          "RepositoryService"
-        ],
-        "summary": "ValidateWriteAccess validates write access to a repository with given parameters",
-        "operationId": "RepositoryService_ValidateWriteAccess",
-        "parameters": [
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "The URL to the repo",
-            "name": "repo",
-            "in": "path",
-            "required": true
-          },
-          {
-            "description": "The URL to the repo",
-            "name": "body",
-            "in": "body",
-            "required": true,
-            "schema": {
-              "type": "string"
-            }
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Username for accessing repo.",
-            "name": "username",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Password for accessing repo.",
-            "name": "password",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Private key data for accessing SSH repository.",
-            "name": "sshPrivateKey",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to skip certificate or host key validation.",
-            "name": "insecure",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "TLS client cert data for accessing HTTPS repository.",
-            "name": "tlsClientCertData",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "TLS client cert key for accessing HTTPS repository.",
-            "name": "tlsClientCertKey",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "The type of the repo.",
-            "name": "type",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "The name of the repo.",
-            "name": "name",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether helm-oci support should be enabled for this repo.",
-            "name": "enableOci",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Github App Private Key PEM data.",
-            "name": "githubAppPrivateKey",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "format": "int64",
-            "description": "Github App ID of the app used to access the repo.",
-            "name": "githubAppID",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "format": "int64",
-            "description": "Github App Installation ID of the installed GitHub App.",
-            "name": "githubAppInstallationID",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Github App Enterprise base url if empty will default to https://api.github.com.",
-            "name": "githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "HTTP/HTTPS proxy to access the repository.",
-            "name": "proxy",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Reference between project and repository that allow you automatically to be added as item inside SourceRepos project entity.",
-            "name": "project",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "string",
-            "description": "Google Cloud Platform service account key.",
-            "name": "gcpServiceAccountKey",
-            "in": "query"
-          },
-          {
-            "type": "boolean",
-            "description": "Whether to force HTTP basic auth.",
-            "name": "forceHttpBasicAuth",
-            "in": "query"
-          }
-        ],
-        "responses": {
-          "200": {
-            "description": "A successful response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/repositoryRepoResponse"
-            }
-          },
-          "default": {
-            "description": "An unexpected error response.",
-            "schema": {
-              "$ref": "#/definitions/runtimeError"
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "/api/version": {
      "get": {
        "tags": [
@@ -5088,9 +4557,6 @@
        "namespace": {
          "type": "string"
        },
-        "requiresDeletionConfirmation": {
-          "type": "boolean"
-        },
        "requiresPruning": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
@@ -5222,12 +4688,6 @@
    "clusterSettings": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
-        "additionalUrls": {
-          "type": "array",
-          "items": {
-            "type": "string"
-          }
-        },
        "appLabelKey": {
          "type": "string"
        },
@@ -5256,15 +4716,6 @@
        "help": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/clusterHelp"
        },
-        "hydratorEnabled": {
-          "type": "boolean"
-        },
-        "impersonationEnabled": {
-          "type": "boolean"
-        },
-        "installationID": {
-          "type": "string"
-        },
        "kustomizeOptions": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1KustomizeOptions"
        },
@@ -6486,13 +5937,6 @@
          "type": "string",
          "title": "Description contains optional project description"
        },
-        "destinationServiceAccounts": {
-          "description": "DestinationServiceAccounts holds information about the service accounts to be impersonated for the application sync operation for each destination.",
-          "type": "array",
-          "items": {
-            "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1ApplicationDestinationServiceAccount"
-          }
-        },
        "destinations": {
          "type": "array",
          "title": "Destinations contains list of destinations available for deployment",
@@ -6624,24 +6068,6 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "v1alpha1ApplicationDestinationServiceAccount": {
-      "description": "ApplicationDestinationServiceAccount holds information about the service account to be impersonated for the application sync operation.",
-      "type": "object",
-      "properties": {
-        "defaultServiceAccount": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "DefaultServiceAccount to be used for impersonation during the sync operation"
-        },
-        "namespace": {
-          "description": "Namespace specifies the target namespace for the application's resources.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "server": {
-          "description": "Server specifies the URL of the target cluster's Kubernetes control plane API.",
-          "type": "string"
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "v1alpha1ApplicationList": {
      "type": "object",
      "title": "ApplicationList is list of Application resources\n+k8s:deepcopy-gen:interfaces=k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime.Object",
@@ -7069,10 +6495,6 @@
        "kustomize": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1ApplicationSourceKustomize"
        },
-        "name": {
-          "description": "Name is used to refer to a source and is displayed in the UI. It is used in multi-source Applications.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
        "path": {
          "description": "Path is a directory path within the Git repository, and is only valid for applications sourced from Git.",
          "type": "string"
@@ -7164,14 +6586,6 @@
          "type": "boolean",
          "title": "SkipCrds skips custom resource definition installation step (Helm's --skip-crds)"
        },
-        "skipSchemaValidation": {
-          "type": "boolean",
-          "title": "SkipSchemaValidation skips JSON schema validation (Helm's --skip-schema-validation)"
-        },
-        "skipTests": {
-          "description": "SkipTests skips test manifest installation step (Helm's --skip-tests).",
-          "type": "boolean"
-        },
        "valueFiles": {
          "type": "array",
          "title": "ValuesFiles is a list of Helm value files to use when generating a template",
@@ -7391,9 +6805,6 @@
        "source": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1ApplicationSource"
        },
-        "sourceHydrator": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1SourceHydrator"
-        },
        "sources": {
          "type": "array",
          "title": "Sources is a reference to the location of the application's manifests or chart",
@@ -7451,9 +6862,6 @@
            "$ref": "#/definitions/applicationv1alpha1ResourceStatus"
          }
        },
-        "sourceHydrator": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1SourceHydratorStatus"
-        },
        "sourceType": {
          "type": "string",
          "title": "SourceType specifies the type of this application"
@@ -7701,20 +7109,12 @@
          "description": "Server requires Bearer authentication. This client will not attempt to use\nrefresh tokens for an OAuth2 flow.\nTODO: demonstrate an OAuth2 compatible client.",
          "type": "string"
        },
-        "disableCompression": {
-          "description": "DisableCompression bypasses automatic GZip compression requests to the server.",
-          "type": "boolean"
-        },
        "execProviderConfig": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1ExecProviderConfig"
        },
        "password": {
          "type": "string"
        },
-        "proxyUrl": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "ProxyURL is the URL to the proxy to be used for all requests send to the server"
-        },
        "tlsClientConfig": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1TLSClientConfig"
        },
@@ -7728,10 +7128,6 @@
      "description": "ClusterGenerator defines a generator to match against clusters registered with ArgoCD.",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
-        "flatList": {
-          "type": "boolean",
-          "title": "returns the clusters a single 'clusters' value in the template"
-        },
        "selector": {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1LabelSelector"
        },
@@ -7881,24 +7277,6 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "v1alpha1DrySource": {
-      "description": "DrySource specifies a location for dry \"don't repeat yourself\" manifest source information.",
-      "type": "object",
-      "properties": {
-        "path": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "Path is a directory path within the Git repository where the manifests are located"
-        },
-        "repoURL": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "RepoURL is the URL to the git repository that contains the application manifests"
-        },
-        "targetRevision": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "TargetRevision defines the revision of the source to hydrate"
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "v1alpha1DuckTypeGenerator": {
      "description": "DuckType defines a generator to match against clusters registered with ArgoCD.",
      "type": "object",
@@ -8069,9 +7447,6 @@
      "type": "object",
      "title": "HealthStatus contains information about the currently observed health state of an application or resource",
      "properties": {
-        "lastTransitionTime": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1Time"
-        },
        "message": {
          "type": "string",
          "title": "Message is a human-readable informational message describing the health status"
@@ -8153,47 +7528,6 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "v1alpha1HydrateOperation": {
-      "type": "object",
-      "title": "HydrateOperation contains information about the most recent hydrate operation",
-      "properties": {
-        "drySHA": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "DrySHA holds the resolved revision (sha) of the dry source as of the most recent reconciliation"
-        },
-        "finishedAt": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1Time"
-        },
-        "hydratedSHA": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "HydratedSHA holds the resolved revision (sha) of the hydrated source as of the most recent reconciliation"
-        },
-        "message": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "Message contains a message describing the current status of the hydrate operation"
-        },
-        "phase": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "Phase indicates the status of the hydrate operation"
-        },
-        "sourceHydrator": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1SourceHydrator"
-        },
-        "startedAt": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1Time"
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "v1alpha1HydrateTo": {
-      "description": "HydrateTo specifies a location to which hydrated manifests should be pushed as a \"staging area\" before being moved to\nthe SyncSource. The RepoURL and Path are assumed based on the associated SyncSource config in the SourceHydrator.",
-      "type": "object",
-      "properties": {
-        "targetBranch": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "TargetBranch is the branch to which hydrated manifests should be committed"
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "v1alpha1Info": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
@@ -9801,59 +9135,10 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "v1alpha1SourceHydrator": {
-      "description": "SourceHydrator specifies a dry \"don't repeat yourself\" source for manifests, a sync source from which to sync\nhydrated manifests, and an optional hydrateTo location to act as a \"staging\" aread for hydrated manifests.",
-      "type": "object",
-      "properties": {
-        "drySource": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1DrySource"
-        },
-        "hydrateTo": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1HydrateTo"
-        },
-        "syncSource": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1SyncSource"
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "v1alpha1SourceHydratorStatus": {
-      "type": "object",
-      "title": "SourceHydratorStatus contains information about the current state of source hydration",
-      "properties": {
-        "currentOperation": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1HydrateOperation"
-        },
-        "lastSuccessfulOperation": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1SuccessfulHydrateOperation"
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "v1alpha1SuccessfulHydrateOperation": {
-      "type": "object",
-      "title": "SuccessfulHydrateOperation contains information about the most recent successful hydrate operation",
-      "properties": {
-        "drySHA": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "DrySHA holds the resolved revision (sha) of the dry source as of the most recent reconciliation"
-        },
-        "hydratedSHA": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "HydratedSHA holds the resolved revision (sha) of the hydrated source as of the most recent reconciliation"
-        },
-        "sourceHydrator": {
-          "$ref": "#/definitions/v1alpha1SourceHydrator"
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "v1alpha1SyncOperation": {
      "description": "SyncOperation contains details about a sync operation.",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
-        "autoHealAttemptsCount": {
-          "type": "integer",
-          "format": "int64",
-          "title": "SelfHealAttemptsCount contains the number of auto-heal attempts"
-        },
        "dryRun": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "title": "DryRun specifies to perform a `kubectl apply --dry-run` without actually performing the sync"
@@ -10004,20 +9289,6 @@
        }
      }
    },
-    "v1alpha1SyncSource": {
-      "description": "SyncSource specifies a location from which hydrated manifests may be synced. RepoURL is assumed based on the\nassociated DrySource config in the SourceHydrator.",
-      "type": "object",
-      "properties": {
-        "path": {
-          "description": "Path is a directory path within the git repository where hydrated manifests should be committed to and synced\nfrom. If hydrateTo is set, this is just the path from which hydrated manifests will be synced.",
-          "type": "string"
-        },
-        "targetBranch": {
-          "type": "string",
-          "title": "TargetBranch is the branch to which hydrated manifests should be committed"
-        }
-      }
-    },
    "v1alpha1SyncStatus": {
      "type": "object",
      "title": "SyncStatus contains information about the currently observed live and desired states of an application",
--- a/cmd/argocd-application-controller/commands/argocd_application_controller.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-application-controller/commands/argocd_application_controller.go
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"

