v0.17.9

What's Changed

• chore: Backport (03/26/2026) by Britania Rodriguez Reyes (@britaniar) in #1280
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@7d800c9 (cncf/main) fix: make manifests to fix CRDs with latest change (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#552)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@303387a chore: upgrade go to 1.25.8 (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#550)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@0e6d623 chore: fix quickstart script to join members (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#542)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@f061d92 feat: check in performance test related code/utilities/scripts (1 of N) (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#529)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@8e938ae chore: bump azure/setup-helm from 4 to 5 (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#551)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@0c13d1a feat: wire namespace affinity scheduler plugin (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#461)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@b871a06 fix: Update condition message for Placement when waiting for rollout to finish (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#548)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@d75f28a feat: refactor member agent flag handling logic + add per-flag validation logic (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#489)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@997ba1c fix: push release images with both v{version} and {version} tags (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#535)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@119c519 fix: build ghcr images using the tagged version of the code (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#541)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@a271633 chore: updated maintainers and few other minor tweaks. (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#533)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@9bf9bdb feat: Add feature issue template (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#517)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@bcb3df6 fix: Invalid pr title workflow fix (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#519)
  kubefleet-dev/kubefleet@aa37ea2 chore: bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.15.1 to 2.16.0 (kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#525)
• chore: Last backport of March by Britania Rodriguez Reyes (@britaniar) in #1281
  feat: add a webhook that blocks PDB creation in non-reserved namespaces by Chen Yu (@michaelawyu) in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#546
  feat: update the placement v1 with PR and CPRS by Yetkin Timocin (@ytimocin) in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#544
  feat: align v1 override types with v1beta1 schema parity by Yetkin Timocin (@ytimocin) in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet#509

Full Changelog: v0.17.8...v0.17.9