v1.8.0

Changes since v1.7.1

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📈 Overview

• 55 new commits merged
• 5 feature additions ✨
• 9 bugs fixed 🐛

✨ New Features

• Automate GitHub release creation (kubernetes-sigs#2050)
• Bump cluster-api dependency to v1.5.0-beta.1 (kubernetes-sigs#1970)
• Disable vAppConfig during VM creation (kubernetes-sigs#2014)
• Implement image promotion sync Makefile with core CAPI (kubernetes-sigs#2101)
• Support bare IPv6 vCenter server addresses (kubernetes-sigs#1998)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• apis: fix missing categories marker for VShpereVM in v1alpha3 and v1alpha4 (kubernetes-sigs#1973)
• CAPV CSI driver isn't passing TLS thumbprint (kubernetes-sigs#1819)
• Don't call session logout for keepAliveHandler (kubernetes-sigs#1949)
• envtest: Dynamically load CRDs using golang resolvers (kubernetes-sigs#1931)
• Fix datastore selection based on StoragePolicy (kubernetes-sigs#1937)
• hack/e2e.sh: retry getting ipaddress object name (kubernetes-sigs#2041)
• pkg/session fix used RoundTripper inside anonymous func for KeepAliveHandler (kubernetes-sigs#2033)
• Return error on session creation if VCentre client not used (kubernetes-sigs#2023)
• Use same check when checking cluster is pasued or not in the handler (kubernetes-sigs#1946)

🌱 Others

• [CI] Bump setup-envtest (kubernetes-sigs#2093)
• [CI]: Updates CI template to k8s 1.27.3 (kubernetes-sigs#2016)
• Add release-1.7 to Trivy scan (kubernetes-sigs#1978)
• Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (kubernetes-sigs#2077)
• Bump actions/setup-go from 3.5.0 to 4.0.1 (kubernetes-sigs#1953)
• Bump CAPI to v1.5.0 (kubernetes-sigs#2091)
• Bump CAPI to v1.5.0-rc.1 (kubernetes-sigs#2029)
• bump CAPI version to v1.5.0-rc.0 (kubernetes-sigs#1996)
• Bump controller-tools to v0.12.1 (kubernetes-sigs#2004)
• Bump docker to v24.0.5 (kubernetes-sigs#2081)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.2 to 2.11.0 in /hack/tools (kubernetes-sigs#1954)
• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.27.8 to 1.27.10 (kubernetes-sigs#2079)
• Bump github.com/vmware/govmomi from 0.30.4 to 0.30.5 in /hack/tools (kubernetes-sigs#1968)
• bump github.com/vmware/govmomi to v0.30.6 (kubernetes-sigs#2020)
• Bump Go to 1.20.6 (kubernetes-sigs#2022)
• Bump golang.org/x/tools from 0.9.3 to 0.11.0 (kubernetes-sigs#2018)
• Bump golangci-lint to v1.53.3 and adapt installation from core CAPI (kubernetes-sigs#2028)
• Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.4.0 to 3.6.0 (kubernetes-sigs#1940)
• Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.26.4 to 0.26.6 in /hack/tools (kubernetes-sigs#1956)
• Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.27.2 to 0.27.3 in /hack/tools (kubernetes-sigs#2017)
• Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.27.3 to 0.27.4 in /hack/tools (kubernetes-sigs#2078)
• Cleanup deleteFunc in VmopMachineService (kubernetes-sigs#2057)
• Deprecate AutoConfigure functionality (kubernetes-sigs#2103)
• Drop redundant list webhook registrations (kubernetes-sigs#2015)
• Drop remediation tests (kubernetes-sigs#1976)
• go.mod: pin cluster-api version to prevent dependabot from downgrading sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/test (kubernetes-sigs#2021)
• hack/tools: use go-install.sh for installing controller-gen (kubernetes-sigs#2005)
• Improve fd selection logic (kubernetes-sigs#1944)
• Makefile: refactor how govc is built to workaround dependency issues building govc (kubernetes-sigs#1986)
• Prepare metadata.yaml for v1.8 release series (kubernetes-sigs#2097)
• Refactor how tools are built to align with CAPI and get rid of tools go.mod (kubernetes-sigs#2080)
• Remove haproxy (kubernetes-sigs#2031)
• Remove NodeLabeling feature gate (kubernetes-sigs#2032)
• Rename findVMPre7 to findVSphereVM (kubernetes-sigs#2036)
• test/e2e: add check at anti-affinity test to ensure enough hosts exist (kubernetes-sigs#1974)
• Use pointer receiver consistently in vspheremachine controller (kubernetes-sigs#2055)

📖 Additionally, there have been 4 contributions to our documentation and book. (kubernetes-sigs#2108, kubernetes-sigs#2030, kubernetes-sigs#2100, kubernetes-sigs#1966)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