🚀 Release v1.12.0

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

Author: Sunnatillo

releasenotes/v1.12.0.md

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+# Changes since v1.11.0
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+## :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
+
+- Bump the kubernetes group to v0.34.3 (#1238)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.27.2 to 2.27.3 (#1242)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.38.2 to 1.38.3 (#1243)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.12.0 (#1239)
+- lint: allow long lines in tables and code fences (#1216)
+- bump golang to 1.24.11 (#1210)
+- Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#1207)
+- Add yamllint workflow (#1205)
+- remove scheduled osv-scanner workflow (#1204)
+- 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)
+- Update to Pull request template (#1182)
+- manager: clean up the manager manifest (#1170)
+- manager: paginate requests to 200 at a time (#1166)
+- cmd: strip out symbol table & DWARF debugging info (#1163)
+- add specific time to dependabot config (#1162)
+- Fix OSV-Scanner (#1152)
+- Add 1.12 contract in metadata.yaml (#1155)
+- add dependabot for release-1.11 branch (#1139)
+- Bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.9 to 1.0.10 (#1132)
+
+## :recycle: Superseded or Reverted
+
+- #1133, #1134, #1143, #1148, #1158, #1165, #1167, #1171, #1172, #1178, #1183,
+ #1186, #1192, #1200, #1201, #1208, #1214
+
+The container image for this release is: v1.12.0
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