v1.8.4

Changes since v1.8.3

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📈 Overview

• 2 new commits merged
• 1 bug fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use a less expensive method for storage policy (#2481)

🌱 Others

• Clarify OWNER_ALIASES file (#2447)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.7.4

Changes since v1.7.3

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📈 Overview

• 2 new commits merged
• 1 bug fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use a less expensive method for storage policy (#2482)

🌱 Others

• Clarify OWNER_ALIASES file (#2448)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.8.3

Changes since v1.8.2

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📈 Overview

• 2 new commits merged

🌱 Others

• Bump Go to v1.20.10 (#2443)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0 (#2440)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.7.3

Changes since v1.7.2

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📈 Overview

• 20 new commits merged
• 3 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix nil pointer error in retrieveVcenterSession (#2305)
• Remove the conditional on ipv6 (#2425)
• StoragePolicy should select datastore based on connected hosts and set on VM spec (#2276)

🌱 Others

• Add finalizer for VSphereClusterIdentity (#2337)
• Add ownerReference resilience test (#2355)
• Bump CAPI test components to v1.4.7 (#2404)
• Bump Go to 1.19.13 (#2334)
• Bump Go to 1.20.8 (#2359)
• Bump Go to v1.20.10 (#2433)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0 (#2439)
• CI: add annotation with prowjob name and id to ipclaims (#2222)
• CI: Makefile: remove markdownlint and move golangci-lint to lint target (#2257)
• CI: move to new resource pool and folder in VMC (#2371)
• CI: related grouped cherry-picks (#2226)
• CI: replace metal3 ipam by CAPI in-cluster provider (#2389)
• CI: Set base branch correctly for link checker (#2243)
• Improve godoc for VSphereCluster.spec.failureDomainSelector (#2324)
• Refactor test data to align with core CAPI (#2265)
• Use number of esxi hosts as worker node count for anti-affinity e2e test (#2380)

📖 Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#2238)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.6.3

Changes since v1.6.2

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📈 Overview

• 14 new commits merged
• 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix nil pointer error in retrieveVcenterSession (#2306)
• StoragePolicy should select datastore based on connected hosts and set on VM spec (#2277)

🌱 Others

• Bump Go to 1.19.13 (#2333)
• Bump Go to 1.20.8 (#2361)
• Bump Go to v1.20.10 (#2434)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0 (#2441)
• CI: add annotation with prowjob name and id to ipclaims (#2223)
• CI: Makefile: remove markdownlint and move golangci-lint to lint target (#2258)
• CI: move to new resource pool and folder in VMC (#2372)
• CI: related grouped cherry-picks (#2227)
• CI: replace metal3 ipam by CAPI in-cluster provider (#2386)
• CI: Set base branch correctly for link checker (#2244)
• Refactor test data to align with core CAPI (#2266)

📖 Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#2240)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.5.8

Changes since v1.5.7

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📈 Overview

• 14 new commits merged
• 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix nil pointer error in retrieveVcenterSession (#2307)
• StoragePolicy should select datastore based on connected hosts and set on VM spec (#2278)

🌱 Others

• Bump Go to v1.19.13 (#2332)
• Bump Go to v1.20.10 (#2435)
• Bump Go to v1.20.8 (#2362)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0 (#2442)
• CI: add annotation with prowjob name and id to ipclaims (#2224)
• CI: Makefile: remove markdownlint and move golangci-lint to lint target (#2259)
• CI: move to new resource pool and folder in VMC (#2373)
• CI: related grouped cherry-picks (#2228)
• CI: replace metal3 ipam by CAPI in-cluster provider (#2387)
• CI: Set base branch correctly for link checker (#2245)
• Refactor test data to align with core CAPI (#2267)

📖 Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#2239)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.8.2

Changes since v1.8.1

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📈 Overview

• 11 new commits merged
• 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix nil pointer error in retrieveVcenterSession (#2304)
• Remove the conditional on ipv6 (#2424)

