# Release notes 1.5.0 [WIP]

## Generated on 2023-06-27
Changes since v1.4.0
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## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
- 285 new commits merged
- 4 breaking changes :warning:
- 11 feature additions ✨
- 60 bugs fixed 🐛

## :warning: Breaking Changes
- CAPD: Use k8s v1.27.0 in quickstart docs and CAPD (#8518)
- clusterctl: Bump to CR v0.15.0 (#8007)
- clusterctl: Follow XDG Directory standard for config/data/... files (#6913)
- clusterctl: Stop serving v1alpha3 API types (#8549)

## :sparkles: New Features
- CAPBK: Use caching read for bootstrap config owner (#8867)
- ClusterClass: add support or concurrent MD upgrades in classy clusters (#8432)
- Devtools: hack/observability: Add Parca, Bump observability tools, Add Grafana scale dashboard (#8754)
- IPAM: Implements Getter interface for IPAddressClaim object (#8374)
- MULTIPLE_AREAS[provider/control-plane-kubeadm|provider/core|provider/infrastructure-docker]: Add flags for configuring rate limits (#8579)
- MachineSet: MS preflight checks to improve cluster stability (#8595)
- clusterctl: Add in memory provider (#8799)
- clusterctl: Add support for add-on providers in clusterctl (#8472)
- clusterctl: feat: accept resource mutators in Move operation (#7966)
- e2e: ci: collect debug information about leftover processes (#8734)
- util: Move mergeMap to util (#8377)

## :bug: Bug Fixes
- API: Ensure ownerReference apiVersions are always up to date (#8256)
- CAPBK: ignition: start kubeadm after network.target (#8772)
- CAPBK: set uninitialized taint only on worker nodes (#8358)
- CAPD: Add kind mapper (#8880)
- CAPD: CAPD: Implement watch filter (#8789)
- CAPD: CAPD: change the haproxy entrypoint to prevent getting stopped immediately after start (#8685)
- CAPD: Delegate CAPD port selection to the container runtime (#8642)
- CAPD: test/capd: fix kind mapper entry for v1.25.11 (#8914)
- CAPD: test/e2e fix fail-swap-on=false flag not being part of kind images anymore (#8767)
- CAPIM: fix cluster deletion in the in-memory API server (#8818)
- CAPIM: fix inmemory provider docker build (#8822)
- CAPIM: test/e2e/in-memory: set providerID after VM is provisioned (#8879)
- CI: Always build Kind images for upgrade tests (#8859)
- CI: Ensure ALWAYS_BUILD_KIND_IMAGES is defaulted correctly in ci script (#8873)
- CI: verifier: use pull_request instead of pull_request_target (#8635)
- ClusterCacheTracker: ClusterCacheTracker: Stop pod caching when checking workload cluster (#8850)
- ClusterClass: Drop uid from error messages (#8333)
- ClusterClass: Validate variables in defaulting webhook (#8332)
- ClusterClass: avoid errors when MHC and upgrade occur together in classy clusters (#8464)
- ClusterClass: topology controller should avoid unnecessary rollouts during upgrades (#8628)
- ClusterClass: update TopologyReconciled condition on cluster deletion (#8422)
