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+🚨 This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an [issue](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/new).
+
+## Highlights
+
+* Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation
+* Add public function to create new CRD migrator
+* Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment
+
+<details>
+<summary>More details about the release</summary>
+
+:warning: **BETA RELEASE NOTES** :warning: 
+
+## 👌 Kubernetes version support
+
+- Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.29.x
+- Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.29.x
+
+[More information about version support can be found here](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/versions.html)
+
+## Changes since v1.6.0
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 306 new commits merged
+- 4 breaking changes :warning:
+- 11 feature additions ✨
+- 37 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :memo: Proposals
+- MachinePool: Update MachinePool Machines proposal with diagrams (#9664)
+
+## :warning: Breaking Changes
+- Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.17.0 & k8s.io v0.29 (#9964)
+- Logging: Make event recorder names consistent for KCP and topology controller (#9862)
+- KCP/MachineSet: Objects generated by KCP, MachineSets and MachinePools will now consistently use machine name (#9833)
+
+## :sparkles: New Features
+- API: Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation (#10154)
+- clusterctl: Add k0smotron provider (#9991)
+- clusterctl: Add public function to create new CRD migrator (#10075)
+- Control-plane: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9871)
+- MachineDeployment: Add MachineSetReady condition to MachineDeployment (#9262)
+- MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts (#10223)
+- MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation (#10202)
+- Release: Add utility to create git issues on provider repo (#9110)
+- Release: Add dependencies section to release notes tool (#10043)
+- Testing: Resolve release markers (#9265)
+- Testing: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9872)
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- API: Use ptr instead of own implementation (#10276)
+- API/e2e: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#10147)
+- CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9894)
+- CAPD: Remove --enable-hostpath-provisioner flag (#10271)
+- CAPD: Remove duplicate fix for btrfs/zfs support (#8376)
+- CABPK: Only refresh bootstrap token if needed, requeue in all cases where node hasn't joined yet (#9229)
+- ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#9543)
+- ClusterCacheTracker: Use RequeueAfter instead of immediate requeue on ErrClusterLocked to not have exponentially increasing requeue time (#9810)
+- clusterctl: Move handlePlugins function call out of init to allow debugging tests (#10200)
+- clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9808)
+- ClusterResourceSet: Requeue after 1 minute if ErrClusterLocked got hit (#9777)
+- Control-plane: KCP should defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning (#9734)
+- Devtools: Tilt: Show default cluster-template (#9820)
+- e2e: Add wait for MachineList to be available (#10301)
+- e2e: Ci: fix unset GINKGO_FOCUS variable (#10085)
+- e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9960)
+- e2e: Re-introduce exclude capi-webhook-system to fix test flake (#10157)
+- e2e: Calculate correct worker count in clusterctl upgrade test (#9892)
+- e2e: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#9891)
+- e2e: retry GetOwnerGraph in owner references test on certificate errors (#10201)
+- IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9861)
+- KCP: Skip checking `clusterConfiguration.dns` fields when KCP checking MachineNeedRollout (#9857)
+- Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9813)
+- Machine: Bubble up machine drain condition in `MachinesReadyCondition` (#9355)
+- Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10041)
+- MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9745)
+- Release: Fix Community meeting area formatting in release notes (#9784)
+- Release: Fix defaulting logic in release notes tool (#9958)
+- Release: Fix documentation area comparison in release notes (#9769)
+- Release: Fix kubeadm bootstrap prefix in release notes (#9814)
+- Release: Fix wrong branch name display for weekly update script (#9918)
+- Runtime SDK: Use keys/values structured log interface (#9998)
+- Testing: Revert "Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller" (#9985)
+- Testing: Reverting ginkgo.show-node-events to ginkgo.progress (#10214)
