v1.7.1

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.30.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.30.x

More information about version support can be found here

Highlights

• Kubernetes v1.30 is now supported

Changes since v1.7.0

📈 Overview

• 11 new commits merged
• 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CAPD: Verify lb config after writing it (#10461)
• e2e: also gather junit reports in case of errors observed from ginkgo (#10494)

🌱 Others

• Dependency: Bump envtest to v1.30.0 (#10481)
• e2e: Export more func in test/e2e/common.go (#10447)
• Testing: Bump Kubernetes in tests to v1.30.0 and claim support for v1.30 (#10465)

📖 Additionally, there have been 6 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10446, #10448, #10451, #10456, #10470, #10491)

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

Nothing has changed.

Removed

Nothing has changed.

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.7.0

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Highlights

• MachinePool: promoted to beta and enabled per default (#10141)
• MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts (#10223)
• MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation (#10202)
• KCP improvements:
  • Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
  • Defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
  • Prefer deletion of Machines with unhealthy control plane components during rollout (#10421)
• ClusterClass:
  • Add variable metadata (#10308)
  • Improved version validation if an update is already in progress (#10063)
  • Improved unit and e2e test coverage for ClusterClass with MachinePools (#10028)
• Various improvements to our e2e tests to increase test coverage and reduce flakes to improve our CI signal
• Implemented prowjob-gen to make it easier to manage our ProwJobs (#9937)

Changes since v1.6.0

📈 Overview

• 339 new commits merged
• 5 breaking changes ⚠️
• 12 feature additions ✨
• 48 bugs fixed 🐛

📝 Proposals

• MachinePool: Update MachinePool Machines proposal with diagrams (#9664)

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.17.0 & k8s.io/*v0.29 (#9964)
• Logging: Make event recorder names consistent for KCP and topology controller (#9862)
• MachinePool: Set MachinePool feature flag default to true + Beta (#10141)
• KCP/MachineSet: Objects generated by KCP, MachineSets and MachinePools will now consistently use machine name (#9833)

✨ New Features

• API: Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
• clusterctl: Add k0smotron provider (#9991)
• clusterctl: Add public function to create new CRD migrator (#10075)
• Control-plane: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9871)
• MachineDeployment: Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment (#9262)
• MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts (#10223)
• MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation (#10202)
• Release: Add dependencies section to release notes tool (#10043)
• Release: Add release notes expander functionality (#10091)
• Release: Add utility to create git issues on provider repo (#9110)
• Testing: Resolve release markers (#9265)
• Testing: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9872)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• API: Use ptr instead of own implementation (#10276)
• API: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#9939 #10147) (for more details see #10051)
• CABPK: Only refresh bootstrap token if needed, requeue in all cases where node hasn't joined yet (#9229)
• CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9894)
• CAPD: Remove --enable-hostpath-provisioner flag (#10271)
• CAPD: Remove duplicate fix for btrfs/zfs support (#8376)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#9543)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Use RequeueAfter instead of immediate requeue on ErrClusterLocked to not have exponentially increasing requeue time (#9810)
• ClusterClass: Fix for TestServerSideApplyWithDefaulting (#10307)
• ClusterClass: Improve handling of topology orphaned objects (#10277)
• clusterctl: Move handlePlugins function call out of init to allow debugging tests (#10200)
• clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9808)
• clusterctl: Verify that there is a release for the tag (#10423)
• ClusterResourceSet: Requeue after 1 minute if ErrClusterLocked got hit (#9777)
• Control-plane: KCP should defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
• Devtools: Show default cluster-template (#9820)
• e2e: Add wait for MachineList to be available (#10301)
• e2e: fix unset GINKGO_FOCUS variable (#10085)
• e2e: Fix clusterctl upgrade e2e tests (enable CRS) (#10340)
• e2e: Fix kubetest to allow parallel execution on different clusters (#10426)
• e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9960)
• e2e: Re-introduce exclude capi-webhook-system to fix test flake (#10157)
• e2e: Calculate correct worker count in clusterctl upgrade test (#9892)
• e2e: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#9891)
• e2e: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10201)
• IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9861)
• KCP: Delete out of date machines with unhealthy control plane component conditions when rolling out KCP (#10421)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#9857)
• Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9813)
• Machine: Bubble up machine drain condition in MachinesReadyCondition (#9355)
• Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10041)
• MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9745)
• MachineSet: deletion priority to avoid deleting too many machines (#10430)
• Release: Fix Community meeting area formatting in release notes (#9784)
• Release: Fix defaulting logic in release notes tool (#9958)
• Release: Fix documentation area comparison in release notes (#9769)
• Release: Fix kubeadm bootstrap prefix in release notes (#9814)
• Release: Fix wrong branch name display for weekly update script (#9918)
• Runtime SDK: Fix ClusterClass variables status & RuntimeExtension and add test coverage (#10337)
• Runtime SDK: Use keys/values structured log interface (#9998)
• Testing: Fix using correct testing.T when creating gomega object (#10342)
• Testing: Revert "Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller" (#9985)
• Testing: Reverting ginkgo.show-node-events to ginkgo.progress (#10214)
• Testing: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9914)
• Testing: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9819)
• util: Add tests and update provider_issues.go (#10264)
• util: Checking cert's keypair for nil before accessing to avoid panics (#10368)
• util: recover gvk after scheme.Convert (#10409)

