• [FEATURE] #659 Add support for HCD serverType with versions 1.x.x. It will be deployed like Cassandra >= 4.1 for now.
• [FEATURE] #660 Add support for DSE version 6.9.x and remove support for DSE 7.x.x. DSE 6.9 will be deployed like DSE 6.8.
• [ENHANCEMENT] #663 Update k8ssandra-client for better Cassandra 5.0 config support
• [BUGFIX] #652 Update nodeStatuses info when a pod is recreated
• [BUGFIX] #656 After canary upgrade, it was not possible to continue upgrading rest of the nodes if the only change was removing the canary upgrade
• [BUGFIX] #657 If a change did not result in StatefulSet changes, a Ready -> Ready state would lose an ObservedGeneration update in the status
• [BUGFIX] #382 If StatefulSet has not caught up yet, do not allow any changes to it. Instead, requeue and wait (does not change behavior of forceRacksUpgrade)