+- Testing: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9914)
+- Testing: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9819)
+- util: Add tests and update provider_issues.go (#10264)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- API: Stop relying on GVK being set on regular typed objects (#9956)
+- Bootstrap: Add MachinePool test for switching bootstrap config to another ready/non-ready object with different name (#9616)
+- CABPK: Add pod metadata to capbk manager (#10208)
+- CAPD: Feat: make docker machine bootstrap timeout configurable (#9952)
+- CAPD: Remove requeues in DockerMachinePool (#9725)
+- CAPD: Support configuring ExtraPortMappings for the kind cluster (#10046)
+- CAPIM: Add namespaces to the list of resource handled by the in-memory API server (#10297)
+- CAPIM: Allow using different resource group and listener name with the in memory server (#10096)
+- CAPIM: Make in memory API server more tolerant when starting (#10211)
+- CAPIM: Make in memory runtime and server accessible from outside (#9986)
+- CAPIM: Test/inmemory: use port only to identify the wcl to make port-forward… (#10245)
+- CI: Add fail fast to DumpResourcesForCluster in case of no route to host (#10204)
+- CI: Added go directive test (#10261)
+- CI: Bump conversion-gen to v0.29.0 (#10012)
+- CI: Bump go-apidiff to v0.8.2 (#10011)
+- CI: Bump govulncheck to v1.0.4 (#10274)
+- CI: Bump kpromo to v4.0.5 (#10140)
+- CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10013)
+- CI: DumpResourcesForCluster should fail fast for i/o errors (#10238)
+- CI: Ensure build images contains correct binary and for correct architecture (#9932)
+- CI: Fix Make target generate-go-openapi (#10161)
+- CI: Fix TestPatchNode flake (#10287)
+- CI: Hack/prowjob-gen skip creating empty files (#10022)
+- CI: Hack: implement generator for prowjobs (#9937)
+- CI: Makefile: bump dependencies (#10236)
+- CI: bump WorkloadKubernetesVersion for v1.6 clusterctl upgrade test (#10017)
+- CI: adjust capd dockerfile so the binary exposes the package in the built binraries path variable (#10030)
+- CI: Update GH actions to work with new release-1.6 branch (#9708)
+- ClusterClass: Add ClusterClass variables metadata (#10308)
+- ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools for webhooks and cc controller (#10055)
+- ClusterClass: Add unit tests for MachinePools in topology/scope package (#10052)
+- ClusterClass: Implement topology validations for topology kubernetes version upgrades (#10063)
+- ClusterClass: Webhooks: use the alias for ClusterCacheTrackerReader instead of the internal reference (#10309)
+- clusterctl: Add 0 default to worker-machine-count help (#10203)
+- clusterctl: Add completion for fish shell (#9950)
+- clusterctl: Add hivelocity infra provider to clusterctl (#10168)
+- clusterctl: Add in-cluster ipam provider (#8811)
+- clusterctl: Add Proxmox provider quickstart (#9798)
+- clusterctl: Better verbose logging on override path (#10180)
+- clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.2 (#10126)
+- clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.4 (#10267)
+- clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.1 (#10113)
+- clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#9975)
+- clusterctl: Deprecate clusterctl alpha topology plan (#10139)
+- clusterctl: Replace context.TODO() from clusterctl proxy.go (#9776)
+- Community meeting: Move CecileRobertMichon to emeritus (#10042)
+- Community meeting: Move ykakarap to emeritus approvers (#10000)
+- Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintainer (#9997)
+- Dependency: Bump `github.com/docker/docker` from 24.0.7 -> 25.0.0 (#10057)
+- Dependency: Bump `golangci-lint` to v1.56.1 (#10124)
+- Dependency: Bump controller-runtime to v0.17.1 (#10131)
+- Dependency: Bump controller-runtime to v0.17.2 (#10162)
+- Dependency: Bump controller-tools to v0.14 (#9987)
+- Dependency: Bump crypto dep version (#9938)
+- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0 (#10284)
+- Dependency: Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.31.1 to 1.32.0 (#10285)
+- Dependency: Bump Go to 1.21.5 (#9900)
+- Dependency: Bump go version to 1.21.8 (#10235)
+- Dependency: Bump kind version to v0.22.0 (#10094)
+- Dependency: Bump protobuf to v1.33.0 to address CVEs (#10248)
+- Dependency: Bump the kubernetes group to v0.28.5 (#9933)
+- Dependency: Bump the kubernetes group with 8 updates (#10286)
+- Dependency: Bump to Go 1.20.12 (#9840)
+- Dependency: Bump github.com/docker/docker from 25.0.4+incompatible to 25.0.5+incompatible (#10302)
+- Dependency: Go.mod: bump github.com/cloudflare/circl to v1.3.7 (#10001)
+- Devtools: Add missing folder to clean-tilt make target (#9934)
+- Devtools: Allow tilt provider with pre-build images (#10244)