@@ -14,12 +13,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/redis/go-redis/v9"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"

 	cmdutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/cmd/util"
-	commitclient "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/commitserver/apiclient"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/controller"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/controller/sharding"
@@ -27,7 +24,6 @@ import (
 	appclientset "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/client/clientset/versioned"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/ratelimiter"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/apiclient"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/argo"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/argo/normalizers"
 	cacheutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cache"
 	appstatecache "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cache/appstate"
@@ -59,20 +55,13 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		repoErrorGracePeriod             int64
 		repoServerAddress                string
 		repoServerTimeoutSeconds         int
-		commitServerAddress              string
 		selfHealTimeoutSeconds           int
-		selfHealBackoffTimeoutSeconds    int
-		selfHealBackoffFactor            int
-		selfHealBackoffCapSeconds        int
-		selfHealBackoffCooldownSeconds   int
-		syncTimeout                      int
 		statusProcessors                 int
 		operationProcessors              int
 		glogLevel                        int
 		metricsPort                      int
 		metricsCacheExpiration           time.Duration
 		metricsAplicationLabels          []string
-		metricsAplicationConditions      []string
 		kubectlParallelismLimit          int64
 		cacheSource                      func() (*appstatecache.Cache, error)
 		redisClient                      *redis.Client
@@ -88,10 +77,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		enableDynamicClusterDistribution bool
 		serverSideDiff                   bool
 		ignoreNormalizerOpts             normalizers.IgnoreNormalizerOpts
-
-		// argocd k8s event logging flag
-		enableK8sEvent  []string
-		hydratorEnabled bool
 	)
 	command := cobra.Command{
 		Use:               cliName,
@@ -116,13 +101,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			cli.SetLogLevel(cmdutil.LogLevel)
 			cli.SetGLogLevel(glogLevel)

-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			config, err := clientConfig.ClientConfig()
 			errors.CheckError(err)
 			errors.CheckError(v1alpha1.SetK8SConfigDefaults(config))
@@ -161,8 +139,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {

 			repoClientset := apiclient.NewRepoServerClientset(repoServerAddress, repoServerTimeoutSeconds, tlsConfig)

-			commitClientset := commitclient.NewCommitServerClientset(commitServerAddress)
-
 			cache, err := cacheSource()
 			errors.CheckError(err)
 			cache.Cache.SetClient(cacheutil.NewTwoLevelClient(cache.Cache.GetClient(), 10*time.Minute))
@@ -175,35 +151,22 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			kubectl := kubeutil.NewKubectl()
 			clusterSharding, err := sharding.GetClusterSharding(kubeClient, settingsMgr, shardingAlgorithm, enableDynamicClusterDistribution)
 			errors.CheckError(err)
-			var selfHealBackoff *wait.Backoff
-			if selfHealBackoffTimeoutSeconds != 0 {
-				selfHealBackoff = &wait.Backoff{
-					Duration: time.Duration(selfHealBackoffTimeoutSeconds) * time.Second,
-					Factor:   float64(selfHealBackoffFactor),
-					Cap:      time.Duration(selfHealBackoffCapSeconds) * time.Second,
-				}
-			}
 			appController, err = controller.NewApplicationController(
 				namespace,
 				settingsMgr,
 				kubeClient,
 				appClient,
 				repoClientset,
-				commitClientset,
 				cache,
 				kubectl,
 				resyncDuration,
 				hardResyncDuration,
 				time.Duration(appResyncJitter)*time.Second,
 				time.Duration(selfHealTimeoutSeconds)*time.Second,
-				selfHealBackoff,
-				time.Duration(selfHealBackoffCooldownSeconds)*time.Second,
-				time.Duration(syncTimeout)*time.Second,
 				time.Duration(repoErrorGracePeriod)*time.Second,
 				metricsPort,
 				metricsCacheExpiration,
 				metricsAplicationLabels,
-				metricsAplicationConditions,
 				kubectlParallelismLimit,
 				persistResourceHealth,
 				clusterSharding,
@@ -212,11 +175,9 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				serverSideDiff,
 				enableDynamicClusterDistribution,
 				ignoreNormalizerOpts,
-				enableK8sEvent,
-				hydratorEnabled,
 			)
 			errors.CheckError(err)
-			cacheutil.CollectMetrics(redisClient, appController.GetMetricsServer(), nil)
+			cacheutil.CollectMetrics(redisClient, appController.GetMetricsServer())

