v0.12.0-beta.0

Changes since v0.11.0

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Remove support for Ironic before 2024.1 (#2756)
• Completely remove support for ironic-inspector (#2755)
• Drop the non-Redfish iLO 4 and iLO 5 drivers (#2750)
• Change architecture default to match controller (#2698)

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

More details about the release

✨ New Features

• Capture and store LLDP data in HardwareData (#2752)
• Allow recovering hardware details from existing HardwareData (#2754)
• Integrate with IrSO for getting Ironic details (#2713)
• Add namespace scoped mode (#2529)
• Introduce InspectionMode field (#2670)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Make bootMACAddress webhook validation case-insensitive (#2740)
• Create a PreprovisioningImage for servicing if needed (#2690)

📖 Documentation

• Add release-0.11 test triggers to README (#2685)
• Add alpha release in release documentation (#2655)
• Update info on running e2e locally (#2642)

🌱 Others

• Bump k8s.io modules to v0.34.1 and CR to v0.22.4 (#2779)
• E2E: External inspection name collision fix (#2775)
• E2E: Remove duplicate inspection test (#2746)
• Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-beta.0 (#2764)
• E2E: Pre-download IPA and serve from disk image server (#2760)
• Update to Pull request template (#2753)
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2.3.3 to 2.4.1 in the github-actions group (#2757)
• vbmctl: support multiple network interfaces (#2207)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.26.0 to 2.27.2 in /test (#2747)
• E2E: Improve logs and artifacts in upgrade tests (#2744)
• E2E: Make use of DisableCertificateVerification setting (#2715)
• Add release manifests (#2736)
• Uplift go 1.24.9 to address CVEs (#2718)
• E2E: Use IrSO also in upgrade tests (#2729)
• E2E: Bump IrSO version to v0.5.2 and unify yaml formatting (#2733)
• VBMCTL: Avoid re-using the default storage pool (#2365)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 in /hack/tools (#2724)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 in /test (#2725)
• Bump github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator/api from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0 in /test (#2726)
• Do not use os.Exit outside of cmd (#2717)
• Align BMO e2e optional test to namespace scoped config (#2716)
• Replace ironic deployment with IrSO in e2e (#2681)
• Dockerfile: strip out symbol table by default for public images (#2711)
• cmd: strip out symbol table & DWARF debugging info (#2709)
• E2E: Drop periodic job for release-0.8 (#2704)
• add specific time to dependabot config (#2703)
• E2E: Change how upgrade tests are cleaned up (#2697)
• Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 4 updates (#2700)
• Fix OSV-Scanner (#2677)
• Increase optional periodic test time (#2696)
• Bump go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3 from 3.6.4 to 3.6.5 (#2693)
• E2E: Make timeout configurable and increase it for optional periodics (#2686)
• Add IPA_BASEURI to download ipa image from Nordix (#2680)
• Add periodic release-0.11 test (#2678)
• Add e2e tests for release 0.11 (#2674)
• Accept uppercase format in upgrade focus (#2657)
• Remove checking keepalived image tag during release (#2656)
• add dependabot support for release-0.11 (#2660)
• Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.23.0 to 1.23.2 (#2652)
• update github runners to oci gh arc runners (#2623)
• Enable linter errname (#2615)

♻️ Superseded or Reverted

• #2653, #2654, #2714, #2668, #2668, #2723, #2665, #2671, #2722

The image for this release is: v0.12.0-beta.0

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