- ClusterResourceSet: : Make sure the Kubernetes API Server service already created on remote cluster before applying ClusterResourceSets (#8048)
- ClusterResourceSet: ClusterResourceSet: continue applying when apply for a single cluster failed (#8611)
- Dependency: Update kindnetd and kindest/haproxy (#8469)
- Devtools: Update clean-charts make target for new paths (#8904)
- Devtools: tilt: set CR logger in tilt-prepare, fix allowed contexts (#8919)
- IPAM: ipam: fix gateway being required for IPAddress (#8506)
- KCP: Allow machine rollout if cert reconcile fails (#8711)
- KCP: Ensure nil-pointer check in KCP syncMachines (#8481)
- KCP: Prevent KCP to create many private keys for each reconcile (#8617)
- KCP: enable updates from CloudInit (mostly ubuntu) based KCPs to Ignition (flatcar) based KCPs (#8339)
- Machine: bug fix to set node interruptible label (#8297)
- Machine: fix node label propagation (#8427)
- MachinePool: Add node watcher to MachinePool controller (#8443)
- MachinePool: Fix MachinePool node taint patching (#8462)
- MachinePool: MachinePool: always patch owned conditions, fix GetTypedPhase, doc fixes (#8627)
- MachinePool: Update MachinePool bootstrap dataSecretName when bootstrap config changes (#8667)
- Testing: Catch failure when fetching component URLs (#8455)
- Testing: Fix flake in machine phases test (#8370)
- Testing: Fix flaky wait in CRS test (#8334)
- Testing: Use CreateAndWait in MP ScaleFromZero test (#8927)
- Testing: internal/machine-controller fix flakes in phases test (#8576)
- Testing: machine-controller: fix phase tests race condition in tests on lastUpdated field (#8484)
- clusterctl: Add soft ownership from clusters to ClusterResourceSetBinding (#8318)
- clusterctl: Ensure all GitHub releases are fetched when searching provider versions (#8240)
- clusterctl: Return error on infra cluster and control plane discovery (#8604)
- clusterctl: Use local kustomize version in create-local-repository.py (#8414)
- clusterctl: clusterctl: return early if release for latest tag does not exist yet (#8253)
- clusterctl: handle nil pointer in clusterctl describe (#8724)
- e2e: Adjust machinepool helper e2e timeout (#8739)
- e2e: Fix length check in MD helper (#8352)
- e2e: Ignore cert annotation in rollout test (#8761)
- e2e: Increase timeout for clusterclass rollout test (#8897)
- e2e: Increased assertClusterObjects timeout (#8758)
- e2e: Pin kindest/node images to known good versions in clusterctl upgrade tests (#8860)
- e2e: Remove non-functioning ginkgo.no-color flag (#8703)
- e2e: Revert "Add calico as e2e test CNI" (#8575)
- e2e: test/e2e check for machines being ready after provisioning on Runtime SDK test (#8625)
- e2e: test/e2e: use topology cluster-template for clusterctl upgrade mgmt cluster (#8311)
- e2e: test/framework fix docker pod log collector (#8634)