 			stats.RegisterStackDumper()
 			stats.StartStatsTicker(10 * time.Minute)
@@ -256,7 +217,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().Int64Var(&repoErrorGracePeriod, "repo-error-grace-period-seconds", int64(env.ParseDurationFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_ERROR_GRACE_PERIOD_SECONDS", defaultAppResyncPeriod*time.Second, 0, math.MaxInt64).Seconds()), "Grace period in seconds for ignoring consecutive errors while communicating with repo server.")
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&repoServerAddress, "repo-server", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_REPO_SERVER", common.DefaultRepoServerAddr), "Repo server address.")
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&repoServerTimeoutSeconds, "repo-server-timeout-seconds", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_REPO_SERVER_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 60, 0, math.MaxInt64), "Repo server RPC call timeout seconds.")
-	command.Flags().StringVar(&commitServerAddress, "commit-server", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_COMMIT_SERVER", common.DefaultCommitServerAddr), "Commit server address.")
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&statusProcessors, "status-processors", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_STATUS_PROCESSORS", 20, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Number of application status processors")
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&operationProcessors, "operation-processors", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_OPERATION_PROCESSORS", 10, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Number of application operation processors")
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&cmdutil.LogFormat, "logformat", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_LOGFORMAT", "text"), "Set the logging format. One of: text|json")
@@ -264,17 +224,11 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&glogLevel, "gloglevel", 0, "Set the glog logging level")
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&metricsPort, "metrics-port", common.DefaultPortArgoCDMetrics, "Start metrics server on given port")
 	command.Flags().DurationVar(&metricsCacheExpiration, "metrics-cache-expiration", env.ParseDurationFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_METRICS_CACHE_EXPIRATION", 0*time.Second, 0, math.MaxInt64), "Prometheus metrics cache expiration (disabled  by default. e.g. 24h0m0s)")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&selfHealTimeoutSeconds, "self-heal-timeout-seconds", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SELF_HEAL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 0, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies timeout between application self heal attempts")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&selfHealBackoffTimeoutSeconds, "self-heal-backoff-timeout-seconds", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SELF_HEAL_BACKOFF_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 2, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies initial timeout of exponential backoff between self heal attempts")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&selfHealBackoffFactor, "self-heal-backoff-factor", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SELF_HEAL_BACKOFF_FACTOR", 3, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies factor of exponential timeout between application self heal attempts")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&selfHealBackoffCapSeconds, "self-heal-backoff-cap-seconds", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SELF_HEAL_BACKOFF_CAP_SECONDS", 300, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies max timeout of exponential backoff between application self heal attempts")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&selfHealBackoffCooldownSeconds, "self-heal-backoff-cooldown-seconds", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SELF_HEAL_BACKOFF_COOLDOWN_SECONDS", 330, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies period of time the app needs to stay synced before the self heal backoff can reset")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&syncTimeout, "sync-timeout", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SYNC_TIMEOUT", 0, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies the timeout after which a sync would be terminated. 0 means no timeout (default 0).")
+	command.Flags().IntVar(&selfHealTimeoutSeconds, "self-heal-timeout-seconds", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_SELF_HEAL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", 5, 0, math.MaxInt32), "Specifies timeout between application self heal attempts")
 	command.Flags().Int64Var(&kubectlParallelismLimit, "kubectl-parallelism-limit", env.ParseInt64FromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_KUBECTL_PARALLELISM_LIMIT", 20, 0, math.MaxInt64), "Number of allowed concurrent kubectl fork/execs. Any value less than 1 means no limit.")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&repoServerPlaintext, "repo-server-plaintext", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_REPO_SERVER_PLAINTEXT", false), "Disable TLS on connections to repo server")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&repoServerStrictTLS, "repo-server-strict-tls", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_REPO_SERVER_STRICT_TLS", false), "Whether to use strict validation of the TLS cert presented by the repo server")
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&metricsAplicationLabels, "metrics-application-labels", []string{}, "List of Application labels that will be added to the argocd_application_labels metric")
-	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&metricsAplicationConditions, "metrics-application-conditions", []string{}, "List of Application conditions that will be added to the argocd_application_conditions metric")
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&otlpAddress, "otlp-address", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_OTLP_ADDRESS", ""), "OpenTelemetry collector address to send traces to")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&otlpInsecure, "otlp-insecure", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_OTLP_INSECURE", true), "OpenTelemetry collector insecure mode")
 	command.Flags().StringToStringVar(&otlpHeaders, "otlp-headers", env.ParseStringToStringFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_CONTROLLER_OTLP_HEADERS", map[string]string{}, ","), "List of OpenTelemetry collector extra headers sent with traces, headers are comma-separated key-value pairs(e.g. key1=value1,key2=value2)")
@@ -294,9 +248,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&enableDynamicClusterDistribution, "dynamic-cluster-distribution-enabled", env.ParseBoolFromEnv(common.EnvEnableDynamicClusterDistribution, false), "Enables dynamic cluster distribution.")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&serverSideDiff, "server-side-diff-enabled", env.ParseBoolFromEnv(common.EnvServerSideDiff, false), "Feature flag to enable ServerSide diff. Default (\"false\")")
 	command.Flags().DurationVar(&ignoreNormalizerOpts.JQExecutionTimeout, "ignore-normalizer-jq-execution-timeout-seconds", env.ParseDurationFromEnv("ARGOCD_IGNORE_NORMALIZER_JQ_TIMEOUT", 0*time.Second, 0, math.MaxInt64), "Set ignore normalizer JQ execution timeout")
-	// argocd k8s event logging flag
-	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&enableK8sEvent, "enable-k8s-event", env.StringsFromEnv("ARGOCD_ENABLE_K8S_EVENT", argo.DefaultEnableEventList(), ","), "Enable ArgoCD to use k8s event. For disabling all events, set the value as `none`. (e.g --enable-k8s-event=none), For enabling specific events, set the value as `event reason`. (e.g --enable-k8s-event=StatusRefreshed,ResourceCreated)")
-	command.Flags().BoolVar(&hydratorEnabled, "hydrator-enabled", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_HYDRATOR_ENABLED", false), "Feature flag to enable Hydrator. Default (\"false\")")
 	cacheSource = appstatecache.AddCacheFlagsToCmd(&command, cacheutil.Options{
 		OnClientCreated: func(client *redis.Client) {
 			redisClient = client
--- a/cmd/argocd-applicationset-controller/commands/applicationset_controller.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-applicationset-controller/commands/applicationset_controller.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/argoproj/pkg/stats"
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ import (
 	appsetmetrics "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/metrics"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/applicationset/services"
 	appv1alpha1 "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application/v1alpha1"
+	appclientset "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/client/clientset/versioned"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cli"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/db"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/errors"
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		metricsAplicationsetLabels   []string
 		enableScmProviders           bool
 		webhookParallelism           int
-		tokenRefStrictMode           bool
-		maxResourcesStatusCount      int
 	)
 	scheme := runtime.NewScheme()
 	_ = clientgoscheme.AddToScheme(scheme)
@@ -102,13 +100,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {

 			ctrl.SetLogger(logutils.NewLogrusLogger(logutils.NewWithCurrentConfig()))