+- Devtools: Explicitly set golangci config for sub modules (#9821)
+- Devtools: Fix variables names in Tiltfile (#9811)
+- Devtools: Implement privileged namespace security policy update for tilt-prepare (#10178)
+- Devtools: Simplify testing nightly builds with clusterctl (#10018)
+- Devtools: Small improvements to tilt (#9936)
+- e2e: Add conformance e2e tests (#10060)
+- e2e: Add DeepCopy method for E2EConfig (#9988)
+- e2e: Add PostCreateNamespace hook to E2E tests (#10067)
+- e2e: Add test util to resolve Kubernetes versions (#9995)
+- e2e: Allow to specify cluster name for E2E quick-start (#10088)
+- e2e: Bump cluster-autoscaler to v1.29.0 (#9942)
+- e2e: Drop duplicated scale test (#9968)
+- e2e: Fix ci-latest test to actually use ci latest (#10080)
+- e2e: Fix CRS e2e helper with multiple bindings (#10191)
+- e2e: Improve output of exec.KubectlApply (#9737)
+- e2e: Make etcd and CoreDNS optional in upgrade and self-hosted tests (#9963)
+- e2e: add WatchDaemonSetLogsByLabelSelector method (#9984)
+- e2e: expose CopyAndAmendClusterctlConfig function (#10086)
+- e2e: combine Finalizers tests to default quick start tests (#10039)
+- e2e: Use --wait-providers in test framework InitWithBinary func (#10149)
+- e2e: Use manager in test extension (#10097)
+- e2e: Add scale testing for upgrades (#9077)
+- Machine: Be more explicit when skipping node deletion (#10137)
+- Machine: Mark Machine healthy condition as unknown if we can't list wl nodes (#9864)
+- MachineDeployment: Set revision on machinedeployment and patch via defer (#10160)
+- MachinePool: Use SSA Patch to create machines in MP controller (#9791)
+- MachineSet: improve replica defaulting for autoscaler (#9649)
+- KCP/MachineSet: remove hardcoded WithStepCounterIf(false) (#9772)
+- Release: Add integration test for release notes tool (#9617)
+- Release: Bump kubebuilder-release-tools to v0.4.3 (#9818)
+- Release: Changelog entry to include cert-manager to v1.14.2 (#10188)
+- Release: Fix dockerfile for clusterctl build (#10058)
+- Release: Fix grammar in release script (#9981)
+- Release: Improve release-staging build (#10095)
+- Release: Improve weekly PR update generation script and documentation (#10092)
+- Release: Make release notes tool not dependent on local git (#9618)
+- Release: Prep main branch for v1.7 development (#9799)
+- Release: Provide faster support for new k8s minor releases (#9971)
+- Release: Read in dockerfiles from stdin (#9990)
+- Release: Release v1.5.7 (#10251)
+- Release: Release v1.6.3 (#10252)
+- Release: Swap in new 1.7 RT members in OWNERS (#9855)
+- Runtime SDK: Add more helper functions in topologymutation varaible.go to help unmarshal variables (#9670)
+- Testing: Drop policy v1beta1 API support in the testing framework (#10158)
+- Testing: Drop unused runtime features for the in-memory provider (#9778)
+- Testing: Fix typo in test framework (#9873)
+- Testing: Fixing kubetest warnings for deprecations (#10172)
+- Testing: Print conformance image used in kubetest (#10076)
+- Testing: Remove k8s.io/utils/pointer from repository (#9836)
+- Testing: Small improvements to the inmemory api server (#9935)
+- Testing: add dynamic finalizer assertions for e2e framework (#9970)
+- Testing: Watch for Cluster resources in topology MachineSet & MachineDeployment controllers (#10029)
+- Testing: Watch for Cluster resources in topology MD controller (#9865)
+- util: Improve patch helper error handling (#9946)
+- util: Use min/max funcs from Go SDK (#9945)
+
+:book: Additionally, there have been 46 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10005, #10031, #10040, #10061, #10066, #10068, #10084, #10099, #10100, #10115, #10122, #10170, #10174, #10194, #10239, #10257, #10268, #10288, #9585, #9640, #9767, #9771, #9779, #9782, #9786, #9794, #9797, #9801, #9817, #9829, #9831, #9838, #9856, #9866, #9867, #9868, #9876, #9896, #9897, #9908, #9941, #9949, #9957, #9961, #9972, #9993) 
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+- github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/v2: [v2.0.0](https://github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/tree/v2.0.0)
+
+### Changed
+- cloud.google.com/go/accessapproval: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/accesscontextmanager: v1.8.1 → v1.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/aiplatform: v1.48.0 → v1.52.0
+- cloud.google.com/go/analytics: v0.21.3 → v0.21.6
+- cloud.google.com/go/apigateway: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/apigeeconnect: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/apigeeregistry: v0.7.1 → v0.8.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/appengine: v1.8.1 → v1.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/area120: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/artifactregistry: v1.14.1 → v1.14.6