## :seedling: Others
- API: Deprecate v1alpha3 and v1alpha4 in CRDs (#8687)
- CAPBK: replace reflect deepequal in bootstrap kubeadm (#8266)
- CAPD: Automatically set kubelet args for capd (#8881)
- CAPD: CAPD: only ignore necessary kubeadm preflight errors (#7911)
- CAPIM: Add startup timeout to the in memory provider (#8831)
- CAPIM: Add watch to in-memory server multiplexer (#8851)
- CAPIM: CAPIM: Enable update for coreDNS and kube-proxy (#8899)
- CAPIM: Fixups for watch in in-memory apiServer (#8898)
- CAPIM: Improve etcd management in CAPIM (#8906)
- CAPIM: add ClusterClass support for in-memory provider (#8807)
- CAPIM: fix readme for in-memory provider (#8905)
- CAPIM: test/e2e/in-memory: enable unit tests (#8886)
- CAPIM: test/e2e/in-memory: improve performance by fixing locking issues (#8895)
- CAPIM: test/e2e/in-memory: sync in-memory provider ClusterClass with test (#8892)
- CAPIM: test/infra/inmemory: rename controller files (#8830)
- CI: Add area/dependency label for dependabot when bumping gomod (#8410)
- CI: Add dependency label to github actions update (#8845)
- CI: Switch cloudbuild.yaml to e2 machine type (#8428)
- CI: verifier: change back to pull_request_target to make it work again (#8637)
- ClusterCacheTracker: ClusterCacheTracker: improve error when workload cluster is not reachable (#8801)
- ClusterCacheTracker: Deprecate DefaultIndex usage and remove where not needed (#8855)
- ClusterCacheTracker: Use ClusterCacheTracker consistently (instead of NewClusterClient) (#8744)
- ClusterCacheTracker: Use rest config from ClusterCacheTracker consistently (#8894)
- ClusterClass: cluster/topology: use cached MD list in get current state (#8922)
- ClusterClass: deprecate rolloutAfter in cluster topology (#8324)
- ClusterClass: upgrading control plane should only be blocked if MD are upgrading (not just rolling out) (#8658)
- Core: Cache unstructured in Cluster, MD and MS controller (#8916)
- Core: Remove unnecessary requeues (#8743)
- Dependency: Bump EndBug/add-and-commit from 9.1.1 to 9.1.2 (#8584)
- Dependency: Bump EndBug/add-and-commit from 9.1.2 to 9.1.3 (#8621)
- Dependency: Bump actions/checkout from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 (#8321)
- Dependency: Bump actions/checkout from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 (#8389)
- Dependency: Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.0 to 3.5.2 (#8540)
- Dependency: Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#8837)
- Dependency: Bump actions/setup-go from 3.5.0 to 4.0.1 (#8664)
- Dependency: Bump docker/distribution to v2.8.2 (#8645)
- Dependency: Bump gcb-docker-gcloud from v20230424-910a2a439d to v20230522-312425ae46 (#8770)
- Dependency: Bump gcb-docker-gcloud image (#8570)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/go-logr/logr from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 (#8461)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#8891)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.2 to 2.9.4 (#8622)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.4 to 2.9.5 (#8666)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.5 to 2.9.7 (#8792)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.7 to 2.10.0 (#8839)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.27.4 to 1.27.5 (#8390)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.27.6 to 1.27.7 (#8715)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.27.7 to 1.27.8 (#8841)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.14.0 to 1.15.0 (#8541)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.15.0 to 1.15.1 (#8623)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.15.1 to 1.16.0 (#8890)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0 (#8502)
- Dependency: Bump github.com/spf13/viper from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0 (#8791)
- Dependency: Bump golang version (1.20.3 -> 1.20.4) (#8749)
- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0 (#8503)
- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.7.0 to 0.8.0 (#8665)
- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 (#8889)
- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 (#8504)
- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 (#8840)
- Dependency: Bump golangci-lint to 1.52.1 and fix findings (#8331)
- Dependency: Bump golangci-lint to v1.51.2 (#8312)
- Dependency: Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 (#8790)
- Dependency: Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 (#8838)
- Dependency: Bump gomodules.xyz/jsonpatch/v2 from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 (#8716)
- Dependency: Bump kind to v0.19.0 (#8681)
- Dependency: Bump kindnet and haproxy images to latest (#8676)
- Dependency: Update KIND to v0.20.0 (#8908)
