🚀 Release v1.12.0-rc.0

Signed-off-by: Sunnatillo <[email protected]>

Author: Sunnatillo

releasenotes/v1.12.0-rc.0.md

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+# Changes since v1.11.0
+
+:rotating_light: This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE. Use it only for testing purposes.
+If you find any bugs, file an [issue](https://github.com/metal3-io/ip-address-manager/issues/new/).
+
+<details>
+<summary>More details about the release</summary>
+
+## :sparkles: New Features
+
+- enable container signing (#1213)
+- add image SBOM attestation to image builds (#1206)
+
+## :book: Documentation
+
+- add AGENTS.md (#1188)
+- Update compatibility matrix (#1154)
+- Add alpha release in release documentation (#1130)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+
+- lint: allow long lines in tables and code fences (#1216)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-rc.1 (#1214)
+- bump golang to 1.24.11 (#1210)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-rc.0 (#1208)
+- Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#1207)
+- Add yamllint workflow (#1205)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-beta.1 (#1201)
+- remove scheduled osv-scanner workflow (#1204)
+- Bump kubernetes group to v0.34.2 (#1200)
+- Migrate to golangci-lint v2 (#1189)
+- Bump k8s.io modules to v0.34.1 and CR to v0.22.4 (#1197)
+- Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 in /hack/tools (#1193)
+- Bump sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5 from 5.7.1 to 5.8.0 in /hack/tools (#1194)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.12.0-beta.0 (#1192)
+- Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2.3.3 to 2.4.1 in the github-actions group (#1186)
+- Update to Pull request template (#1182)
+- bump golang to v1.24.9 (#1183)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.26.0 to 2.27.2 (#1178)
+- manager: clean up the manager manifest (#1170)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.11.2 (#1171)
+- Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 in /hack/tools (#1172)
+- Uplift go 1.24.8 to address CVEs (#1167)
+- manager: paginate requests to 200 at a time (#1166)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.25.3 to 2.26.0 in /api (#1165)
+- cmd: strip out symbol table & DWARF debugging info (#1163)
+- Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 4 updates (#1158)
+- add specific time to dependabot config (#1162)
+- Fix OSV-Scanner (#1152)
+- Add 1.12 contract in metadata.yaml (#1155)
+- Bump golang to v1.24.7 (#1148)
+- Bump the kubernetes group to v0.33.5 (#1143)
+- add dependabot for release-1.11 branch (#1139)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.25.2 to 2.25.3 (#1134)
+- Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 in /hack/tools (#1133)
+- Bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.9 to 1.0.10 (#1132)
+
+</details>
+
+The container image for this release is: v1.12.0-rc.0
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