🌱 Others

• API: Stop relying on GVK being set on regular typed objects (#9956)
• Bootstrap: Add MachinePool test for switching bootstrap config to another ready/non-ready object with different name (#9616)
• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10208)
• CAPD: make docker machine bootstrap timeout configurable (#9952)
• CAPD: Remove requeues in DockerMachinePool (#9725)
• CAPD: Support configuring ExtraPortMappings for the kind cluster (#10046)
• CAPIM: Add namespaces to the list of resource handled by the in-memory API server (#10297)
• CAPIM: Allow using different resource group and listener name with the in memory server (#10096)
• CAPIM: Make in memory API server more tolerant when starting (#10211)
• CAPIM: Make in memory runtime and server accessible from outside (#9986)
• CAPIM: use port only to identify the wcl to make port-forward… (#10245)
• CI: Add fail fast to DumpResourcesForCluster in case of no route to host (#10204)
• CI: Add more templating func to prowjob-gen (#10403)
• CI: Added go directive test (#10261)
• CI: Bump conversion-gen to v0.29.0 (#10012)
• CI: Bump go-apidiff to v0.8.2 (#10011)
• CI: Bump govulncheck to v1.0.4 (#10274)
• CI: Bump kpromo to v4.0.5 (#10140)
• CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10013)
• CI: Change base branch for link checker (#10365)
• CI: DumpResourcesForCluster should fail fast for i/o errors (#10238)
• CI: Ensure build images contains correct binary and for correct architecture (#9932)
• CI: Fix Make target generate-go-openapi (#10161)
• CI: Fix TestPatchNode flake (#10287)
• CI: Hack/prowjob-gen skip creating empty files (#10022)
• CI: implement generator for prowjobs (#9937)
• CI: Makefile bump dependencies (#10236)
• CI: Bump WorkloadKubernetesVersion for v1.6 clusterctl upgrade test (#10017)
• CI: adjust capd dockerfile so the binary exposes the package in the built binraries path variable (#10030)
• CI: Update GH actions to work with new release-1.6 branch (#9708)
• ClusterClass: Add ClusterClass variables metadata (#10308)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools for webhooks and cc controller (#10055)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools in topology/scope package (#10052)
• ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10063)
• ClusterClass: use the alias for ClusterCacheTrackerReader instead of the internal reference (#10309)
• clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10203)
• clusterctl: Add completion for fish shell (#9950)
• clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
• clusterctl: Add in-cluster ipam provider (#8811)
• clusterctl: Add Proxmox provider quickstart (#9798)
• clusterctl: Better verbose logging on override path (#10180)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.2 (#10126)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10267)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.1 (#10113)
• clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#9975)
• clusterctl: Deprecate clusterctl alpha topology plan (#10139)
• clusterctl: Replace context.TODO() from clusterctl proxy.go (#9776)
• Community meeting: Move CecileRobertMichon to emeritus (#10042)
• Community meeting: Move ykakarap to emeritus approvers (#10000)
• Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintainer (#9997)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/docker/docker from 24.0.7 -> 25.0.0 (#10057)
• Dependency: Bump golangci-lint to v1.56.1 (#10124)
• Depe...

v1.6.4

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.25.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.23.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.3

📈 Overview

• 21 new commits merged
• 8 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CI: Fix for TestServerSideApplyWithDefaulting (#10327)
• ClusterClass: Improve handling of topology orphaned objects (#10326)
• e2e: Fix kubetest to allow parallel execution on different clusters (#10427)
• KCP: Delete out of date machines with unhealthy control plane component conditions when rolling out KCP (#10196)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#10303)
• MachineSet: deletion priority to avoid deleting too many machines (#10431)
• Runtime SDK: Fix ClusterClass variables status & RuntimeExtension and add test coverage (#10341)

🌱 Others

• CI: Added go directive test (#10348)
• CI: Set linkchecker base branch to release-1.6 (#10359)
• ClusterClass: Add ClusterClass variables metadata (#10320)
• ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10318)
• ClusterClass: use the alias for ClusterCacheTrackerReader instead of the internal reference (#10319)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10272)
• Dependency: Bump docker to address CVE (#10313)
• Dependency: Bump golang to v1.21.9 and golang.org/x/net to mitigate CVE-2023-45288 (#10376)

📖 Additionally, there have been 5 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10295, #10338, #10394, #10404, #10416)

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

• golang.org/x/crypto: v0.17.0 → v0.21.0
• golang.org/x/net: v0.18.0 → v0.23.0
• golang.org/x/sys: v0.15.0 → v0.18.0
• golang.org/x/term: v0.15.0 → v0.18.0

Removed

Nothing has changed.

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.5.8

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.28.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.22.x -> v1.28.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.5.7

📈 Overview

• 11 new commits merged
• 5 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CI: Fix for TestServerSideApplyWithDefaulting (#10344)
• ClusterClass: Improve handling of topology orphaned objects (#10347)
• e2e: fix kubetest to allow parallel execution on different clusters (#10432)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#10304)
• MachineSet: deletion priority to avoid deleting too many machines (#10429)

🌱 Others

• CI: Added go directive test (#10349)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10273)
• Dependency: Bump docker to address CVE (#10316)
• Dependency: Bump golang to v1.21.9 and golang.org/x/net to mitigate CVE-2023-45288 (#10377)

📖 Additionally, there have been 2 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10296, #10339)

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

• golang.org/x/crypto: v0.17.0 → v0.21.0
• golang.org/x/net: v0.17.0 → v0.23.0
• golang.org/x/sys: v0.15.0 → v0.18.0
• golang.org/x/term: v0.15.0 → v0.18.0

Removed

Nothing has changed.

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.7.0-rc.1

🚨 This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an issue.