-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			restConfig, err := clientConfig.ClientConfig()
 			errors.CheckError(err)

@@ -171,9 +162,10 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			errors.CheckError(err)

 			argoSettingsMgr := argosettings.NewSettingsManager(ctx, k8sClient, namespace)
+			appSetConfig := appclientset.NewForConfigOrDie(mgr.GetConfig())
 			argoCDDB := db.NewDB(namespace, argoSettingsMgr, k8sClient)

-			scmConfig := generators.NewSCMConfig(scmRootCAPath, allowedScmProviders, enableScmProviders, github_app.NewAuthCredentials(argoCDDB.(db.RepoCredsDB)), tokenRefStrictMode)
+			scmConfig := generators.NewSCMConfig(scmRootCAPath, allowedScmProviders, enableScmProviders, github_app.NewAuthCredentials(argoCDDB.(db.RepoCredsDB)))

 			tlsConfig := apiclient.TLSConfiguration{
 				DisableTLS:       repoServerPlaintext,
@@ -219,6 +211,7 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				Renderer:                   &utils.Render{},
 				Policy:                     policyObj,
 				EnablePolicyOverride:       enablePolicyOverride,
+				ArgoAppClientset:           appSetConfig,
 				KubeClientset:              k8sClient,
 				ArgoDB:                     argoCDDB,
 				ArgoCDNamespace:            namespace,
@@ -228,7 +221,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				GlobalPreservedAnnotations: globalPreservedAnnotations,
 				GlobalPreservedLabels:      globalPreservedLabels,
 				Metrics:                    &metrics,
-				MaxResourcesStatusCount:    maxResourcesStatusCount,
 			}).SetupWithManager(mgr, enableProgressiveSyncs, maxConcurrentReconciliations); err != nil {
 				log.Error(err, "unable to create controller", "controller", "ApplicationSet")
 				os.Exit(1)
@@ -260,7 +252,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&allowedScmProviders, "allowed-scm-providers", env.StringsFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ALLOWED_SCM_PROVIDERS", []string{}, ","), "The list of allowed custom SCM provider API URLs. This restriction does not apply to SCM or PR generators which do not accept a custom API URL. (Default: Empty = all)")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&enableScmProviders, "enable-scm-providers", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE_SCM_PROVIDERS", true), "Enable retrieving information from SCM providers, used by the SCM and PR generators (Default: true)")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&dryRun, "dry-run", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_DRY_RUN", false), "Enable dry run mode")
-	command.Flags().BoolVar(&tokenRefStrictMode, "token-ref-strict-mode", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_TOKENREF_STRICT_MODE", false), fmt.Sprintf("Set to true to require secrets referenced by SCM providers to have the %s=%s label set (Default: false)", common.LabelKeySecretType, common.LabelValueSecretTypeSCMCreds))
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&enableProgressiveSyncs, "enable-progressive-syncs", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE_PROGRESSIVE_SYNCS", false), "Enable use of the experimental progressive syncs feature.")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&enableNewGitFileGlobbing, "enable-new-git-file-globbing", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE_NEW_GIT_FILE_GLOBBING", false), "Enable new globbing in Git files generator.")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&repoServerPlaintext, "repo-server-plaintext", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_REPO_SERVER_PLAINTEXT", false), "Disable TLS on connections to repo server")
@@ -272,7 +263,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&globalPreservedLabels, "preserved-labels", env.StringsFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_GLOBAL_PRESERVED_LABELS", []string{}, ","), "Sets global preserved field values for labels")
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&webhookParallelism, "webhook-parallelism-limit", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_WEBHOOK_PARALLELISM_LIMIT", 50, 1, 1000), "Number of webhook requests processed concurrently")
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&metricsAplicationsetLabels, "metrics-applicationset-labels", []string{}, "List of Application labels that will be added to the argocd_applicationset_labels metric")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&maxResourcesStatusCount, "max-resources-status-count", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_MAX_RESOURCES_STATUS_COUNT", 0, 0, math.MaxInt), "Max number of resources stored in appset status.")
 	return &command
 }

@@ -280,7 +270,7 @@ func startWebhookServer(webhookHandler *webhook.WebhookHandler, webhookAddr stri
 	mux := http.NewServeMux()
 	mux.HandleFunc("/api/webhook", webhookHandler.Handler)
 	go func() {
-		log.Infof("Starting webhook server %s", webhookAddr)
+		log.Info("Starting webhook server")
 		err := http.ListenAndServe(webhookAddr, mux)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Error(err, "failed to start webhook server")
--- a/cmd/argocd-cmp-server/commands/argocd_cmp_server.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-cmp-server/commands/argocd_cmp_server.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package commands

 import (
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/argoproj/pkg/stats"
@@ -45,13 +44,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			cli.SetLogFormat(cmdutil.LogFormat)
 			cli.SetLogLevel(cmdutil.LogLevel)

-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			config, err := plugin.ReadPluginConfig(configFilePath)
 			errors.CheckError(err)

