DNS Operator v0.17.0

What's Changed

• chore(coredns): Update toolchain to go1.24.12 by @mikenairn in #715
• Add version back to release.mk by @Boomatang in #720
• improve doc-verification skill by @maksymvavilov in #712
• fix(coredns): add warnings when CRD missing by @mikenairn in #700
• fix(release): add set-image-refs target for consistent image management by @mikenairn in #721
• ADD: Document migrating existing clusters to use groups. by @Boomatang in #698
• Add exercising DNS fail-over via groups documentation by @Boomatang in #708
• Add documentation for migrating away from DNS Groups by @Boomatang in #718
• chore(coredns): remove externalTrafficPolicy:Local by @mikenairn in #732
• update CoreDNS docs by @maksymvavilov in #711
• fix(make): use order-only prerequisites for LOCALBIN tool targets by @mikenairn in #734
• docs: fix broken links and remove unsupported Helm docs by @mikenairn in #736
• add yaml output for cli by @maksymvavilov in #695
• FIX: Broken link by @Boomatang in #747
• Release Docs Update by @Boomatang in #744
• test: add runtime reconfiguration integration test for group changes by @mikenairn in #746
• properly undo the wc replacement in registry by @maksymvavilov in #750
• Enable s390x support by @vinayakray19 in #745
• Update Go to 1.25.7 by @philbrookes in #755
• update coredns plugin dependency to v1.14.2 by @philbrookes in #756
• Update Go to 1.25.8 by @philbrookes in #757
• fix: derive setup-envtest version from controller-runtime by @mikenairn in #759
• Upgrade gRPC-Go to 1.79.3 by @thomasmaas in #758
• fix: gate TLD early-exit on ICANN flag in findDNSZoneForHost by @maksymvavilov in #765
• chore(deps): Upgrade Go to 1.25.9 by @thomasmaas in #764
• chore(deps): Upgrade Go to 1.25.9 in CoreDNS plugin by @mikenairn in #766
• chore(deps): Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.1 to 1.79.3 in /coredns/plugin by @dependabot[bot] in #754
• chore(deps): Bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel from 1.39.0 to 1.41.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #763

New Contributors

• @vinayakray19 made their first contribution in #745

Full Changelog: v0.16.2...v0.17.0