+- cloud.google.com/go/asset: v1.14.1 → v1.15.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/assuredworkloads: v1.11.1 → v1.11.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/automl: v1.13.1 → v1.13.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/baremetalsolution: v1.1.1 → v1.2.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/batch: v1.3.1 → v1.6.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/beyondcorp: v1.0.0 → v1.0.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/bigquery: v1.53.0 → v1.57.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/billing: v1.16.0 → v1.17.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/binaryauthorization: v1.6.1 → v1.7.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/certificatemanager: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/channel: v1.16.0 → v1.17.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/cloudbuild: v1.13.0 → v1.14.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/clouddms: v1.6.1 → v1.7.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/cloudtasks: v1.12.1 → v1.12.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/compute: v1.23.0 → v1.23.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/contactcenterinsights: v1.10.0 → v1.11.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/container: v1.24.0 → v1.27.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/containeranalysis: v0.10.1 → v0.11.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/datacatalog: v1.16.0 → v1.18.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/dataflow: v0.9.1 → v0.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/dataform: v0.8.1 → v0.9.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/datafusion: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/datalabeling: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/dataplex: v1.9.0 → v1.11.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/v2: v2.0.1 → v2.2.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/dataqna: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/datastore: v1.13.0 → v1.15.0
+- cloud.google.com/go/datastream: v1.10.0 → v1.10.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/deploy: v1.13.0 → v1.14.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/dialogflow: v1.40.0 → v1.44.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/dlp: v1.10.1 → v1.11.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/documentai: v1.22.0 → v1.23.5
+- cloud.google.com/go/domains: v0.9.1 → v0.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/edgecontainer: v1.1.1 → v1.1.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/essentialcontacts: v1.6.2 → v1.6.5
+- cloud.google.com/go/eventarc: v1.13.0 → v1.13.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/filestore: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/firestore: v1.13.0 → v1.14.0
+- cloud.google.com/go/functions: v1.15.1 → v1.15.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/gkebackup: v1.3.0 → v1.3.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/gkeconnect: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.14.1 → v0.14.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v1.0.0 → v1.0.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/iam: v1.1.1 → v1.1.5
+- cloud.google.com/go/iap: v1.8.1 → v1.9.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/ids: v1.4.1 → v1.4.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/iot: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/kms: v1.15.0 → v1.15.5
+- cloud.google.com/go/language: v1.10.1 → v1.12.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/lifesciences: v0.9.1 → v0.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/logging: v1.7.0 → v1.8.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/longrunning: v0.5.1 → v0.5.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/managedidentities: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/maps: v1.4.0 → v1.6.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/mediatranslation: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/memcache: v1.10.1 → v1.10.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/metastore: v1.12.0 → v1.13.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/monitoring: v1.15.1 → v1.16.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/networkconnectivity: v1.12.1 → v1.14.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/networkmanagement: v1.8.0 → v1.9.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/networksecurity: v0.9.1 → v0.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/notebooks: v1.9.1 → v1.11.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/optimization: v1.4.1 → v1.6.