--- a/cmd/argocd-commit-server/commands/argocd_commit_server.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-commit-server/commands/argocd_commit_server.go
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-package commands
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"net"
-	"net/http"
-	"os"
-	"os/signal"
-	"sync"
-	"syscall"
-
-	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"google.golang.org/grpc/health/grpc_health_v1"
-
-	cmdutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/cmd/util"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/commitserver"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/commitserver/apiclient"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/commitserver/metrics"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/askpass"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cli"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/env"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/errors"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/healthz"
-	ioutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/io"
-)
-
-// NewCommand returns a new instance of an argocd-commit-server command
-func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	var (
-		listenHost  string
-		listenPort  int
-		metricsPort int
-		metricsHost string
-	)
-	command := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "argocd-commit-server",
-		Short: "Run Argo CD Commit Server",
-		Long:  "Argo CD Commit Server is an internal service which commits and pushes hydrated manifests to git. This command runs Commit Server in the foreground.",
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			vers := common.GetVersion()
-			vers.LogStartupInfo(
-				"Argo CD Commit Server",
-				map[string]any{
-					"port": listenPort,
-				},
-			)
-
-			cli.SetLogFormat(cmdutil.LogFormat)
-			cli.SetLogLevel(cmdutil.LogLevel)
-
-			metricsServer := metrics.NewMetricsServer()
-			http.Handle("/metrics", metricsServer.GetHandler())
-			go func() { errors.CheckError(http.ListenAndServe(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", metricsHost, metricsPort), nil)) }()
-
-			askPassServer := askpass.NewServer(askpass.CommitServerSocketPath)
-			go func() { errors.CheckError(askPassServer.Run()) }()
-
-			server := commitserver.NewServer(askPassServer, metricsServer)
-			grpc := server.CreateGRPC()
-
-			listener, err := net.Listen("tcp", fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", listenHost, listenPort))
-			errors.CheckError(err)
-
-			healthz.ServeHealthCheck(http.DefaultServeMux, func(r *http.Request) error {
-				if val, ok := r.URL.Query()["full"]; ok && len(val) > 0 && val[0] == "true" {
-					// connect to itself to make sure commit server is able to serve connection
-					// used by liveness probe to auto restart commit server
-					conn, err := apiclient.NewConnection(fmt.Sprintf("localhost:%d", listenPort))
-					if err != nil {
-						return err
-					}
-					defer ioutil.Close(conn)
-					client := grpc_health_v1.NewHealthClient(conn)
-					res, err := client.Check(r.Context(), &grpc_health_v1.HealthCheckRequest{})
-					if err != nil {
-						return err
-					}
-					if res.Status != grpc_health_v1.HealthCheckResponse_SERVING {
-						return fmt.Errorf("grpc health check status is '%v'", res.Status)
-					}
-					return nil
-				}
-				return nil
-			})
-
-			// Graceful shutdown code adapted from here: https://gist.github.com/embano1/e0bf49d24f1cdd07cffad93097c04f0a
-			sigCh := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
-			signal.Notify(sigCh, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)
-			wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
-			wg.Add(1)
-			go func() {
-				s := <-sigCh
-				log.Printf("got signal %v, attempting graceful shutdown", s)
-				grpc.GracefulStop()
-				wg.Done()
-			}()
-
-			log.Println("starting grpc server")
-			err = grpc.Serve(listener)
-			errors.CheckError(err)
-			wg.Wait()
-			log.Println("clean shutdown")
-
-			return nil
-		},
-	}
-	command.Flags().StringVar(&cmdutil.LogFormat, "logformat", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_COMMIT_SERVER_LOGFORMAT", "text"), "Set the logging format. One of: text|json")
-	command.Flags().StringVar(&cmdutil.LogLevel, "loglevel", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_COMMIT_SERVER_LOGLEVEL", "info"), "Set the logging level. One of: debug|info|warn|error")
-	command.Flags().StringVar(&listenHost, "address", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_COMMIT_SERVER_LISTEN_ADDRESS", common.DefaultAddressCommitServer), "Listen on given address for incoming connections")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&listenPort, "port", common.DefaultPortCommitServer, "Listen on given port for incoming connections")
-	command.Flags().StringVar(&metricsHost, "metrics-address", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_COMMIT_SERVER_METRICS_LISTEN_ADDRESS", common.DefaultAddressCommitServerMetrics), "Listen on given address for metrics")
-	command.Flags().IntVar(&metricsPort, "metrics-port", common.DefaultPortCommitServerMetrics, "Start metrics server on given port")
-
-	return command
-}
--- a/cmd/argocd-dex/commands/argocd_dex.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-dex/commands/argocd_dex.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"syscall"

 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
@@ -67,14 +66,6 @@ func NewRunDexCommand() *cobra.Command {

 			cli.SetLogFormat(cmdutil.LogFormat)
 			cli.SetLogLevel(cmdutil.LogLevel)
-
-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			_, err = exec.LookPath("dex")
 			errors.CheckError(err)
 			config, err := clientConfig.ClientConfig()
--- a/cmd/argocd-git-ask-pass/commands/argocd_git_ask_pass.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-git-ask-pass/commands/argocd_git_ask_pass.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"google.golang.org/grpc"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/insecure"

-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/askpass"
+	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/askpass"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/errors"
 	grpc_util "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/grpc"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/io"
--- a/cmd/argocd-k8s-auth/commands/azure.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-k8s-auth/commands/azure.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package commands

 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"os"

 	"github.com/Azure/kubelogin/pkg/token"
@@ -20,26 +19,24 @@ const (
 )

 func newAzureCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	o := token.NewOptions()
+	// we'll use default of WorkloadIdentityLogin for the login flow
+	o.LoginMethod = token.WorkloadIdentityLogin
+	o.ServerID = DEFAULT_AAD_SERVER_APPLICATION_ID
 	command := &cobra.Command{
 		Use: "azure",
 		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, args []string) {
-			o := token.OptionsWithEnv()
-			if o.LoginMethod == "" { // no environment variable overrides
-				// we'll use default of WorkloadIdentityLogin for the login flow
-				o.LoginMethod = token.WorkloadIdentityLogin
-			}
-			o.ServerID = DEFAULT_AAD_SERVER_APPLICATION_ID
+			o.UpdateFromEnv()
 			if v, ok := os.LookupEnv(envServerApplicationID); ok {
 				o.ServerID = v
 			}
 			if v, ok := os.LookupEnv(envEnvironmentName); ok {
 				o.Environment = v
 			}
-			tp, err := token.GetTokenProvider(o)
+			plugin, err := token.New(&o)
 			errors.CheckError(err)
-			tok, err := tp.GetAccessToken(c.Context())
+			err = plugin.Do()
 			errors.CheckError(err)
-			_, _ = fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, formatJSON(tok.Token, tok.ExpiresOn))
 		},
 	}
 	return command
--- a/cmd/argocd-notification/commands/controller.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-notification/commands/controller.go
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
 package commands

 import (
-	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
-	"os/signal"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"strings"
-	"sync"
-	"syscall"

 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/apiclient"
@@ -67,8 +62,7 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		Use:   "controller",
 		Short: "Starts Argo CD Notifications controller",
 		RunE: func(c *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-			defer cancel()
+			ctx := c.Context()

 			vers := common.GetVersion()
 			namespace, _, err := clientConfig.Namespace()
@@ -116,13 +110,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				return fmt.Errorf("unknown log format '%s'", logFormat)
 			}

-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			tlsConfig := apiclient.TLSConfiguration{
 				DisableTLS:       argocdRepoServerPlaintext,
 				StrictValidation: argocdRepoServerStrictTLS,
@@ -159,17 +146,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				return fmt.Errorf("failed to initialize controller: %w", err)
 			}

-			sigCh := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
-			signal.Notify(sigCh, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)
-			wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
-			wg.Add(1)
-			go func() {
-				defer wg.Done()
-				s := <-sigCh
-				log.Printf("got signal %v, attempting graceful shutdown", s)
-				cancel()
-			}()
-
 			go ctrl.Run(ctx, processorsCount)
 			<-ctx.Done()
 			return nil
--- a/cmd/argocd-repo-server/commands/argocd_repo_server.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-repo-server/commands/argocd_repo_server.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
@@ -23,10 +22,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/apiclient"
+	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/askpass"
 	reposervercache "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/cache"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/metrics"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/repository"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/askpass"
 	cacheutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cache"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cli"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/env"
@@ -76,7 +75,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		helmRegistryMaxIndexSize          string
 		disableManifestMaxExtractedSize   bool
 		includeHiddenDirectories          bool
-		cmpUseManifestGeneratePaths       bool
 	)
 	command := cobra.Command{
 		Use:               cliName,
@@ -97,13 +95,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			cli.SetLogFormat(cmdutil.LogFormat)
 			cli.SetLogLevel(cmdutil.LogLevel)

-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			if !disableTLS {
 				var err error
 				tlsConfigCustomizer, err = tlsConfigCustomizerSrc()
@@ -130,7 +121,7 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {

 			askPassServer := askpass.NewServer(askpass.SocketPath)
 			metricsServer := metrics.NewMetricsServer()
-			cacheutil.CollectMetrics(redisClient, metricsServer, nil)
+			cacheutil.CollectMetrics(redisClient, metricsServer)
 			server, err := reposerver.NewServer(metricsServer, cache, tlsConfigCustomizer, repository.RepoServerInitConstants{
 				ParallelismLimit: parallelismLimit,
 				PauseGenerationAfterFailedGenerationAttempts: pauseGenerationAfterFailedGenerationAttempts,
@@ -145,7 +136,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				HelmManifestMaxExtractedSize:                 helmManifestMaxExtractedSizeQuantity.ToDec().Value(),
 				HelmRegistryMaxIndexSize:                     helmRegistryMaxIndexSizeQuantity.ToDec().Value(),
 				IncludeHiddenDirectories:                     includeHiddenDirectories,
-				CMPUseManifestGeneratePaths:                  cmpUseManifestGeneratePaths,
 			}, askPassServer)
 			errors.CheckError(err)