- Dependency: Update cert manager to v1.11.1 (#8529)
- Dependency: Update cert-manager to v1.11.2 (#8638)
- Dependency: Update cert-manager to v1.12.0 (#8702)
- Dependency: Update cert-manager to v1.12.1 (#8748)
- Dependency: Update controller runtime to 0.14.6 (#8405)
- Dependency: Update controller tools to v0.11.4 (#8547)
- Dependency: Update conversion-gen version (v0.26.0 -> v0.27.1) (#8573)
- Dependency: Update docker to v20.10.24 (#8475)
- Dependency: Update kind to v0.18.0 (#8433)
- Dependency: Update kpromo to v3.5.2 (#8487)
- Dependency: Update kpromo to v3.6.0 (#8680)
- Dependency: Update kubebuilder envtest (1.26.0 -> 1.27.1) (#8599)
- Dependency: Upgrade golang version (1.19.6 -> 1.20.3) (#8527)
- Devtools: Add go.work to .gitignore and .dockerignore (#8155)
- Devtools: Align kind registry script with upstream (#8731)
- Devtools: Pin delve to match go minor version (#8725)
- Devtools: bump containerd to 1.6.18 in hack/tools (#8523)
- Devtools: hack/observability: Add Grafana state dashboard, improve metrics (#8834)
- Devtools: hack/observability: Bump Loki, Grafana and promtail charts (#7182)
- Devtools: hack/observability: add tempo (for traces) (#8920)
- Devtools: hack/observability: disable unused loki-gateway (#8794)
- Devtools: hack/observability: improve Grafana dashboards (#8861)
- Devtools: hack/observability: move charts so they are ignored by go mod (#8795)
- IPAM: Make IPAddressClaim.Status.AddressRef optional (#8493)
- KCP: Change endpoints to endpoint in the etcd client (#8909)
- KCP: KCP: avoid panic if etcd server misbehaves (#8862)
- KCP: KCP: fix noisy error log triggered by missing patch helper (#8863)
- KCP: KCP: improve error log on scale up when Machine doesn't have a nodeRef (#8564)
- KCP: Kcp use one workload cluster for reconcile (#8900)
- KCP: Remove v1alpha2 adoption logic from KCP (#8328)
- Machine: controller/machine: use unstructured caching client (#8896)
- Machine: optimize `reconcileInterruptibleNodeLabel` of machine controller (#8852)
- Machine: use providerID string as-is (#8577)
- MachineDeployment: Drop the first return value from FindOldMachineSets (#8415)
- MachineSet: surface failed preflight checks on MachineSet in `MachinesCreated` condition (#8669)
- Release: Add area label lookup for prefixes to release notes tool (#8780)
- Release: Add runtime extension components to release (#8438)
- Release: Bump kpromo to v3.5.1 (#8301)
- Release: Improve release notes formatting (#8826)
- Release: Make release notes generation concurrent (#8817)
- Runtime SDK: Update handler name validation rules (#8280)
- Testing: Add calico as e2e test CNI (#8420)
- Testing: Add dualstack e2e test (#8517)
- Testing: Add unit test for health check during creation of a new cluster accessor (#8269)
- Testing: Allow overriding gingko args in e2e tests (#8365)
- Testing: Fix typos in phrase "to exist" (#8688)
- Testing: Merge ownerReference tests with quick start (#8264)
- Testing: Update e2e upgrade test versions (#8361)
- Testing: Update version matrix for github workflows (#8398)
- Testing: Validating the warnings in tests (#8778)
- clusterctl: Add move annotation on objects for cluster move operation (#8322)
- clusterctl: Bump controller-tools to v0.12 (#8581)
- clusterctl: CAPIM: use consistent spelling for release artifacts (#8853)
- clusterctl: Fix spelling mistake in clusterctl comment (#8344)
- clusterctl: Update cert-manager to v1.12.2 (#8883)
- clusterctl: clusterctl: Add labels to OWNERS file (#8342)
- clusterctl: prepare main branch for v1.5 development (#8430)
- control-plane: KCP: cache unstructured (#8913)
- control-plane: KCP: drop redundant get machines (#8912)
- e2e: Add Scale e2e - development only (#8833)
- e2e: Disable fail-fast by default for e2e tests (#8548)
- e2e: E2E: autoscaler e2e test (#8514)
- e2e: E2e: Unhold CI packages before installing (#7910)
- e2e: Improve gomega fail handling in clusterClass rollout (#8769)
- e2e: Improve logging for MachinePool upgrade test (#8728)
- e2e: Move ClusterClass quickstart test from e2e-informing to e2e-main (#8765)
- e2e: Pin cgroup driver used in v0.3 and v0.4 templates (#8684)
- e2e: add E2E test for MachineSet Preflight checks (#8698)
- e2e: assert E2E error responses when waiting for MD nodes (#8501)
- e2e: e2e: log leftover processes to eventually detect zombies (#8662)
- e2e: modify scale e2e test defaults (#8902)
- e2e: test/e2e: Fixup dump kube-system pods (#8809)
- e2e: test/e2e: also dump workload cluster kube-system pods (#8800)
- e2e: test/e2e: cleanup test files (#8557)
- e2e: test/framework: add functions to collect infrastructure logs in tests (#8675)
- util: Rename internal/util/ssa util functions for better naming consistency (#8423)
- util: util: cache list calls in cluster to objects mapper (#8918)

