[ANNOUNCE] Cluster API v1.7.8, v1.8.5 and v1.9.0-beta.0 has been released!

[Chandan Kumar]

Hello everyone,

Cluster API v1.7.8, v1.8.5 and v1.9.0-beta.0 has been released 🎉🎉
Overview:

• 2 new commits merged in v1.7.8
• 9 new commits and 2 bugs fixed in v1.8.5

Deprecations and Removals from v1.9.0-beta.0

• The --clustercachetracker-concurrency, --clustercachetracker-client-qps and --clustercachetracker-client-burst flags on all core CAPI controllers have been renamed to --clustercache-concurrency, --clustercache-client-qps and --clustercache-client-burst
• ClusterCacheTracker: Deprecate CCT ErrClusterLocked (#11340)
• ClusterCacheTracker: Deprecate ClusterCacheTracker (#11312)
• API: Deprecate FailureMessage and FailureReason (#11317)

by our awesome contributors! Kudos!

Please see the release notes for the full list of changes.
Release v1.7.8 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)
Release v1.8.5 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)
Release v1.9.0-beta.0 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)

Thanks to all our contributors!

Best,
CAPI Release Team