@@ -251,7 +241,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&helmRegistryMaxIndexSize, "helm-registry-max-index-size", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_HELM_MANIFEST_MAX_INDEX_SIZE", "1G"), "Maximum size of registry index file")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&disableManifestMaxExtractedSize, "disable-helm-manifest-max-extracted-size", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_DISABLE_HELM_MANIFEST_MAX_EXTRACTED_SIZE", false), "Disable maximum size of helm manifest archives when extracted")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&includeHiddenDirectories, "include-hidden-directories", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_INCLUDE_HIDDEN_DIRECTORIES", false), "Include hidden directories from Git")
-	command.Flags().BoolVar(&cmpUseManifestGeneratePaths, "plugin-use-manifest-generate-paths", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_REPO_SERVER_PLUGIN_USE_MANIFEST_GENERATE_PATHS", false), "Pass the resources described in argocd.argoproj.io/manifest-generate-paths value to the cmpserver to generate the application manifests.")
 	tlsConfigCustomizerSrc = tls.AddTLSFlagsToCmd(&command)
 	cacheSrc = reposervercache.AddCacheFlagsToCmd(&command, cacheutil.Options{
 		OnClientCreated: func(client *redis.Client) {
--- a/cmd/argocd-server/commands/argocd_server.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd-server/commands/argocd_server.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"strings"
 	"time"

@@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ import (
 	reposervercache "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/reposerver/cache"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/server"
 	servercache "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/server/cache"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/argo"
 	cacheutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cache"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cli"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/dex"
@@ -87,16 +85,12 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		applicationNamespaces    []string
 		enableProxyExtension     bool
 		webhookParallelism       int
-		hydratorEnabled          bool

 		// ApplicationSet
 		enableNewGitFileGlobbing bool
 		scmRootCAPath            string
 		allowedScmProviders      []string
 		enableScmProviders       bool
-
-		// argocd k8s event logging flag
-		enableK8sEvent []string
 	)
 	command := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:               cliName,
@@ -121,13 +115,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			cli.SetLogLevel(cmdutil.LogLevel)
 			cli.SetGLogLevel(glogLevel)

-			// Recover from panic and log the error using the configured logger instead of the default.
-			defer func() {
-				if r := recover(); r != nil {
-					log.WithField("trace", string(debug.Stack())).Fatal("Recovered from panic: ", r)
-				}
-			}()
-
 			config, err := clientConfig.ClientConfig()
 			errors.CheckError(err)
 			errors.CheckError(v1alpha1.SetK8SConfigDefaults(config))
@@ -164,7 +151,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			controllerClient, err := client.New(config, client.Options{Scheme: scheme})
 			errors.CheckError(err)
 			controllerClient = client.NewDryRunClient(controllerClient)
-			controllerClient = client.NewNamespacedClient(controllerClient, namespace)

 			// Load CA information to use for validating connections to the
 			// repository server, if strict TLS validation was requested.
@@ -243,8 +229,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				ApplicationNamespaces:   applicationNamespaces,
 				EnableProxyExtension:    enableProxyExtension,
 				WebhookParallelism:      webhookParallelism,
-				EnableK8sEvent:          enableK8sEvent,
-				HydratorEnabled:         hydratorEnabled,
 			}

 			appsetOpts := server.ApplicationSetOpts{
@@ -260,25 +244,22 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			stats.RegisterHeapDumper("memprofile")
 			argocd := server.NewServer(ctx, argoCDOpts, appsetOpts)
 			argocd.Init(ctx)
+			lns, err := argocd.Listen()
+			errors.CheckError(err)
 			for {
 				var closer func()
-				serverCtx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
-				lns, err := argocd.Listen()
-				errors.CheckError(err)
+				ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
 				if otlpAddress != "" {
-					closer, err = traceutil.InitTracer(serverCtx, "argocd-server", otlpAddress, otlpInsecure, otlpHeaders, otlpAttrs)
+					closer, err = traceutil.InitTracer(ctx, "argocd-server", otlpAddress, otlpInsecure, otlpHeaders, otlpAttrs)
 					if err != nil {
 						log.Fatalf("failed to initialize tracing: %v", err)
 					}
 				}
-				argocd.Run(serverCtx, lns)
+				argocd.Run(ctx, lns)
+				cancel()
 				if closer != nil {
 					closer()
 				}
-				cancel()
-				if argocd.TerminateRequested() {
-					break
-				}
 			}
 		},
 		Example: templates.Examples(`
@@ -322,8 +303,6 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&applicationNamespaces, "application-namespaces", env.StringsFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATION_NAMESPACES", []string{}, ","), "List of additional namespaces where application resources can be managed in")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&enableProxyExtension, "enable-proxy-extension", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_SERVER_ENABLE_PROXY_EXTENSION", false), "Enable Proxy Extension feature")
 	command.Flags().IntVar(&webhookParallelism, "webhook-parallelism-limit", env.ParseNumFromEnv("ARGOCD_SERVER_WEBHOOK_PARALLELISM_LIMIT", 50, 1, 1000), "Number of webhook requests processed concurrently")
-	command.Flags().StringSliceVar(&enableK8sEvent, "enable-k8s-event", env.StringsFromEnv("ARGOCD_ENABLE_K8S_EVENT", argo.DefaultEnableEventList(), ","), "Enable ArgoCD to use k8s event. For disabling all events, set the value as `none`. (e.g --enable-k8s-event=none), For enabling specific events, set the value as `event reason`. (e.g --enable-k8s-event=StatusRefreshed,ResourceCreated)")
-	command.Flags().BoolVar(&hydratorEnabled, "hydrator-enabled", env.ParseBoolFromEnv("ARGOCD_HYDRATOR_ENABLED", false), "Feature flag to enable Hydrator. Default (\"false\")")

 	// Flags related to the applicationSet component.
 	command.Flags().StringVar(&scmRootCAPath, "appset-scm-root-ca-path", env.StringFromEnv("ARGOCD_APPLICATIONSET_CONTROLLER_SCM_ROOT_CA_PATH", ""), "Provide Root CA Path for self-signed TLS Certificates")
--- a/cmd/argocd/commands/account.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd/commands/account.go
@@ -16,13 +16,11 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/term"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"

-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/rbac"
-
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/cmd/argocd/commands/headless"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/cmd/argocd/commands/utils"
 	argocdclient "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apiclient"
 	accountpkg "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apiclient/account"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apiclient/session"
+	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/server/rbacpolicy"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cli"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/errors"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/io"
@@ -219,7 +217,7 @@ argocd account can-i create clusters '*'

 Actions: %v
 Resources: %v
-`, rbac.Actions, rbac.Resources),
+`, rbacpolicy.Actions, rbacpolicy.Resources),
 		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 			ctx := c.Context()