Highlights

• Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation
• Add public function to create new CRD migrator
• Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment
• Set MachinePool feature flag default to true + Beta

Changes since v1.7.0-rc.0

📈 Overview

• 8 new commits merged
• 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• util: Checking cert's keypair for nil before accessing to avoid panics (#10368)
• util: recover gvk after scheme.Convert (#10409)

🌱 Others

• CI: Add more templating func to prowjob-gen (#10403)
• CI: Change base branch for link checker (#10365)
• Dependency: Bump golang to v1.21.9 and golang.org/x/net to mitigate CVE-2023-45288 (#10378)
• Dependency: Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.17.2 to 0.17.3 (#10406)
• Release: also detect alpha releases as pre releases (#10379)

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

• golang.org/x/net: v0.22.0 → v0.23.0
• sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime: v0.17.2 → v0.17.3

Removed

Nothing has changed.

More details about the release

⚠️ RELEASE CANDIDATE NOTES ⚠️

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.0

📈 Overview

• 333 new commits merged
• 5 breaking changes ⚠️
• 12 feature additions ✨
• 44 bugs fixed 🐛

📝 Proposals

• MachinePool: Update MachinePool Machines proposal with diagrams (#9664)

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• API: Remove v1alpha4 API Version (#9939)
• Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.17.0 & k8s.io v0.29 (#9964)
• Logging: Make event recorder names consistent for KCP and topology controller (#9862)
• MachinePool: Set MachinePool feature flag default to true + Beta (#10141)
• KCP/MachineSet: Objects generated by KCP, MachineSets and MachinePools will now consistently use machine name (#9833)

✨ New Features

• API: Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
• clusterctl: Add k0smotron provider (#9991)
• clusterctl: Add public function to create new CRD migrator (#10075)
• Control-plane: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9871)
• MachineDeployment: Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment (#9262)
• MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts (#10223)
• MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation (#10202)
• Release: Add dependencies section to release notes tool (#10043)
• Release: Add release notes expander functionality (#10091)
• Release: Add utility to create git issues on provider repo (#9110)
• Testing: Resolve release markers (#9265)
• Testing: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9872)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• API: Use ptr instead of own implementation (#10276)
• API/e2e: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#10147)
• CABPK: Only refresh bootstrap token if needed, requeue in all cases where node hasn't joined yet (#9229)
• CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9894)
• CAPD: Remove --enable-hostpath-provisioner flag (#10271)
• CAPD: Remove duplicate fix for btrfs/zfs support (#8376)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#9543)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Use RequeueAfter instead of immediate requeue on ErrClusterLocked to not have exponentially increasing requeue time (#9810)
• ClusterClass: Fix for TestServerSideApplyWithDefaulting (#10307)
• ClusterClass: Improve handling of topology orphaned objects (#10277)
• clusterctl: Move handlePlugins function call out of init to allow debugging tests (#10200)
• clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9808)
• ClusterResourceSet: Requeue after 1 minute if ErrClusterLocked got hit (#9777)
• Control-plane: KCP should defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
• Devtools: Show default cluster-template (#9820)
• e2e: Add wait for MachineList to be available (#10301)
• e2e: fix unset GINKGO_FOCUS variable (#10085)
• e2e: Fix clusterctl upgrade e2e tests (enable CRS) (#10340)
• e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9960)
• e2e: Re-introduce exclude capi-webhook-system to fix test flake (#10157)
• e2e: Calculate correct worker count in clusterctl upgrade test (#9892)
• e2e: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#9891)
• e2e: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10201)
• IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9861)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#9857)
• Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9813)
• Machine: Bubble up machine drain condition in MachinesReadyCondition (#9355)
• Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10041)
• MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9745)
• Release: Fix Community meeting area formatting in release notes (#9784)
• Release: Fix defaulting logic in release notes tool (#9958)
• Release: Fix documentation area comparison in release notes (#9769)
• Release: Fix kubeadm bootstrap prefix in release notes (#9814)
• Release: Fix wrong branch name display for weekly update script (#9918)
• Runtime SDK: Fix ClusterClass variables status & RuntimeExtension and add test coverage (#10337)
• Runtime SDK: Use keys/values structured log interface (#9998)
• Testing: Fix using corerect testing.T when creating gomega object (#10342)
• Testing: Revert "Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller" (#9985)
• Testing: Reverting ginkgo.show-node-events to ginkgo.progress (#10214)
• Testing: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9914)
• Testing: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9819)
• util: Add tests and update provider_issues.go (#10264)
• util: Checking cert's keypair for nil before accessing to avoid panics (#10368)
• util: recover gvk after scheme.Convert