:book: Additionally, there have been 67 contributions to our documentation and book. (#8901, #8924, #8854, #8843, #8782, #8802, #8812, #8805, #8760, #8798, #8787, #8779, #8781, #8775, #8763, #8762, #8753, #8740, #8729, #8719, #8701, #8712, #8686, #8699, #8673, #8661, #8651, #8632, #8630, #8612, #8596, #8587, #8593, #8580, #8597, #8613, #8552, #8559, #8554, #8521, #8520, #8509, #8508, #8511, #8510, #8454, #8279, #8446, #8447, #8293, #8439, #8419, #8383, #8355, #8309, #8416, #8375, #8397, #8308, #8327, #8363, #8319, #8284, #8351, #8307, #8252, #8288)

_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊

## TODO
### Add area labels
- [x] Fix mesosphere link in proposal ([#8447](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8447))
- [x] docs/proposal: drop broken link to ClusterClass google doc ([#8554](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8554))
- [x] Use k8s v1.27.0 in quickstart docs and CAPD ([#8518](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8518))
- [x] Add flags for configuring rate limits ([#8579](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8579))
- [x] Implements Getter interface for IPAddressClaim object ([#8374](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8374))
- [x] Move mergeMap to util ([#8377](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8377))
- [x] add support or concurrent MD upgrades in classy clusters ([#8432](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8432))
- [x] ci: collect debug information about leftover processes ([#8734](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8734))
- [x] hack/observability: Add Parca, Bump observability tools, Add Grafana scale dashboard ([#8754](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8754))
- [x] : Make sure the Kubernetes API Server service already created on remote cluster before applying ClusterResourceSets ([#8048](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8048))
- [x] Add node watcher to MachinePool controller ([#8443](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8443))
- [x] Add soft ownership from clusters to ClusterResourceSetBinding ([#8318](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8318))
- [x] ClusterResourceSet: continue applying when apply for a single cluster failed ([#8611](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8611))
- [x] Drop uid from error messages ([#8333](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8333))
- [x] Ensure all GitHub releases are fetched when searching provider versions ([#8240](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8240))
- [x] Ensure nil-pointer check in KCP syncMachines ([#8481](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8481))
- [ ] Ensure ownerReference apiVersions are always up to date ([#8256](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8256))
- [x] Fix MachinePool node taint patching ([#8462](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8462))
- [x] Fix length check in MD helper ([#8352](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8352))
- [x] Ignore cert annotation in rollout test ([#8761](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8761))
- [x] Increased assertClusterObjects timeout ([#8758](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8758))
- [x] MachinePool: always patch owned conditions, fix GetTypedPhase, doc fixes ([#8627](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8627))
- [x] Move image from external host to CAPI repo ([#8587](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8587))
- [x] Remove non-functioning ginkgo.no-color flag ([#8703](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8703))
- [x] Revert “Add calico as e2e test CNI” ([#8575](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8575))
- [x] Validate variables in defaulting webhook ([#8332](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8332))
- [x] avoid errors when MHC and upgrade occur together in classy clusters ([#8464](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8464))
- [x] bug fix to set node interruptible label ([#8297](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8297))
- [x] enable updates from CloudInit (mostly ubuntu) based KCPs to Ignition (flatcar) based KCPs ([#8339](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8339))
- [x] fix cluster deletion in the in-memory API server ([#8818](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8818))
- [x] fix inmemory provider docker build ([#8822](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8822))
- [x] fix node label propagation ([#8427](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8427))
- [x] ignition: start kubeadm after network.target ([#8772](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8772))
- [x] internal/machine-controller fix flakes in phases test ([#8576](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8576))
- [x] ipam: fix gateway being required for IPAddress ([#8506](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8506))
- [x] set uninitialized taint only on worker nodes ([#8358](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8358))
- [x] test/e2e: use topology cluster-template for clusterctl upgrade mgmt cluster ([#8311](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8311))
- [x] verifier: use pull_request instead of pull_request_target ([#8635](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8635))
- [x] Add dependency label to github actions update ([#8845](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8845))
- [x] Add go.work to .gitignore and .dockerignore ([#8155](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8155))
- [x] Add startup timeout to the in memory provider ([#8831](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8831))
- [x] Add unit test for health check during creation of a new cluster accessor ([#8269](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8269))
- [x] Allow backport for experimental features ([#8293](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8293))
- [x] Bump EndBug/add-and-commit from 9.1.1 to 9.1.2 ([#8584](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8584))
- [x] Bump EndBug/add-and-commit from 9.1.2 to 9.1.3 ([#8621](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8621))
- [x] Bump actions/checkout from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 ([#8321](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8321))
