v1.4.2

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.23.x -> v1.27.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.21.x -> v1.27.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.4.1

📈 Overview

• 25 new commits merged
• 0 breaking changes ⚠️
• 2 feature additions ✨
• 9 bugs fixed 🐛

✨ New Features

• CAPD: Use k8s v1.27.0 in quickstart docs and CAPD (#8538)
• ClusterClass: add support or concurrent MD upgrades in classy clusters (#8528)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ClusterClass: avoid errors when MHC and upgrade occur together in classy clusters (#8568)
• Dependency: Update kindnetd and kindest/haproxy (#8470)
• e2e: Catch failure when fetching component URLs (#8489)
• IPAM: fix gateway being required for IPAddress (#8574)
• KCP: Ensure nil-pointer check in KCP syncMachines (#8488)
• MachinePool: Add node watcher to MachinePool controller (#8474)
• Testing: internal/machine-controller fix flakes in phases test (#8590)
• Testing: machine-controller: fix phase tests race condition in tests on lastUpdated field (#8491)

🌱 Others

• Dependency: Update controller-tools to v1.11.4 (#8555)
• Dependency: Update cert manager to v1.11.1 (#8532)
• Dependency: Update kind to v1.18.0 (#8434)
• Dependency: Update docker to v20.10.24 (#8476)
• e2e: assert E2E error responses when waiting for MD nodes (#8516)
• e2e: use topology flavor for workload clusters in clusterctl upgrade test (#8550)
• IPAM: Make IPAddressClaim.Status.AddressRef optional (#8530)

📖 Additionally, there have been 8 contributions to our documentation and book. (#8582, #8562, #8537, #8512, #8513, #8482, #8556, #8589)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