v1.6.2

Highlights

• ⚠️ Warning: This release fixes a bug (#10051) that was introduced in v1.6.0, which caused a regression in the conversion of v1alpha3/v1alpha4 objects. It is recommended to upgrade to v1.6.2 to avoid the issue.

👌 Kubernetes version support

• Management Cluster: v1.25.x -> v1.29.x
• Workload Cluster: v1.23.x -> v1.29.x

More information about version support can be found here

Changes since v1.6.1

📈 Overview

• 16 new commits merged
• 3 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [API/e2e]: Restore v1alpha3/v1alpha4 conversion to fix SSA issue & add e2e test coverage (#10151)
  • ⚠️ Warning: This change is a fix for the conversion bug that was introduced in v1.6.0.
• ClusterCacheTracker: Fix ClusterCacheTracker memory leak (#10064)
• Machine: Watch external objects for machine before deleting (#10177)

🌱 Others

• clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.14.2 (#10120) (#10127)
• clusterctl: Clarify rules for adding new clusterctl default providers (#10109)
• Community meeting: Promote chrischdi to Cluster API maintainer (#10089)
• Dependency: Bump controller runtime v0.16.5 (#10163)
• Dependency: Bump Go to 1.21.5 (#10152)
• e2e: Use manager in test extension (#10106)
• Testing: Print conformance image used in kubetest (#10081)

📖 Additionally, there have been 4 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10024, #10047, #10105, #10116)

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