diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 63fec9dd86..873b21d33b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Adding a new version? You'll need three changes:
 * Add the diff link, like "[2.7.0]: https://github.com/kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/compare/v1.2.2...v1.2.3".
   This is all the way at the bottom. It's the thing we always forget.
 --->
+ - [2.12.3](#2123)
+ - [2.12.2](#2122)
+ - [2.12.1](#2121)
  - [2.12.0](#2120)
  - [2.11.1](#2111)
  - [2.11.0](#2110)
@@ -75,7 +78,68 @@ Adding a new version? You'll need three changes:
  - [0.0.5](#005)
  - [0.0.4 and prior](#004-and-prior)
 
-## 2.12.0
+## [2.12.3]
+
+> Release date: TBD
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix(manager): set InitCacheSyncDuration to 5s by default and allow it to be configured via cli.
+  [#5238](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5238)
+- Don't set `instance_name` of plugin if Kong version is below 3.2.0.
+  [#5250](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5250)
+- Added `--emit-kubernetes-events` CLI flag to disable the creation of events
+  in translating and applying configurations to Kong.
+  [#5296](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5296)
+  [#5299](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5299)
+
+## [2.12.2]
+
+> Release date: 2023-11-22
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Using an Ingress with annotation `konghq.com/rewrite` and another Ingress without it pointing to the same Service,
+  will no longer cause synchronization loop and random request failures due to incorrect routing.
+  [#5215](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5215)
+- Using the same Service in one Ingress as a target for ingress rule and default backend works without issues.
+  [#5217](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5217)
+
+### Known issues
+
+- **Only when combined routes are not enabled**, generated Kong routes may have conflicting names, that leads to
+  incorrect routing. In such case the descriptive error message is now provided. Use feature gate `CombinedRoutes=true`
+  or update Kong Kubernetes Ingress Controller version to 3.0.0 or above (both remediation changes naming schema of Kong routes).
+  [#5198](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/issues/5198)
+
+## [2.12.1]
+
+> Release date: 2023-11-09
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Credentials Secrets that are not referenced by any KongConsumer but violate the KongConsumer
+  basic level validation (invalid credential type or missing required fields) are now rejected
+  by the admission webhook.
+  [#4887](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/4887)
+- Error logs emitted from Gateway Discovery readiness checker that should be
+  logged at `debug` level are now logged at that level.
+  [#5030](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5030)
+- Fix `panic` when last known configuration fetcher gets a `nil` Status when requesting
+  `/status` from Kong Gateway.
+  This happens when Gateway is responding with a 50x HTTP status code.
+  [#5120](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5120)
+- Use 46 bits in values of priorities of generated Kong routes when expression
+  rotuer is enabled to limit the priorities to be less than `1e14`. This
+  prevents them to be encoded into scientific notation when dumping
+  configurations from admin API that brings precision loss and type
+  inconsistency in decoding JSON/YAML data to `uint64`.
+  This change will limit number of `HTTPRoute`s that can be
+  deterministically sorted by their creation timestamps, names and internal
+  rule orders to `2^12=4096` and number of `GRPCRoutes` can be sorted to `2^8=256`.
+  [#5124](https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/pull/5124)
+
+## [2.12.0]
 