🌱 Others

• API: Stop relying on GVK being set on regular typed objects (#9956)
• Bootstrap: Add MachinePool test for switching bootstrap config to another ready/non-ready object with different name (#9616)
• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10208)
• CAPD: make docker machine bootstrap timeout configurable (#9952)
• CAPD: Remove requeues in DockerMachinePool (#9725)
• CAPD: Support configuring ExtraPortMappings for the kind cluster (#10046)
• CAPIM: Add namespaces to the list of resource handled by the in-memory API server (#10297)
• CAPIM: Allow using different resource group and listener name with the in memory server (#10096)
• CAPIM: Make in memory API server more tolerant when starting (#10211)
• CAPIM: Make in memory runtime and server accessible from outside (#9986)
• CAPIM: use port only to identify the wcl to make port-forward… (#10245)
• CI: Add fail fast to DumpResourcesForCluster in case of no route to host (#10204)
• CI: Add more templating func to prowjob-gen (#10403)
• CI: Added go directive test (#10261)
• CI: Bump conversion-gen to v0.29.0 (#10012)
• CI: Bump go-apidiff to v0.8.2 (#10011)
• CI: Bump govulncheck to v1.0.4 (#10274)
• CI: Bump kpromo to v4.0.5 (#10140)
• CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10013)
• CI: Change base branch for link checker (#10365)
• CI: DumpResourcesForCluster should fail fast for i/o errors (#10238)
• CI: Ensure build images contains correct binary and for correct architecture (#9932)
• CI: Fix Make target generate-go-openapi (#10161)
• CI: Fix TestPatchNode flake (#10287)
• CI: Hack/prowjob-gen skip creating empty files (#10022)
• CI: implement generator for prowjobs (#9937)
• CI: Makefile: bump dependencies (#10236)
• CI: bump WorkloadKubernetesVersion for v1.6 clusterctl upgrade test (#10017)
• CI: adjust capd dockerfile so the binary exposes the package in the built binraries path variable (#10030)
• CI: Update GH actions to work with new release-1.6 branch (#9708)
• ClusterClass: Add ClusterClass variables metadata (#10308)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools for webhooks and cc controller (#10055)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools in topology/scope package (#10052)
• ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10063)
• ClusterClass: use the alias for ClusterCacheTrackerReader instead of the internal reference (#10309)
• clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10203)
• clusterctl: Add completion for fish shell (#9950)
• clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
• clusterctl: Add in-cluster ipam provider (#8811)
• clusterctl: Add Proxmox provider quickstart (#9798)
• clusterctl: Better verbose logging on override path (#10180)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.2 (#10126)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10267)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.1 (#10113)
• clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#9975)
• clusterctl: Deprecate clusterctl alpha topology plan (#10139)
• clusterctl: Replace context.TODO() from clusterctl proxy.go (#9776)
• Community meeting: Move CecileRobertMichon to emeritus (#10042)
• Community meeting: Move ykakarap to emeritus approvers (#10000)
• Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintainer (#9997)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/docker/docker from ...

v1.7.0-rc.0

🚨 This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an issue.

Highlights

• Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation
• Add public function to create new CRD migrator
• Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment

Changes since v1.7.0-beta.1

📈 Overview

• 16 new commits merged
• 1 breaking change ⚠️
• 1 feature addition ✨
• 5 bugs fixed 🐛

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• MachinePool: Set MachinePool feature flag default to true + Beta (#10141)

✨ New Features

• Release: Add release notes expander functionality (#10091)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ClusterClass: Fix for TestServerSideApplyWithDefaulting (#10307)
• ClusterClass: Improve handling of topology orphaned objects (#10277)
• e2e: Fix clusterctl upgrade e2e tests (enable CRS) (#10340)
• Runtime SDK: Fix ClusterClass variables status & RuntimeExtension and add test coverage (#10337)
• Testing: Fix using corerect testing.T when creating gomega object (#10342)

🌱 Others

• Release: Determine release type from tag to also handle beta releases (#10324)
• Runtime SDK: Enable integration tests of RuntimeExtensions (#10330)

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

• go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3: v3.5.12 → v3.5.13
• go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3: v3.5.12 → v3.5.13
• go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3: v3.5.12 → v3.5.13

Removed

Nothing has changed.

More details about the release

⚠️ RELEASE CANDIDATE NOTES ⚠️

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.0

📈 Overview

• 323 new commits merged
• 5 breaking changes ⚠️
• 12 feature additions ✨
• 42 bugs fixed 🐛

📝 Proposals

• MachinePool: Update MachinePool Machines proposal with diagrams (#9664)

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• API: Remove v1alpha4 API Version (#9939)
• Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.17.0 & k8s.io v0.29 (#9964)
• Logging: Make event recorder names consistent for KCP and topology controller (#9862)
• MachinePool: Set MachinePool feature flag default to true + Beta (#10141)
• KCP/MachineSet: Objects generated by KCP, MachineSets and MachinePools will now consistently use machine name (#9833)

✨ New Features

• API: Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
• clusterctl: Add k0smotron provider (#9991)
• clusterctl: Add public function to create new CRD migrator (#10075)
• Control-plane: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9871)
• MachineDeployment: Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment (#9262)
• MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts (#10223)
• MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation (#10202)
• Release: Add utility to create git issues on provider repo (#9110)
• Release: Add dependencies section to release notes tool (#10043)
• Release: Add release notes expander functionality (#10091)
• Testing: Resolve release markers (#9265)
• Testing: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9872)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• API: Use ptr instead of own implementation (#10276)
• API/e2e: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#10147)
• CABPK: Only refresh bootstrap token if needed, requeue in all cases where node hasn't joined yet (#9229)
• CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9894)
• CAPD: Remove --enable-hostpath-provisioner flag (#10271)
• CAPD: Remove duplicate fix for btrfs/zfs support (#8376)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#9543)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Use RequeueAfter instead of immediate requeue on ErrClusterLocked to not have exponentially increasing requeue time (#9810)
• ClusterClass: Fix for TestServerSideApplyWithDefaulting (#10307)
• ClusterClass: Improve handling of topology orphaned objects (#10277)
• clusterctl: Move handlePlugins function call out of init to allow debugging tests (#10200)
• clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9808)
• ClusterResourceSet: Requeue after 1 minute if ErrClusterLocked got hit (#9777)
• Control-plane: KCP should defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
• Devtools: Show default cluster-template (#9820)
• e2e: Add wait for MachineList to be available (#10301)
• e2e: fix unset GINKGO_FOCUS variable (#10085)
• e2e: Fix clusterctl upgrade e2e tests (enable CRS) (#10340)
• e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9960)
• e2e: Re-introduce exclude capi-webhook-system to fix test flake (#10157)
• e2e: Calculate correct worker count in clusterctl upgrade test (#9892)
• e2e: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#9891)
• e2e: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10201)
• IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9861)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#9857)
• Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9813)
• Machine: Bubble up machine drain condition in MachinesReadyCondition (#9355)
• Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10041)
• MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9745)
• Release: Fix Community meeting area formatting in release notes (#9784)
• Release: Fix defaulting logic in release notes tool (#9958)
• Release: Fix documentation area comparison in release notes (#9769)
• Release: Fix kubeadm bootstrap prefix in release notes (#9814)
• Release: Fix wrong branch name display for weekly update script (#9918)
• Runtime SDK: Fix ClusterClass variables status & RuntimeExtension and add test coverage (#10337)
• Runtime SDK: Use keys/values structured log interface (#9998)
• Testing: Fix using corerect testing.T when creating gomega object (#10342)
• Testing: Revert "Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller" (#9985)
• Testing: Reverting ginkgo.show-node-events to ginkgo.progress (#10214)
• Testing: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9914)
• Testing: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9819)
• util: Add tests and update provider_issues.go (#10264)

