[ANNOUNCE] Cluster API v1.8.1 with Kubernetes v1.31 support

[Stefan Büringer]

Hello everyone,

Cluster API v1.8.1 with Kubernetes v1.31 support has been released 🎉🎉

Please see the release notes for the full list of changes.
Release v1.8.1 · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api (github.com)

Thanks to all our contributors!

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