 > Release date: 2023-09-25
 
diff --git a/docs/cli-arguments.md b/docs/cli-arguments.md
index 26bfb0aa82..adee97371b 100644
--- a/docs/cli-arguments.md
+++ b/docs/cli-arguments.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 | `--dump-sensitive-config` | `bool` | Include credentials and TLS secrets in configs exposed with --dump-config. | `false` |
 | `--election-id` | `string` | Election id to use for status update. | `5b374a9e.konghq.com` |
 | `--election-namespace` | `string` | Leader election namespace to use when running outside a cluster. |  |
+| `--emit-kubernetes-events` | `bool` | Emit Kubernetes events for successful configuration applies, translation failures and configuration apply failures on managed objects. | `true` |
 | `--enable-controller-ingress-class-networkingv1` | `bool` | Enable the networking.k8s.io/v1 IngressClass controller. | `true` |
 | `--enable-controller-ingress-class-parameters` | `bool` | Enable the IngressClassParameters controller. | `true` |
 | `--enable-controller-ingress-networkingv1` | `bool` | Enable the networking.k8s.io/v1 Ingress controller. | `true` |
@@ -81,5 +82,5 @@
 | `--term-delay` | `duration` | The time delay to sleep before SIGTERM or SIGINT will shut down the Ingress Controller. | `0s` |
 | `--update-status` | `bool` | Indicates if the ingress controller should update the status of resources (e.g. IP/Hostname for v1.Ingress, e.t.c.). | `true` |
 | `--update-status-queue-buffer-size` | `int` | Buffer size of the underlying channels used to update the status of resources. | `8192` |
-| `--watch-namespace` | `stringSlice` | Namespace(s) to watch for Kubernetes resources. Defaults to all namespaces. To watch multiple namespaces, use a comma-separated list of namespaces. | `[]` |
+| `--watch-namespace` | `stringSlice` | Namespace(s) in comma-separated format (or specify this flag multiple times) to watch for Kubernetes resources. Defaults to all namespaces. | `[]` |
 
diff --git a/internal/manager/config.go b/internal/manager/config.go
index c372c39b9a..e4e5eea19e 100644
--- a/internal/manager/config.go
+++ b/internal/manager/config.go
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	WatchNamespaces          []string
 	GatewayAPIControllerName string
 	Impersonate              string
+	EmitKubernetesEvents     bool
 
 	// Ingress status
 	PublishServiceUDP       OptionalNamespacedName
@@ -199,7 +200,8 @@ func (c *Config) FlagSet() *pflag.FlagSet {
 	flagSet.StringSliceVar(&c.FilterTags, "kong-admin-filter-tag", []string{"managed-by-ingress-controller"}, "The tag used to manage and filter entities in Kong. This flag can be specified multiple times to specify multiple tags. This setting will be silently ignored if the Kong instance has no tags support.")
 	flagSet.IntVar(&c.Concurrency, "kong-admin-concurrency", 10, "Max number of concurrent requests sent to Kong's Admin API.")
 	flagSet.StringSliceVar(&c.WatchNamespaces, "watch-namespace", nil,
-		`Namespace(s) to watch for Kubernetes resources. Defaults to all namespaces. To watch multiple namespaces, use a comma-separated list of namespaces.`)
+		`Namespace(s) in comma-separated format (or specify this flag multiple times) to watch for Kubernetes resources. Defaults to all namespaces.`)
+	flagSet.BoolVar(&c.EmitKubernetesEvents, "emit-kubernetes-events", true, `Emit Kubernetes events for successful configuration applies, translation failures and configuration apply failures on managed objects.`)
 
 	// Ingress status
 	flagSet.Var(flags.NewValidatedValue(&c.PublishService, namespacedNameFromFlagValue, nnTypeNameOverride), "publish-service",
diff --git a/internal/manager/run.go b/internal/manager/run.go
index 700e43ae6d..730ba9d627 100644
--- a/internal/manager/run.go
+++ b/internal/manager/run.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/go-logr/logr"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/record"
 	ctrl "sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/healthz"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/manager"
@@ -138,7 +139,15 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, c *Config, diagnostic util.ConfigDumpDiagnostic, d
 	}
 
 	setupLog.Info("Initializing Dataplane Client")
-	eventRecorder := mgr.GetEventRecorderFor(KongClientEventRecorderComponentName)
+	var eventRecorder record.EventRecorder
+	if c.EmitKubernetesEvents {
+		setupLog.Info("Emitting Kubernetes events enabled, creating an event recorder for " + KongClientEventRecorderComponentName)
+		eventRecorder = mgr.GetEventRecorderFor(KongClientEventRecorderComponentName)
+	} else {
+		setupLog.Info("Emitting Kubernetes events disabled, discarding all events")
+		// Create an empty record.FakeRecorder with no Events channel to discard all events.
+		eventRecorder = &record.FakeRecorder{}
+	}
 
 	readinessChecker := clients.NewDefaultReadinessChecker(adminAPIClientsFactory, setupLog.WithName("readiness-checker"))
 	clientsManager, err := clients.NewAdminAPIClientsManager(