Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 2.11.0

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New features

• Introduce Kibana config field in stack config policy #7324
• Introduce Elasticsearch config and additional secret mounts to stack config policy #7233
• Add StatefulSet as a deployment option for Elastic Agent #7357

Enhancements

• Allow Agent and Elastic stack in different namespaces. #7382 (issue: #7352)
• Support -ubi suffix starting 8.12.0 and 7.17.16 #7368
• Update to ubi9 and use -ubi prefix for operator image #7321
• Allow setting additional operator flags via the Helm chart #7252 (issue: #6091)
• Support configuring "ca-dir" operator setting via helm #7243 (issues: #6091, #6435)

Bug fixes

• Update eck-elasticsearch default secureSettings values to be slice. #7397
• Fix recipe name to run Fleet as non-root #7313 (issue: #7312)

Documentation improvements

• Document how to use stack config policies to manage authentication #7381
• Fix secure settings link on stack config policy page #7377
• Document known issue with Kibana 8.11.2 using secure settings #7373 (issue: #7371)
• Add details about rolling restart behavior #7372
• Update node configuration documentation to note reserved settings. #7351
• Use docker.io/bash for sleep container of max-map-count-setter Daemonset #7332
• Update Beats stack monitoring recipe #7322
• Document basic snapshot repository setup for Azure #7308
• Documentation link replaced with markup in 2.10 release notes #7306
• Make plugin installation via initContainer more robust #7305
• Add additional details on CA requirements. #7271
• Document how to provide container registry credentials in air-gapped environments #7256)

Misc

• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0 #7394
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang docker tag to v1.21.5 #7366
• fix(deps): update module github.com/google/go-containerregistry to v0.17.0 #7355
• fix(deps): update module go.elastic.co/apm/v2 to v2.4.7 #7337
• Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 #7329
• chore(deps): update registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal docker tag to v9 #7326
• fix(deps): update k8s to v0.28.4 #7319
• fix(deps): update module github.com/spf13/cobra to v1.8.0 #7288
• Update docker v24.0.7+incompatible #7282
• fix(deps): update module k8s.io/klog/v2 to v2.110.1 #7278
• fix(deps): update module github.com/go-logr/logr to v1.3.0 #7272
• fix(deps): update module github.com/google/uuid to v1.4.0 #7270
• fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime to v0.16.3 #7249
• fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/common to v0.45.0 #7246