v0.12.0-rc.0

Changes since v0.11.0

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Remove support for Ironic before 2024.1 (#2756)
• Completely remove support for ironic-inspector (#2755)
• Drop the non-Redfish iLO 4 and iLO 5 drivers (#2750)
• Change architecture default to match controller (#2698)

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

More details about the release

✨ New Features

• enable container signing (#2826)
• BMO: do not require checksums for OCI images (#2806)
• add image SBOM attestation to image builds (#2813)
• Make bootMACAddress optional for virtual media with inspection enabled (#2793)
• Capture and store LLDP data in HardwareData (#2752)
• Allow recovering hardware details from existing HardwareData (#2754)
• Integrate with IrSO for getting Ironic details (#2713)
• Add namespace scoped mode (#2529)
• Introduce InspectionMode field (#2670)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Abort inspection/cleaning before powering off during deletion (#2796)
• Make bootMACAddress webhook validation case-insensitive (#2740)
• Align BMO e2e optional test to namespace scoped config (#2716)
• Create a PreprovisioningImage for servicing if needed (#2690)

📖 Documentation

• add AGENTS.md (#2763)
• Add release-0.11 test triggers to README (#2685)
• Add alpha release in release documentation (#2655)
• Update info on running e2e locally (#2642)

🌱 Others

• e2e: retry reconcile loop after patching (#2836)
• E2E: Fix race condition in upgrade tests (#2827)
• lint: allow long lines in tables and code fences (#2835)
• e2e: pre-pull images to work around kind ctr import issue (#2833)
• Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-rc.1 (#2828)
• Bump libvirt.org/go/libvirt from 1.11006.0 to 1.11010.0 in /test (#2831)
• Bump github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/api from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (#2829)
• Bump github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/api from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 in /test (#2830)
• bump golang to 1.24.11 (#2822)
• refactor: use controllerutil.RemoveFinalizer for finalizer management (#2820)
• Apply gopls modernize suggestions (#2815)
• Replace custom string utility with standard library (#2819)
• Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#2817)
• Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-rc.0 (#2816)
• Enable errorlint linter and fix lints (#2809)
• Bump go.uber.org/zap from 1.27.0 to 1.27.1 (#2800)
• Add yamllint workflow (#2811)
• Improve ironic version patching with IrSO (#2808)
• remove scheduled osv-scanner workflow (#2807)
• Bump github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2 from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0 (#2801)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0 in /hack/tools (#2802)
• Bump CAPI to 1.12.0-beta.1 (#2799)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0 in /test (#2794)
• E2E: Bump kubectl minimum version to v1.34.1 (#2791)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api from 0.20.1 to 0.21.0 in /test (#2786)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5 from 5.7.1 to 5.8.0 in /hack/tools (#2784)
• Bump go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3 from 3.6.5 to 3.6.6 (#2783)
• Bump the kubernetes group to v0.34.2 (#2782)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 in /hack/tools (#2767)
• Bump k8s.io modules to v0.34.1 and CR to v0.22.4 (#2779)
• E2E: External inspection name collision fix (#2775)
• E2E: Remove duplicate inspection test (#2746)
• Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-beta.0 (#2764)
• E2E: Pre-download IPA and serve from disk image server (#2760)
• Update to Pull request template (#2753)
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2.3.3 to 2.4.1 in the github-actions group (#2757)
• vbmctl: support multiple network interfaces (#2207)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.26.0 to 2.27.2 in /test (#2747)
• E2E: Improve logs and artifacts in upgrade tests (#2744)
• E2E: Make use of DisableCertificateVerification setting (#2715)
• Add release manifests (#2736)
• Uplift go 1.24.9 to address CVEs (#2718)
• E2E: Use IrSO also in upgrade tests (#2729)
• E2E: Bump IrSO version to v0.5.2 and unify yaml formatting (#2733)
• VBMCTL: Avoid re-using the default storage pool (#2365)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 in /hack/tools (#2724)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 in /test (#2725)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 in /hack/tools (#2723)
• Bump github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/api from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0 in /test (#2726)
• Bump CAPI to v1.11.2 (#2722)
• Do not use os.Exit outside of cmd (#2717)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.25.3 to 2.26.0 in /test (#2714)
• Replace ironic deployment with IrSO in e2e (#2681)
• Dockerfile: strip out symbol table by default for public images (#2711)
• cmd: strip out symbol table & DWARF debugging info (#2709)
• E2E: Drop periodic job for release-0.8 (#2704)
• add specific time to dependabot config (#2703)
• E2E: Change how upgrade tests are cleaned up (#2697)
• Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 4 updates (#2700)
• Fix OSV-Scanner (#2677)
• Increase optional periodic test time (#2696)
• Bump go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3 from 3.6.4 to 3.6.5 (#2693)
• E2E: Make timeout configurable and increase it for optional periodics (#2686)
• Add IPA_BASEURI to download ipa image from Nordix (#2680)
• Add periodic release-0.11 test (#2678)
• Add e2e tests for release 0.11 (#2674)
• Bump golang to v1.24.7 (#2671)
• Bump the kubernetes modules to v0.33.5 (#2665)
• Accept uppercase format in upgrade focus (#2657)
• Remove checking keepalived image tag during release (#2656)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0 in /test (#2669)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0 in /hack/tools (#2668)
• add dependabot support for release-0.11 (#2660)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.25.2 to 2.25.3 in /test (#2654)
• Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.23.0 to 1.23.2 (#2652)
• update github runners to oci gh arc runners (#2623)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 in /hack/tools (#2653)
• Enable linter errname (#2615)

The image for this release is: v0.12.0-rc.0

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