@@ -263,7 +261,7 @@ func NewAccountListCommand(clientOpts *argocdclient.ClientOptions) *cobra.Comman
 		Use:     "list",
 		Short:   "List accounts",
 		Example: "argocd account list",
-		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 			ctx := c.Context()

 			conn, client := headless.NewClientOrDie(clientOpts, c).NewAccountClientOrDie()
@@ -310,7 +308,7 @@ argocd account get

 # Get details for an account by name
 argocd account get --account <account-name>`,
-		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 			ctx := c.Context()

 			clientset := headless.NewClientOrDie(clientOpts, c)
@@ -359,7 +357,7 @@ func printAccountDetails(acc *accountpkg.Account) {
 				expiresAt := time.Unix(t.ExpiresAt, 0)
 				expiresAtFormatted = expiresAt.Format(time.RFC3339)
 				if expiresAt.Before(time.Now()) {
-					expiresAtFormatted = expiresAtFormatted + " (expired)"
+					expiresAtFormatted = fmt.Sprintf("%s (expired)", expiresAtFormatted)
 				}
 			}

@@ -383,7 +381,7 @@ argocd account generate-token

 # Generate token for the account with the specified name
 argocd account generate-token --account <account-name>`,
-		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+		Run: func(c *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 			ctx := c.Context()

 			clientset := headless.NewClientOrDie(clientOpts, c)
@@ -434,14 +432,8 @@ argocd account delete-token --account <account-name> ID`,
 			if account == "" {
 				account = getCurrentAccount(ctx, clientset).Username
 			}
-			promptUtil := utils.NewPrompt(clientOpts.PromptsEnabled)
-			canDelete := promptUtil.Confirm(fmt.Sprintf("Are you sure you want to delete '%s' token? [y/n]", id))
-			if canDelete {
-				_, err := client.DeleteToken(ctx, &accountpkg.DeleteTokenRequest{Name: account, Id: id})
-				errors.CheckError(err)
-			} else {
-				fmt.Printf("The command to delete '%s' was cancelled.\n", id)
-			}
+			_, err := client.DeleteToken(ctx, &accountpkg.DeleteTokenRequest{Name: account, Id: id})
+			errors.CheckError(err)
 		},
 	}
 	cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&account, "account", "a", "", "Account name. Defaults to the current account.")
--- a/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/admin.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/admin.go
@@ -190,11 +190,7 @@ func isArgoCDConfigMap(name string) bool {
 // specsEqual returns if the spec, data, labels, annotations, and finalizers of the two
 // supplied objects are equal, indicating that no update is necessary during importing
 func specsEqual(left, right unstructured.Unstructured) bool {
-	leftAnnotation := left.GetAnnotations()
-	rightAnnotation := right.GetAnnotations()
-	delete(leftAnnotation, apiv1.LastAppliedConfigAnnotation)
-	delete(rightAnnotation, apiv1.LastAppliedConfigAnnotation)
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(leftAnnotation, rightAnnotation) {
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(left.GetAnnotations(), right.GetAnnotations()) {
 		return false
 	}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(left.GetLabels(), right.GetLabels()) {
--- a/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/app.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/app.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/argoproj/gitops-engine/pkg/utils/kube"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	apiv1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	v1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
@@ -189,12 +188,12 @@ func NewDiffReconcileResults() *cobra.Command {
 func toUnstructured(val interface{}) (*unstructured.Unstructured, error) {
 	data, err := json.Marshal(val)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error while marhsalling value: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	res := make(map[string]interface{})
 	err = json.Unmarshal(data, &res)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error while unmarhsalling data: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	return &unstructured.Unstructured{Object: res}, nil
 }
@@ -228,7 +227,7 @@ func diffReconcileResults(res1 reconcileResults, res2 reconcileResults) error {
 	for k, v := range resMap2 {
 		secondUn, err := toUnstructured(v)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("error converting second resource of second map to unstructure: %w", err)
+			return err
 		}
 		pairs = append(pairs, diffPair{name: k, first: nil, second: secondUn})
 	}
@@ -339,7 +338,7 @@ func saveToFile(err error, outputFormat string, result reconcileResults, outputP
 func getReconcileResults(ctx context.Context, appClientset appclientset.Interface, namespace string, selector string) ([]appReconcileResult, error) {
 	appsList, err := appClientset.ArgoprojV1alpha1().Applications(namespace).List(ctx, v1.ListOptions{LabelSelector: selector})
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error listing namespaced apps: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
 	}

 	var items []appReconcileResult
@@ -388,13 +387,13 @@ func reconcileApplications(
 		return true
 	}, func(r *http.Request) error {
 		return nil
-	}, []string{}, []string{})
+	}, []string{})
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error starting new metrics server: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	stateCache := createLiveStateCache(argoDB, appInformer, settingsMgr, server)
 	if err := stateCache.Init(); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error initializing state cache: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
 	}

 	cache := appstatecache.NewCache(
@@ -403,30 +402,11 @@ func reconcileApplications(
 	)

 	appStateManager := controller.NewAppStateManager(
-		argoDB,
-		appClientset,
-		repoServerClient,
-		namespace,
-		kubeutil.NewKubectl(),
-		func(_ string) (kube.CleanupFunc, error) {
-			return func() {}, nil
-		},
-		settingsMgr,
-		stateCache,
-		projInformer,
-		server,
-		cache,
-		time.Second,
-		argo.NewResourceTracking(),
-		false,
-		0,
-		serverSideDiff,
-		ignoreNormalizerOpts,
-	)
+		argoDB, appClientset, repoServerClient, namespace, kubeutil.NewKubectl(), settingsMgr, stateCache, projInformer, server, cache, time.Second, argo.NewResourceTracking(), false, 0, serverSideDiff, ignoreNormalizerOpts)

 	appsList, err := appClientset.ArgoprojV1alpha1().Applications(namespace).List(ctx, v1.ListOptions{LabelSelector: selector})
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error listing namespaced apps: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
 	}

 	sort.Slice(appsList.Items, func(i, j int) bool {
@@ -449,7 +429,7 @@ func reconcileApplications(

 		proj, err := projLister.AppProjects(namespace).Get(app.Spec.Project)
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting namespaced project: %w", err)
+			return nil, err
 		}

 		sources := make([]v1alpha1.ApplicationSource, 0)
@@ -459,7 +439,7 @@ func reconcileApplications(

 		res, err := appStateManager.CompareAppState(&app, proj, revisions, sources, false, false, nil, false, false)
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error comparing app states: %w", err)
+			return nil, err
 		}
 		items = append(items, appReconcileResult{
 			Name:       app.Name,
--- a/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/app_test.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/app_test.go
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ func TestGetReconcileResults_Refresh(t *testing.T) {

 	appClientset := appfake.NewSimpleClientset(app, proj)
 	deployment := test.NewDeployment()
-	kubeClientset := kubefake.NewClientset(deployment, &cm)
+	kubeClientset := kubefake.NewSimpleClientset(deployment, &cm)
 	clusterCache := clustermocks.ClusterCache{}
 	clusterCache.On("IsNamespaced", mock.Anything).Return(true, nil)
 	clusterCache.On("GetGVKParser", mock.Anything).Return(nil)
--- a/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/backup.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/backup.go
@@ -16,12 +16,10 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"

-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/cmd/argocd/commands/utils"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/pkg/apis/application"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/cli"
 	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/errors"
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/localconfig"
 	secutil "github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/util/security"
 )