🌱 Others

• API: Stop relying on GVK being set on regular typed objects (#9956)
• Bootstrap: Add MachinePool test for switching bootstrap config to another ready/non-ready object with different name (#9616)
• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10208)
• CAPD: make docker machine bootstrap timeout configurable (#9952)
• CAPD: Remove requeues in DockerMachinePool (#9725)
• CAPD: Support configuring ExtraPortMappings for the kind cluster (#10046)
• CAPIM: Add namespaces to the list of resource handled by the in-memory API server (#10297)
• CAPIM: Allow using different resource group and listener name with the in memory server (#10096)
• CAPIM: Make in memory API server more tolerant when starting (#10211)
• CAPIM: Make in memory runtime and server accessible from outside (#9986)
• CAPIM: use port only to identify the wcl to make port-forward… (#10245)
• CI: Add fail fast to DumpResourcesForCluster in case of no route to host (#10204)
• CI: Added go directive test (#10261)
• CI: Bump conversion-gen to v0.29.0 (#10012)
• CI: Bump go-apidiff to v0.8.2 (#10011)
• CI: Bump govulncheck to v1.0.4 (#10274)
• CI: Bump kpromo to v4.0.5 (#10140)
• CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10013)
• CI: DumpResourcesForCluster should fail fast for i/o errors (#10238)
• CI: Ensure build images contains correct binary and for correct architecture (#9932)
• CI: Fix Make target generate-go-openapi (#10161)
• CI: Fix TestPatchNode flake (#10287)
• CI: Hack/prowjob-gen skip creating empty files (#10022)
• CI: implement generator for prowjobs (#9937)
• CI: bump dependencies (#10236)
• CI: bump WorkloadKubernetesVersion for v1.6 clusterctl upgrade test (#10017)
• CI: adjust capd dockerfile so the binary exposes the package in the built binraries path variable (#10030)
• CI: Update GH actions to work with new release-1.6 branch (#9708)
• ClusterClass: Add ClusterClass variables metadata (#10308)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools for webhooks and cc controller (#10055)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools in topology/scope package (#10052)
• ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10063)
• ClusterClass: use the alias for ClusterCacheTrackerReader instead of the internal reference (#10309)
• clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10203)
• clusterctl: Add completion for fish shell (#9950)
• clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
• clusterctl: Add in-cluster ipam provider (#8811)
• clusterctl: Add Proxmox provider quickstart (#9798)
• clusterctl: Better verbose logging on override path (#10180)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.2 (#10126)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10267)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.1 (#10113)
• clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#9975)
• clusterctl: Deprecate clusterctl alpha topology plan (#10139)
• clusterctl: Replace context.TODO() from clusterctl proxy.go (#9776)
• Community meeting: Move CecileRobertMichon to emeritus (#10042)
• Community meeting: Move ykakarap to emeritus approvers (#10000)
• Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintai...

v1.7.0-beta.1

🚨 This is a BETA RELEASE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an issue.

Highlights

• Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation
• Add public function to create new CRD migrator
• Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment

More details about the release

⚠️ BETA RELEASE NOTES ⚠️

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.0

📈 Overview

• 306 new commits merged
• 4 breaking changes ⚠️
• 11 feature additions ✨
• 37 bugs fixed 🐛

📝 Proposals

• MachinePool: Update MachinePool Machines proposal with diagrams (#9664)

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.17.0 & k8s.io v0.29 (#9964)
• Logging: Make event recorder names consistent for KCP and topology controller (#9862)
• KCP/MachineSet: Objects generated by KCP, MachineSets and MachinePools will now consistently use machine name (#9833)

