[ANNOUNCE] Cluster API v1.8.0-rc.1 has been released!

[Chandan Kumar]

Hello everyone,

Cluster API v1.8.0-rc.1 has been released! 🎉🎉

🚨  This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an issue.

Highlights

• Bumped to controller-runtime v0.18, k8s.io/* v0.30, controller-gen v0.15, Go 1.22
• API: Add support for negative polarity conditions
• API: Allow control plane provider to set control plane endpoint
• CABPK: Add kubeadm v1beta4 types (including ExtraEnvs and ImagePullSerial)
• CABPK: Allow to generate JoinConfiguration discovery kubeconfig

Please see the release notes for the full list of changes.
Release v1.8.0-rc.1 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)

Thanks to all our contributors!

Best,
CAPI Release Team