- [x] Bump actions/checkout from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 ([#8389](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8389))
- [x] Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.0 to 3.5.2 ([#8540](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8540))
- [x] Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 ([#8837](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8837))
- [x] Bump actions/setup-go from 3.5.0 to 4.0.1 ([#8664](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8664))
- [x] Bump gcb-docker-gcloud from v20230424-910a2a439d to v20230522-312425ae46 ([#8770](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8770))
- [x] Bump gcb-docker-gcloud image ([#8570](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8570))
- [x] Bump github.com/go-logr/logr from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 ([#8461](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8461))
- [x] Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.27.4 to 1.27.5 ([#8390](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8390))
- [x] Bump golang version (1.20.3 -> 1.20.4) ([#8749](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8749))
- [x] Bump golangci-lint to 1.52.1 and fix findings ([#8331](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8331))
- [x] Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 ([#8838](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8838))
- [x] Bump kpromo to v3.5.1 ([#8301](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8301))
- [x] CAPD: only ignore necessary kubeadm preflight errors ([#7911](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/7911))
- [x] Drop the first return value from FindOldMachineSets ([#8415](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8415))
- [x] E2E: autoscaler e2e test ([#8514](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8514))
- [x] E2e: Unhold CI packages before installing ([#7910](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/7910))
- [x] KCP: improve error log on scale up when Machine doesn’t have a nodeRef ([#8564](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8564))
- [x] Make IPAddressClaim.Status.AddressRef optional ([#8493](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8493))
- [x] Move ClusterClass quickstart test from e2e-informing to e2e-main ([#8765](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8765))
- [x] Remove unnecessary requeues ([#8743](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8743))
- [x] Remove v1alpha2 adoption logic from KCP ([#8328](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8328))
- [x] Rename internal/util/ssa util functions for better naming consistency ([#8423](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8423))
- [x] Switch cloudbuild.yaml to e2 machine type ([#8428](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8428))
- [x] Update controller tools to v0.11.4 ([#8547](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8547))
- [x] Update conversion-gen version (v0.26.0 -> v0.27.1) ([#8573](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8573))
- [x] Upgrade golang version (1.19.6 -> 1.20.3) ([#8527](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8527))
- [x] Use ClusterCacheTracker consistently (instead of NewClusterClient) ([#8744](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8744))
- [x] Validating the warnings in tests ([#8778](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8778))
- [x] add ClusterClass support for in-memory provider ([#8807](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8807))
- [x] add E2E test for MachineSet Preflight checks ([#8698](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8698))
- [x] assert E2E error responses when waiting for MD nodes ([#8501](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8501))
- [x] bump containerd to 1.6.18 in hack/tools ([#8523](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8523))
- [x] deprecate rolloutAfter in cluster topology ([#8324](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8324))
- [x] hack/observability: Add Grafana state dashboard, improve metrics ([#8834](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8834))
- [x] hack/observability: Bump Loki, Grafana and promtail charts ([#7182](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/7182))
- [x] hack/observability: move charts so they are ignored by go mod ([#8795](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8795))
- [x] replace reflect deepequal in bootstrap kubeadm ([#8266](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8266))
- [x] surface failed preflight checks on MachineSet in MachinesCreated condition ([#8669](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8669))
- [x] test/e2e: Fixup dump kube-system pods ([#8809](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8809))
- [x] test/e2e: also dump workload cluster kube-system pods ([#8800](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8800))
- [x] test/e2e: cleanup test files ([#8557](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8557))
- [x] test/framework: add functions to collect infrastructure logs in tests ([#8675](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8675))
- [x] test/infra/inmemory: rename controller files ([#8830](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8830))
- [x] upgrading control plane should only be blocked if MD are upgrading (not just rolling out) ([#8658](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8658))
- [x] verifier: change back to pull_request_target to make it work again ([#8637](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8637))

### Remove multiple area labels

- [x] [dependency|clusterctl]: Update cert manager to v1.11.1 ([#8529](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8529))
- [x] [dependency|clusterctl]: Update cert-manager to v1.11.2 ([#8638](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8638))
- [x] [dependency|clusterctl]: Update cert-manager to v1.12.1 ([#8748](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8748))
- [x] [release|clusterctl]: Make release notes generation concurrent ([#8817](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8817))

### Formatting improvement
> Add tasks here as we review the notes and identify formatting changes
- [ ] Capitalize all types i.e. machinepool -> MachinePool, clustercachetracker -> ClusterCacheTracker, clusterclass -> ClusterClass
- [ ] Capitalize areas i.e. testing -> Testing, release -> Release