✨ New Features

• API: Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
• clusterctl: Add k0smotron provider (#9991)
• clusterctl: Add public function to create new CRD migrator (#10075)
• Control-plane: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9871)
• MachineDeployment: Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment (#9262)
• MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts (#10223)
• MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation (#10202)
• Release: Add utility to create git issues on provider repo (#9110)
• Release: Add dependencies section to release notes tool (#10043)
• Testing: Resolve release markers (#9265)
• Testing: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9872)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• API: Use ptr instead of own implementation (#10276)
• API/e2e: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#10147)
• CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9894)
• CAPD: Remove --enable-hostpath-provisioner flag (#10271)
• CAPD: Remove duplicate fix for btrfs/zfs support (#8376)
• CABPK: Only refresh bootstrap token if needed, requeue in all cases where node hasn't joined yet (#9229)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#9543)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Use RequeueAfter instead of immediate requeue on ErrClusterLocked to not have exponentially increasing requeue time (#9810)
• clusterctl: Move handlePlugins function call out of init to allow debugging tests (#10200)
• clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9808)
• ClusterResourceSet: Requeue after 1 minute if ErrClusterLocked got hit (#9777)
• Control-plane: KCP should defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
• Devtools: Tilt: Show default cluster-template (#9820)
• e2e: Add wait for MachineList to be available (#10301)
• e2e: Ci: fix unset GINKGO_FOCUS variable (#10085)
• e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9960)
• e2e: Re-introduce exclude capi-webhook-system to fix test flake (#10157)
• e2e: Calculate correct worker count in clusterctl upgrade test (#9892)
• e2e: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#9891)
• e2e: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10201)
• IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9861)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#9857)
• Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9813)
• Machine: Bubble up machine drain condition in MachinesReadyCondition (#9355)
• Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10041)
• MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9745)
• Release: Fix Community meeting area formatting in release notes (#9784)
• Release: Fix defaulting logic in release notes tool (#9958)
• Release: Fix documentation area comparison in release notes (#9769)
• Release: Fix kubeadm bootstrap prefix in release notes (#9814)
• Release: Fix wrong branch name display for weekly update script (#9918)
• Runtime SDK: Use keys/values structured log interface (#9998)
• Testing: Revert "Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller" (#9985)
• Testing: Reverting ginkgo.show-node-events to ginkgo.progress (#10214)
• Testing: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9914)
• Testing: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9819)
• util: Add tests and update provider_issues.go (#10264)

🌱 Others

• API: Stop relying on GVK being set on regular typed objects (#9956)
• Bootstrap: Add MachinePool test for switching bootstrap config to another ready/non-ready object with different name (#9616)
• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10208)
• CAPD: Feat: make docker machine bootstrap timeout configurable (#9952)
• CAPD: Remove requeues in DockerMachinePool (#9725)
• CAPD: Support configuring ExtraPortMappings for the kind cluster (#10046)
• CAPIM: Add namespaces to the list of resource handled by the in-memory API server (#10297)
• CAPIM: Allow using different resource group and listener name with the in memory server (#10096)
• CAPIM: Make in memory API server more tolerant when starting (#10211)
• CAPIM: Make in memory runtime and server accessible from outside (#9986)
• CAPIM: Test/inmemory: use port only to identify the wcl to make port-forward… (#10245)
• CI: Add fail fast to DumpResourcesForCluster in case of no route to host (#10204)
• CI: Added go directive test (#10261)
• CI: Bump conversion-gen to v0.29.0 (#10012)
• CI: Bump go-apidiff to v0.8.2 (#10011)
• CI: Bump govulncheck to v1.0.4 (#10274)
• CI: Bump kpromo to v4.0.5 (#10140)
• CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10013)
• CI: DumpResourcesForCluster should fail fast for i/o errors (#10238)
• CI: Ensure build images contains correct binary and for correct architecture (#9932)
• CI: Fix Make target generate-go-openapi (#10161)
• CI: Fix TestPatchNode flake (#10287)
• CI: Hack/prowjob-gen skip creating empty files (#10022)
• CI: Hack: implement generator for prowjobs (#9937)
• CI: Makefile: bump dependencies (#10236)
• CI: bump WorkloadKubernetesVersion for v1.6 clusterctl upgrade test (#10017)
• CI: adjust capd dockerfile so the binary exposes the package in the built binraries path variable (#10030)
• CI: Update GH actions to work with new release-1.6 branch (#9708)
• ClusterClass: Add ClusterClass variables metadata (#10308)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools for webhooks and cc controller (#10055)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools in topology/scope package (#10052)
• ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10063)
• ClusterClass: Webhooks: use the alias for ClusterCacheTrackerReader instead of the internal reference (#10309)
• clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10203)
• clusterctl: Add completion for fish shell (#9950)
• clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
• clusterctl: Add in-cluster ipam provider (#8811)
• clusterctl: Add Proxmox provider quickstart (#9798)
• clusterctl: Better verbose logging on override path (#10180)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.2 (#10126)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10267)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.1 (#10113)
• clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#9975)
• clusterctl: Deprecate clusterctl alpha topology plan (#10139)
• clusterctl: Replace context.TODO() from clusterctl proxy.go (#9776)
• Community meeting: Move CecileRobertMichon to emeritus (#10042)
• Community meeting: Move ykakarap to emeritus approvers (#10000)
• Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintainer (#9997)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/docker/docker from 24.0.7 -> 25.0.0 (#10057)
• Dependency: Bump golangci-lint to v1.56.1 (#10124)
• Dependency: Bump controller-runtime to v0.17.1 (#10131)
• Dependency: Bump controller-runtime to v0.17.2 (#10162)
• Dependency: Bump controller-tools to v0.14 (#9987)
• Dependency: Bump crypto dep version (#9938)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0 (#10284)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.31.1 to 1.32.0 (#10285)
• Dependency: Bump Go to 1.21.5 (#9900)
• Dependency: Bump go version to 1.21.8 (#10235)
• Dependency: Bump kind version to v0.22.0 (#10094)
• Dependency: Bump protobuf to v1.33.0 to address CVEs (#10248)
• Dependency: Bump the kubernetes group to v0.28.5 (#9933)
• Dependency: Bump the kubernetes group with 8 updates (#10286)
• Dependency: Bump to Go 1.20.12 (#9840)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/docker/docker from 25.0.4+incompatible to 25.0.5+incompatible (#10302)
• Dependency: Go.mod: bump github.com/cloudflare/circl to v1.3.7 (#10001)
• Devtools: Add missing folder to clean-tilt make target (#9934)
• Devtools: Allow tilt provider with pre-build images (#10244)
• Devtools: Explicitly set golangci config for sub modules (#9821)
• Devtools: Fix variables names in Tiltfile (#9811)
• Devtools: Implement privileged namespace security policy update for tilt-prepare (#10178)
• Devtools: Simplify testing nightly builds with clusterctl (#10018)
• Devtools: Small improvements to tilt (#9936)
• e2e: Add conformance e2e tests (#10060)
• e2e: Add DeepCopy method for E2EConfig (#9988)
• e2e: Add PostCreateNamespace hook to E2E tests (#10067)
• e2e: Add test util to resolve Kuber...