@@ -138,8 +136,6 @@ func NewImportCommand() *cobra.Command {
 		dryRun                   bool
 		verbose                  bool
 		stopOperation            bool
-		ignoreTracking           bool
-		promptsEnabled           bool
 		applicationNamespaces    []string
 		applicationsetNamespaces []string
 	)
@@ -268,13 +264,6 @@ func NewImportCommand() *cobra.Command {
 						continue
 					}
 				}
-
-				// If there is a live object, remove the tracking annotations/label that might conflict
-				// when argo is managed with an application.
-				if ignoreTracking && exists {
-					updateTracking(bakObj, &liveObj)
-				}
-
 				if !exists {
 					isForbidden := false
 					if !dryRun {
@@ -311,8 +300,6 @@ func NewImportCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				}
 			}

-			promptUtil := utils.NewPrompt(promptsEnabled)
-
 			// Delete objects not in backup
 			for key, liveObj := range pruneObjects {
 				if prune {
@@ -340,19 +327,13 @@ func NewImportCommand() *cobra.Command {
 						log.Fatalf("Unexpected kind '%s' in prune list", key.Kind)
 					}
 					isForbidden := false
-
 					if !dryRun {
-						canPrune := promptUtil.Confirm(fmt.Sprintf("Are you sure you want to prune %s/%s %s ? [y/n]", key.Group, key.Kind, key.Name))
-						if canPrune {
-							err = dynClient.Delete(ctx, key.Name, v1.DeleteOptions{})
-							if apierr.IsForbidden(err) || apierr.IsNotFound(err) {
-								isForbidden = true
-								log.Warnf("%s/%s %s: %v\n", key.Group, key.Kind, key.Name, err)
-							} else {
-								errors.CheckError(err)
-							}
+						err = dynClient.Delete(ctx, key.Name, v1.DeleteOptions{})
+						if apierr.IsForbidden(err) || apierr.IsNotFound(err) {
+							isForbidden = true
+							log.Warnf("%s/%s %s: %v\n", key.Group, key.Kind, key.Name, err)
 						} else {
-							fmt.Printf("The command to prune %s/%s %s was cancelled.\n", key.Group, key.Kind, key.Name)
+							errors.CheckError(err)
 						}
 					}
 					if !isForbidden {
@@ -368,12 +349,10 @@ func NewImportCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	clientConfig = cli.AddKubectlFlagsToCmd(&command)
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&dryRun, "dry-run", false, "Print what will be performed")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&prune, "prune", false, "Prune secrets, applications and projects which do not appear in the backup")
-	command.Flags().BoolVar(&ignoreTracking, "ignore-tracking", false, "Do not update the tracking annotation if the resource is already tracked")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&verbose, "verbose", false, "Verbose output (versus only changed output)")
 	command.Flags().BoolVar(&stopOperation, "stop-operation", false, "Stop any existing operations")
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&applicationNamespaces, "application-namespaces", "", []string{}, fmt.Sprintf("Comma separated list of namespace globs to which import of applications is allowed. If not provided value from '%s' in %s will be used,if it's not defined only applications without an explicit namespace will be imported to the Argo CD namespace", applicationNamespacesCmdParamsKey, common.ArgoCDCmdParamsConfigMapName))
 	command.Flags().StringSliceVarP(&applicationsetNamespaces, "applicationset-namespaces", "", []string{}, fmt.Sprintf("Comma separated list of namespace globs which import of applicationsets is allowed. If not provided value from '%s' in %s will be used,if it's not defined only applicationsets without an explicit namespace will be imported to the Argo CD namespace", applicationsetNamespacesCmdParamsKey, common.ArgoCDCmdParamsConfigMapName))
-	command.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&promptsEnabled, "prompts-enabled", localconfig.GetPromptsEnabled(true), "Force optional interactive prompts to be enabled or disabled, overriding local configuration. If not specified, the local configuration value will be used, which is false by default.")

 	return &command
 }
@@ -443,32 +422,3 @@ func updateLive(bak, live *unstructured.Unstructured, stopOperation bool) *unstr
 	}
 	return newLive
 }
-
-// updateTracking will update the tracking label and annotation in the bak resources to the
-// value of the live resource.
-func updateTracking(bak, live *unstructured.Unstructured) {
-	// update the common annotation
-	bakAnnotations := bak.GetAnnotations()
-	liveAnnotations := live.GetAnnotations()
-	if liveAnnotations != nil && bakAnnotations != nil {
-		if v, ok := liveAnnotations[common.AnnotationKeyAppInstance]; ok {
-			if _, ok := bakAnnotations[common.AnnotationKeyAppInstance]; ok {
-				bakAnnotations[common.AnnotationKeyAppInstance] = v
-				bak.SetAnnotations(bakAnnotations)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	// update the common label
-	// A custom label can be set, but it is impossible to know which instance is managing the application
-	bakLabels := bak.GetLabels()
-	liveLabels := live.GetLabels()
-	if liveLabels != nil && bakLabels != nil {
-		if v, ok := liveLabels[common.LabelKeyAppInstance]; ok {
-			if _, ok := bakLabels[common.LabelKeyAppInstance]; ok {
-				bakLabels[common.LabelKeyAppInstance] = v
-				bak.SetLabels(bakLabels)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
--- a/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/backup_test.go
+++ b/cmd/argocd/commands/admin/backup_test.go
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-package admin
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/argoproj/gitops-engine/pkg/utils/kube"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
-
-	"github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/v2/common"
-)
-
-func newBackupObject(trackingValue string, trackingLabel bool, trackingAnnotation bool) *unstructured.Unstructured {
-	cm := v1.ConfigMap{
-		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
-			Name:      "my-configmap",
-			Namespace: "namespace",
-		},
-		Data: map[string]string{
-			"foo": "bar",
-		},
-	}
-	if trackingLabel {
-		cm.SetLabels(map[string]string{
-			common.LabelKeyAppInstance: trackingValue,
-		})
-	}
-	if trackingAnnotation {
-		cm.SetAnnotations(map[string]string{
-			common.AnnotationKeyAppInstance: trackingValue,
-		})
-	}
-	return kube.MustToUnstructured(&cm)
-}
-
-func Test_updateTracking(t *testing.T) {
-	type args struct {
-		bak  *unstructured.Unstructured
-		live *unstructured.Unstructured
-	}
-	tests := []struct {
-		name     string
-		args     args
-		expected *unstructured.Unstructured
-	}{
-		{
-			name: "update annotation when present in live",
-			args: args{
-				bak:  newBackupObject("bak", false, true),
-				live: newBackupObject("live", false, true),
-			},
-			expected: newBackupObject("live", false, true),
-		},
-		{
-			name: "update default label when present in live",
-			args: args{
-				bak:  newBackupObject("bak", true, true),
-				live: newBackupObject("live", true, true),
-			},
-			expected: newBackupObject("live", true, true),
-		},
-		{
-			name: "do not update if live object does not have tracking",
-			args: args{
-				bak:  newBackupObject("bak", true, true),
-				live: newBackupObject("live", false, false),
-			},
-			expected: newBackupObject("bak", true, true),
-		},
-		{
-			name: "do not update if bak object does not have tracking",
-			args: args{
-				bak:  newBackupObject("bak", false, false),
-				live: newBackupObject("live", true, true),
-			},
-			expected: newBackupObject("bak", false, false),
-		},
-	}
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			updateTracking(tt.args.bak, tt.args.live)
-			assert.Equal(t, tt.expected, tt.args.bak)
-		})
-	}
-}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
todaywasawesome	1b52b24cea	Bump pyments version to 2.18 (latest)	2024-09-04 09:19:58 -06:00
todaywasawesome	8eb00f51df	Update pygments to 2.15.1 Signed-off-by: todaywasawesome <dan@codefresh.io>	2024-09-04 08:53:03 -06:00
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