🌱 Others

• Add finalizer for VSphereClusterIdentity (#2336)
• Add ownerReference resilience test (#2354)
• Bump Cluster API to v1.5.2 (#2402)
• Bump to Go 1.20.8 (#2335)
• CI: move to new resource pool and folder in VMC (#2370)
• CI: replace metal3 ipam by CAPI in-cluster provider (#2388)
• Improve godoc for VSphereCluster.spec.failureDomainSelector (#2323)
• Only ensure Go minor version (#2343)
• Use number of esxi hosts as worker node count for anti-affinity e2e test (#2379)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.8.1

Changes since v1.8.0

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📈 Overview

• 12 new commits merged
• 1 feature addition ✨
• 1 bug fixed 🐛

✨ New Features

• Support Kubernetes v1.28 (#2253 #2287)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• StoragePolicy should select datastore based on connected hosts and set on VM spec (#2275)

🌱 Others

• Add verify-govulncheck and verify-vulnerabilities targets and integrate to scan action (#2214)
• Bump to CAPI v1.5.1 (#2300)
• CI: add annotation with prowjob name and id to ipclaims (#2221)
• Grouped CI related cherry-picks (#2225)
• Introduce --clustercachetracker-concurrency flag (#2289)
• Makefile: remove markdownlint and move golangci-lint to lint target (#2256)
• Refactor test data to align with core CAPI (#2264)
• Set base branch correctly for link checker (#2242)

📖 Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#2237)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.8.0

Highlights

• New reviewers and approvers have been added to the project 🎉
• Based on Cluster API v1.5.0
• Support for guest shutdown during VM deletion (via VMware tools)
• Improved session handling
• Improved release automation

Changes since v1.7

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📈 Overview

• 92 new commits merged
• 4 breaking changes ⚠️
• 6 feature additions ✨
• 13 bugs fixed 🐛

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Introduce concurrency flags per controller (#2106)
• Treating VSphereVM wasNotFoundByBIOSUUID as transient error (#2136)
• Webhook: prevent changes to an already set VSphereVM.spec.biosUUID (#2146)

🌱 Deprecations & Removals

• Deprecate AutoConfigure functionality (#2103)
• Deprecate v1alpha3 and v1alpha4 apiVersions (#2166)
• Remove haproxy (#2031)
• Remove NodeLabeling feature gate (#2032)

✨ New Features

• Align flags with CAPI (#2104)
• Automate GitHub release creation (#2050)
• Bump CAPI to v1.5.0 (#1970 #1996 #2029 #2091)
• Disable vAppConfig during VM creation (#2014)
• Improve session handling with a secure session key (#2154)
• Perform guest shutdown if VMware tools are installed when deleting VM (#1982)
• Support bare IPv6 vCenter server addresses (#1998)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• APIs: fix missing categories marker for VShpereVM in v1alpha3 and v1alpha4 (#1973)
• CAPV CSI driver isn't passing TLS thumbprint (#1819)
• clustermodules: prevent creation of new modules if DoesExist returns an error (#2185)
• Don't call session logout for keepAliveHandler (#1949)
• Fix datastore selection based on StoragePolicy (#1937)
• pkg/session fix used RoundTripper inside anonymous func for KeepAliveHandler (#2033)
• Refine finalizer handling (#2099)
• Return error on session creation if VCentre client not used (#2023)
• Use same check when checking cluster is paused or not in the handler (#1946)