v1.7.0-beta.0

🚨 This is a BETA RELEASE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an issue.

Highlights

• Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation

Deprecation Warning

• The API version v1alpha4 has been completely removed in this release.

More details about the release

⚠️ BETA RELEASE NOTES ⚠️

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.0

📈 Overview

• 264 new commits merged
• 4 breaking changes ⚠️
• 9 feature additions ✨
• 33 bugs fixed 🐛

📝 Proposals

• MachinePool: Update MachinePool Machines proposal with diagrams (#9664)

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• API: Remove v1alpha4 API Version (#9939)
• Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.17.0 & k8s.io v0.29 (#9964)
• Logging: Make event recorder names consistent for KCP and topology controller (#9862)
• KCP/MachineSet: Objects generated by KCP, MachineSets and MachinePools will now consistently use machine name (#9833)

✨ New Features

• API: Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
• clusterctl: Add k0smotron provider (#9991)
• clusterctl: Add public function to create new CRD migrator (#10075)
• Control-plane: KCP: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9871)
• MachineDeployment: Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment (#9262)
• Release: Add utility to create git issues on provider repo (#9110)
• Release: Add dependencies section to release notes tool (#10043)
• Testing: Resolve release markers (#9265)
• Testing: V1.29: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9872)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9894)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#9543)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Use RequeueAfter instead of immediate requeue on ErrClusterLocked to not have exponentially increasing requeue time (#9810)
• clusterctl: Move handlePlugins function call out of init to allow debugging tests (#10200)
• clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9808)
• ClusterResourceSet: Requeue after 1 minute if ErrClusterLocked got hit (#9777)
• Control-plane: KCP should defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
• Devtools: Tilt: Show default cluster-template (#9820)
• e2e: Ci: fix unset GINKGO_FOCUS variable (#10085)
• e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9960)
• e2e: Re-introduce exclude capi-webhook-system to fix test flake (#10157)
• e2e: Test/e2e: Calculate correct worker count in clusterctl upgrade test (#9892)
• e2e: Test: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#9891)
• e2e: Test: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10201)
• IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9861)
• KCP: Skip checking clusterConfiguration.dns fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#9857)
• Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9813)
• Machine: Bubble up machine drain condition in MachinesReadyCondition (#9355)
• Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10041)
• MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9745)
• API/e2e: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#10147)
• CABPK: Only refresh bootstrap token if needed, requeue in all cases where node hasn't joined yet (#9229)
• Release: Fix Community meeting area formatting in release notes (#9784)
• Release: Fix defaulting logic in release notes tool (#9958)
• Release: Fix documentation area comparison in release notes (#9769)
• Release: Fix kubeadm bootstrap prefix in release notes (#9814)
• Release: Fix wrong branch name display for weekly update script (#9918)
• Runtime SDK: Use keys/values structured log interface (#9998)
• Testing: Revert "Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller" (#9985)
• Testing: Reverting ginkgo.show-node-events to ginkgo.progress (#10214)
• Testing: Ssa: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9914)
• Testing: Test: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9819)