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/orchestration: v1.8.1 → v1.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/orgpolicy: v1.11.1 → v1.11.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/osconfig: v1.12.1 → v1.12.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/oslogin: v1.10.1 → v1.12.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/phishingprotection: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/policytroubleshooter: v1.8.0 → v1.10.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/privatecatalog: v0.9.1 → v0.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/recaptchaenterprise/v2: v2.7.2 → v2.8.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/recommendationengine: v0.8.1 → v0.8.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/recommender: v1.10.1 → v1.11.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/redis: v1.13.1 → v1.14.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/resourcemanager: v1.9.1 → v1.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/resourcesettings: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/retail: v1.14.1 → v1.14.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/run: v1.2.0 → v1.3.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/scheduler: v1.10.1 → v1.10.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/secretmanager: v1.11.1 → v1.11.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/security: v1.15.1 → v1.15.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/securitycenter: v1.23.0 → v1.24.2
+- cloud.google.com/go/servicedirectory: v1.11.0 → v1.11.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/shell: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/spanner: v1.47.0 → v1.51.0
+- cloud.google.com/go/speech: v1.19.0 → v1.20.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/storage: v1.14.0 → v1.35.1
+- cloud.google.com/go/storagetransfer: v1.10.0 → v1.10.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/talent: v1.6.2 → v1.6.5
+- cloud.google.com/go/texttospeech: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/tpu: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/trace: v1.10.1 → v1.10.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/translate: v1.8.2 → v1.9.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/video: v1.19.0 → v1.20.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/videointelligence: v1.11.1 → v1.11.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/vision/v2: v2.7.2 → v2.7.5
+- cloud.google.com/go/vmmigration: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/vmwareengine: v1.0.0 → v1.0.3
+- cloud.google.com/go/vpcaccess: v1.7.1 → v1.7.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/webrisk: v1.9.1 → v1.9.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/websecurityscanner: v1.6.1 → v1.6.4
+- cloud.google.com/go/workflows: v1.11.1 → v1.12.3
+- cloud.google.com/go: v0.110.7 → v0.110.10
+- github.com/cloudflare/circl: [v1.3.3 → v1.3.7](https://github.com/cloudflare/circl/compare/v1.3.3...v1.3.7)
+- github.com/evanphx/json-patch/v5: [v5.7.0 → v5.9.0](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.7.0...v5.9.0)
+- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v5.7.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v5.7.0)
+- github.com/frankban/quicktest: [v1.14.4 → v1.14.6](https://github.com/frankban/quicktest/compare/v1.14.4...v1.14.6)
+- github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify: [v1.6.0 → v1.7.0](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0)
+- github.com/go-logr/logr: [v1.3.0 → v1.4.1](https://github.com/go-logr/logr/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.1)
+- github.com/go-logr/zapr: [v1.2.4 → v1.3.0](https://github.com/go-logr/zapr/compare/v1.2.4...v1.3.0)
+- github.com/golang/mock: [v1.4.4 → v1.4.0](https://github.com/golang/mock/compare/v1.4.4...v1.4.0)
+- github.com/golang/protobuf: [v1.5.3 → v1.5.4](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/compare/v1.5.3...v1.5.4)
+- github.com/google/cel-go: [v0.16.1 → v0.17.7](https://github.com/google/cel-go/compare/v0.16.1...v0.17.7)
+- github.com/google/uuid: [v1.3.1 → v1.4.0](https://github.com/google/uuid/compare/v1.3.1...v1.4.0)
+- github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy: [v0.3.1 → v0.3.2](https://github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy/compare/v0.3.1...v0.3.2)
+- github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go-testing: [bcd43fb → 1c9a4c6](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go-testing/compare/bcd43fb...1c9a4c6)
+- github.com/gorilla/websocket: [v1.4.2 → v1.5.0](https://github.com/gorilla/websocket/compare/v1.4.2...v1.5.0)
+- github.com/nats-io/nats.go: [v1.30.2 → v1.31.0](https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go/compare/v1.30.2...v1.31.0)
