diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md b/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d47fab3c..3b9f970f0 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,11 +4,16 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- Add the Cargo features `kube-http-proxy` and `kube-socks5` that enable the `http-proxy` and `socks5` features on the `kube` crate ([#1269]).
+
 ### Changed
 
 - BREAKING: `ClusterResources` now warns about `objectOverrides` entries that did not match any of the objects it created.  To enable this, the signatures of `apply_deep_merge` and `ObjectOverrides::apply_to` needed to be adjusted ([#1264]).
 
 [#1264]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1264
+[#1269]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1269
 
 ## [0.116.0] - 2026-08-14
 
diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/Cargo.toml b/crates/stackable-operator/Cargo.toml
index 6b49310de..dd2f4380b 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-operator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ repository.workspace = true
 
 [features]
 default = ["crds"]
-full = ["client-feature-gates", "crds", "certs", "test-support", "time", "webhook", "kube-ws", "kube-cel"]
+full = ["client-feature-gates", "crds", "certs", "test-support", "time", "webhook", "kube-ws", "kube-cel", "kube-http-proxy", "kube-socks5"]
 
 client-feature-gates = ["dep:winnow"]
 crds = ["dep:stackable-versioned"]
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ time = ["stackable-shared/time"]
 webhook = ["dep:stackable-webhook"]
 kube-ws = ["kube/ws"]
 kube-cel = ["kube/cel"]
+kube-http-proxy = ["kube/http-proxy"]
+kube-socks5 = ["kube/socks5"]
 
 [dependencies]
 stackable-certs = { path = "../stackable-certs", optional = true }