v1.9.6

Changes since v1.9.5

🌱 Others

• Bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.7 to 1.0.9 (#1120)
• Bump actions/cache from 4.2.3 to 4.2.4 in the github-actions group (#1117)
• Bump CAPI to v1.9.11 (#1108)
• Bump the kubernetes group across 3 directories with 6 updates (#1106)
• bump golang to 1.24.6 (#1093)

♻️ Superseded or Reverted

• #1072, #1074, #1073, #1062, #1060, #1053

The container image for this release is: v1.9.6

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