🌱 Others

• Updates CI template to k8s 1.27.3 (#2016)
• Add args to golangci-lint to show lines number (#2180)
• Add powerOffMode to templates (#2149)
• Add release-1.7 to Trivy scan (#1978)
• Align github actions with upstream CAPI (#2167)
• Also add release notes to pre releases (#2138)
• Bump version to v1.8 in clusterctl-settings (#2121)
• CI: Removes hardcoded thumbprint (#2186)
• CI: Retry getting ipaddress object name (#2041)
• Cleanup deleteFunc in VmopMachineService (#2057)
• Drop redundant list webhook registrations (#2015)
• Drop remediation tests (#1976)
• envtest: Dynamically load CRDs using golang resolvers (#1931)
• Fixups after Makefile refactoring (#2109)
• flavorgen generates all flavors by default (#2172)
• go.mod: pin cluster-api version to prevent dependabot from downgrading sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/test (#2021)
• hack/tools: use go-install.sh for installing controller-gen (#2005)
• Implement image promotion sync Makefile with core CAPI (#2101)
• Improve fd selection logic (#1944)
• Introduce watch-filter flag as predicate filter + filter out paused objects (#2105)
• Makefile: refactor how govc is built to workaround dependency issues building govc (#1986)
• OWNERS: Refresh of owners as per meeting of 2023/06/22 (#2082)
• Prepare metadata.yaml for v1.8 release series (#2097)
• Refactor how tools are built to align with CAPI and get rid of tools go.mod (#2080)
• Rename findVMPre7 to findVSphereVM (#2036)
• test/e2e: add check at anti-affinity test to ensure enough hosts exist (#1974)
• test: generate junit result for test-integration and add test-junit target (#2140)
• Use pointer receiver consistently in vspheremachine controller (#2055)
• Using ClusterCacheTracker instead of remote.NewClusterClient (#2132)

🌱 Dependencies

• Bump setup-envtest (#2093)
• Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#2077)
• Bump actions/setup-go from 3.5.0 to 4.1.0 (#1953 #2196)
• Bump controller-runtime to v0.15.1 (#2169)
• Bump controller-tools to v0.12.1 (#2004)
• Bump docker to v24.0.5 (#2081)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.2 to 2.11.0 in /hack/tools (#1954)
• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.27.8 to 1.27.10 (#2079)
• Bump github.com/vmware/govmomi from 0.30.4 to 0.30.7 in /hack/tools (#1968 #2020 #2178)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.13.0 (#2161)
• Bump golang.org/x/tools from 0.9.3 to 0.12.0 (#2018 #2127 #2176)
• Bump golangci-lint to v1.53.3 and adapt installation from core CAPI (#2028)
• Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.4.0 to 3.6.0 (#1940)
• Bump k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver from 0.27.2 to 0.27.4 (#2200)
• Bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.27.2 to 0.27.4 (#2197)
• Bump k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap from 0.27.2 to 0.27.4 (#2201)
• Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.26.4 to 0.27.4 in /hack/tools (#1956 #2017 #2078)
• Bump kpromo to v4.0.4 (#2139)
• Bump to Go 1.20.7 (#2022 #2142)
• Bump to vm-operator/api v1.8.2 (#2160)

📖 Additionally, there have been 6 contributions to our documentation and book. (#2168, #2083, #2108, #2100, #2030, #1966 #2141 #2147)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊

v1.7.2

Changes since v1.7.1

---

📈 Overview

• 21 new commits merged
• 2 feature additions ✨
• 3 bugs fixed 🐛

✨ New Features

• Automate GitHub release creation (#2068)
• Improve session handling with a secure session key (#2190)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CAPV CSI driver isn't passing TLS thumbprint (#2064)
• clustermodules: prevent creation of new modules if DoesExist returns an error (#2204)
• Refine finalizer handling (#2115)

🌱 Others

• [CI]: Updates CI template to k8s 1.27.3 (#2067)
• [CI] Removes hardcoded thumbprint (#2187)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.13.0 (#2162)
• Bump docker to v24.0.5 (#2084)
• Bump golangci-lint to v1.53.3 (#2088)
• Bump kpromo and fix release-notes target (#2156)
• Bump to Go 1.19.12 (#2143)
• hack/e2e.sh: retry getting ipaddress object name (#2045)
• Implement image promotion sync Makefile from core CAPI (#2110)
• OWNERS: Refresh of owners as per meeting of 2023/06/22 (#2129)
• Refactor how tools are built to align with CAPI and get rid of tools go.mod (#2094)
• test: generate junit result for test-integration and add test-junit target (#2150)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