Cluster API v1.5.8, v1.6.4, & v1.7.0 has been released!

[Chandan Kumar]

Hello everyone,

Cluster API v1.5.8, v1.6.4, & v1.7.0 has been released 🎉

This release was focused on improving existing features and the stability of CAPI.

There were a total of 11 commits and 5 bugs fixed for v1.5.8, 21 commits and 8 bugs fixed for v1.6.4, and 339 commits, 5 breaking changes, 12 feature additions, and 48 bugs fixed for v1.7.0 by our awesome contributors! Kudos!

Highlights for v1.7.0

• MachinePool: promoted to beta and enabled per default
• MachineDeployment: Taint nodes with PreferNoSchedule during rollouts
• MachineHealthCheck: implement annotation to manually mark machines for remediation
• KCP improvements
• Enable kubeadm feature gates mutation
• Defer remediation when a control plane machine is still provisioning
• Prefer deletion of Machines with unhealthy control plane components during rollout
• ClusterClass improvements
• Add variable metadata
• Improved version validation if an update is already in progress
• Improved unit and e2e test coverage for ClusterClass with MachinePools
• Various improvements to our e2e tests to increase test coverage and reduce flakes to improve our CI signal
• Implemented prowjob-gen to make it easier to manage our ProwJobs

Please see the release notes for the full list of changes.

• Release v1.5.8 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)
• Release v1.6.4 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)
• Release v1.7.0 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)

Thanks to all our contributors!

Best,
CAPI Release Team