+- github.com/nats-io/nkeys: [v0.4.5 → v0.4.6](https://github.com/nats-io/nkeys/compare/v0.4.5...v0.4.6)
+- github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2: [v2.13.1 → v2.17.1](https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/compare/v2.13.1...v2.17.0)
+- github.com/onsi/gomega: [v1.30.0 → v1.32.0](https://github.com/onsi/gomega/compare/v1.30.0...v1.32.0)
+- github.com/pkg/sftp: [v1.13.1 → v1.13.6](https://github.com/pkg/sftp/compare/v1.13.1...v1.13.6)
+- github.com/prometheus/client_golang: [v1.17.0 → v1.18.0](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/compare/v1.17.0...v1.18.0)
+- github.com/prometheus/client_model: [9a2bf30 → v0.5.0](https://github.com/prometheus/client_model/compare/9a2bf30...v0.5.0)
+- github.com/prometheus/common: [v0.44.0 → v0.45.0](https://github.com/prometheus/common/compare/v0.44.0...v0.45.0)
+- github.com/prometheus/procfs: [v0.11.1 → v0.12.0](https://github.com/prometheus/procfs/compare/v0.11.1...v0.12.0)
+- github.com/sagikazarmark/crypt: [v0.15.0 → v0.17.0](https://github.com/sagikazarmark/crypt/compare/v0.15.0...v0.17.0)
+- github.com/sagikazarmark/locafero: [v0.3.0 → v0.4.0](https://github.com/sagikazarmark/locafero/compare/v0.3.0...v0.4.0)
+- github.com/spf13/afero: [v1.10.0 → v1.11.0](https://github.com/spf13/afero/compare/v1.10.0...v1.11.0)
+- github.com/spf13/cast: [v1.5.1 → v1.6.0](https://github.com/spf13/cast/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0)
+- github.com/spf13/viper: [v1.17.0 → v1.18.2](https://github.com/spf13/viper/compare/v1.17.0...v1.18.2)
+- go.etcd.io/bbolt: v1.3.7 → v1.3.8
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3: v3.5.10 → v3.5.12
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3: v3.5.10 → v3.5.12
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v2: v2.305.9 → v2.305.10
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3: v3.5.10 → v3.5.12
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/pkg/v3: v3.5.9 → v3.5.10
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/raft/v3: v3.5.9 → v3.5.10
+- go.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3: v3.5.9 → v3.5.10
+- go.uber.org/zap: v1.25.0 → v1.26.0
+- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.15.0 → v0.21.0
+- golang.org/x/lint: 83fdc39 → 910be7a
+- golang.org/x/mod: v0.13.0 → v0.14.0
+- golang.org/x/net: v0.18.0 → v0.22.0
+- golang.org/x/oauth2: v0.14.0 → v0.18.0
+- golang.org/x/sync: v0.4.0 → v0.6.0
+- golang.org/x/sys: v0.14.0 → v0.18.0
+- golang.org/x/term: v0.14.0 → v0.18.0
+- golang.org/x/time: v0.3.0 → v0.5.0
+- golang.org/x/tools: v0.14.0 → v0.17.0
+- google.golang.org/api: v0.143.0 → v0.153.0
+- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: 007df8e → bbf56f3
+- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: e6e6cda → 83a465c
+- google.golang.org/genproto: 007df8e → bbf56f3
+- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.31.0 → v1.33.0
+- honnef.co/go/tools: v0.0.1-2020.1.4 → v0.0.1-2019.2.3
+- k8s.io/api: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/apimachinery: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/apiserver: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/cli-runtime: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/client-go: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/code-generator: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/component-base: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/component-helpers: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/gengo: c0856e2 → 9cce18d
+- k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.100.1 → v2.110.1
+- k8s.io/kms: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/kube-openapi: 2695361 → 2dd684a
+- k8s.io/kubectl: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/metrics: v0.28.4 → v0.29.3
+- k8s.io/utils: d93618c → b307cd5
+- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.1.2 → v0.28.0
+- sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime: v0.16.3 → v0.17.2
+- sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4: v4.2.3 → v4.4.1
+
+### Removed
+- github.com/benbjohnson/clock: [v1.3.0](https://github.com/benbjohnson/clock/tree/v1.3.0)
+- github.com/docker/distribution: [v2.8.3+incompatible](https://github.com/docker/distribution/tree/v2.8.3)
+- github.com/google/martian/v3: [v3.1.0](https://github.com/google/martian/tree/v3.1.0)
+- github.com/minio/highwayhash: [v1.0.2](https://github.com/minio/highwayhash/tree/v1.0.2)
+- github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2: [v2.4.1](https://github.com/nats-io/jwt/tree/v2.4.1)
+- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/internal/retry: v1.10.0
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