🌱 Others

• API: Stop relying on GVK being set on regular typed objects (#9956)
• Bootstrap: Add MachinePool test for switching bootstrap config to another ready/non-ready object with different name (#9616)
• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10208)
• CAPD: Feat: make docker machine bootstrap timeout configurable (#9952)
• CAPD: Remove requeues in DockerMachinePool (#9725)
• CAPD: Test/e2e: Support configuring ExtraPortMappings for the kind cluster (#10046)
• CAPD: Remove duplicate fix for btrfs/zfs support (#8376)
• CAPIM: Allow using different resource group and listener name with the in memory server (#10096)
• CAPIM: Make in memory API server more tolerant when starting (#10211)
• CAPIM: Make in memory runtime and server accessible from outside (#9986)
• CI: Add fail fast to DumpResourcesForCluster in case of no route to host (#10204)
• CI: Bump conversion-gen to v0.29.0 (#10012)
• CI: Bump go-apidiff to v0.8.2 (#10011)
• CI: Bump kpromo to v4.0.5 (#10140)
• CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10013)
• CI: DumpResourcesForCluster should fail fast for i/o errors (#10238)
• CI: Ensure build images contains correct binary and for correct architecture (#9932)
• CI: Fix Make target generate-go-openapi (#10161)
• CI: Hack/prowjob-gen skip creating empty files (#10022)
• CI: Hack: implement generator for prowjobs (#9937)
• CI: Makefile: bump dependencies (#10236)
• CI: Test/e2e: bump WorkloadKubernetesVersion for v1.6 clusterctl upgrade test (#10017)
• CI: Test: adjust capd dockerfile so the binary exposes the package in the built binraries path variable (#10030)
• CI: Update GH actions to work with new release-1.6 branch (#9708)
• ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools for webhooks and cc controller (#10055)
• ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10063)
• clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10203)
• clusterctl: Add completion for fish shell (#9950)
• clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
• clusterctl: Add in-cluster ipam provider (#8811)
• clusterctl: Add Proxmox provider quickstart (#9798)
• clusterctl: Better verbose logging on override path (#10180)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.2 (#10126)
• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.1 (#10113)
• clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#9975)
• clusterctl: Deprecate clusterctl alpha topology plan (#10139)
• clusterctl: Replace context.TODO() from clusterctl proxy.go (#9776)
• Community meeting: Move CecileRobertMichon to emeritus (#10042)
• Community meeting: Move ykakarap to emeritus approvers (#10000)
• Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintainer (#9997)
• Dependency: Bump github.com/docker/docker from 24.0.7 -> 25.0.0 (#10057)
• Dependency: Bump golangci-lint to v1.56.1 (#10124)
• Dependency: Bump controller-runtime to v0.17.1 (#10131)
• Dependency: Bump controller-runtime to v0.17.2 (#10162)
• Dependency: Bump controller-tools to v0.14 (#9987)
• Dependency: Bump crypto dep version (#9938)
• Dependency: Bump Go to 1.21.5 (#9900)
• Dependency: Bump go version to 1.21.8 (#10235)
• Dependency: Bump kind version to v0.22.0 (#10094)
• Dependency: Bump protobuf to v1.33.0 to address CVEs (#10248)
• Dependency: Bump the kubernetes group to v0.28.5 (#9933)
• Dependency: Bump to Go 1.20.12 (#9840)
• Dependency: Go.mod: bump github.com/cloudflare/circl to v1.3.7 (#10001)
• Devtools: Add missing folder to clean-tilt make target (#9934)
• Devtools: Allow tilt provider with pre-build images (#10244)
• Devtools: Explicitly set golangci config for sub modules (#9821)
• Devtools: Fix variables names in Tiltfile (#9811)
• Devtools: Simplify testing nightly builds with clusterctl (#10018)
• Devtools: Small improvements to tilt (#9936)
• e2e: Add conformance e2e tests (#10060)
• e2e: Add DeepCopy method for E2EConfig (#9988)
• e2e: Add PostCreateNamespace hook to E2E tests (#10067)
• e2e: Add test util to resolve Kubernetes versions (#9995)
• e2e: Allow to specify cluster name for E2E quick-start (#10088)
• e2e: Bump cluster-autoscaler to v1.29.0 (#9942)
• e2e: Drop duplicated scale test (#9968)
• e2e: Fix ci-latest test to actually use ci latest (#10080)
• e2e: Improve output of exec.KubectlApply (#9737)
• e2e: Make etcd and CoreDNS optional in upgrade and self-hosted tests (#9963)
• e2e: Test/framework add WatchDaemonSetLogsByLabelSelector method (#9984)
• e2e: Test/framework: expose CopyAndAmendClusterctlConfig function (#10086)
• e2e: Test: combine Finalizers tests to default quick start tests (#10039)
• e2e: Use --wait-providers in test framework InitWithBinary func (#10149)
• e2e: Use manager in test extension (#10097)
• e2e: Add scale testing for upgrades (#9077)
• Machine: Be more explicit when skipping node deletion (#10137)
• Machine: Mark Machine healthy condition as unknown if we can't list wl nodes (#9864)
• MachineDeployment: Set revision on machinedeployment and patch via defer (#10160)
• MachinePool: Use SSA Patch to create machines in MP controller (#9791)
• MachineSet: MS: improve replica defaulting for autoscaler (#9649)
• KCP/MachineSet: KCP/MS remove hardcoded WithStepCounterIf(false) (#9772)
• Release: Add integration test for release notes tool (#9617)
• Release: Bump kube...

v1.6.3

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.25.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.23.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.2

📈 Overview

• 14 new commits merged
• 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CAPD: Fix(capd): remove hack for btrfs/zfs support (#10192)
• e2e: Test: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10217)

🌱 Others

• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10212)
• clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10205)
• clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
• Dependency: Bump go version to 1.21.8 (#10246)
• Dependency: Bump protobuf to v1.33.0 to address CVEs (#10249)
• Release: Improve release-staging build (#10190)
• Release: Read in dockerfiles from stdin (#10209)

📖 Additionally, there have been 4 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10230, #10241, #10243, #10260)

Dependencies

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Changed

• google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.31.0 → v1.33.0

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Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.5.7

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.28.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.22.x -> v1.28.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.5.6

📈 Overview

• 8 new commits merged
• 1 bug fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• e2e: Test: retry GetOwnerGraph when having certificate issues (#10218)

🌱 Others

• CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10213)
• Dependency: Bump go version to 1.21.8 (#10247)
• Dependency: Bump protobuf to v1.33.0 to address CVEs (#10250)
• Release: Improve release-staging build (#10227)
• Release: Read in dockerfiles from stdin (#10210)

📖 Additionally, there have been 2 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10234, #10259)

Dependencies

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Nothing has changed.

Changed

• google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.31.0 → v1.33.0

Removed

Nothing has changed.

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