🛡️ This is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release.
Supported until Feb 2027. See SUPPORT.md for details.
Continuous Integration
- only bump patch version references in the release PR for patch releases (#9753) (#9761) #9761 (Ryan Mistretta)
Chores
- bump go to 1.26.10 and golang.org/x/net to v0.60.0, pin golangci-lint and controller-gen (release-v1.9.x) (#9760) #9760 (Derek Frank)