github kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere v1.17.0-rc.0
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🚨 This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE. Use it only for testing purposes. If you find any bugs, file an issue.
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Highlights

  • Cluster API provider VSphere is now using Golang 1.26, CR v0.24, CT v0.21, Cluster API v1.14

Changes for CAPV Supervisor mode

  • Introduce vm-operator v1alpha6 API - not ready for production - (#4020)
  • Add control plane zone selection support (#4003)
  • Add policies support to supervisor VSphereMachine (#3987)
  • Support IPv6 and DualStack for NSX-VPC Network Provider (#4057)
  • Support VLAN sub-interface configuration for supervisor VSphereMachine (#3956)

Changes for CAPV govmomi mode

  • Allow to configure crypto (#3749)

misc

  • Introduce separate API module (#4054)
  • Tune controller concurrency and cache timeout for scale (#3893)
  • Split supervisor and govmomi feature gates, add support for gates depending on vm-operator-version (#4009)
  • Add chained upgrade e2e test (#4014)
  • Enable in-place updates e2e test (#4019)
  • Add KCP adoption e2e test (#4023)

Deprecation Warning

Important:

  • The v1beta1 API version is on track to be unserved in CAPV v1.21. All the consumers of this API version should migrate to v1beta2 ASAP.

Changes since v1.17.0-beta.1

📈 Overview

  • 9 new commits merged
  • 2 bugs fixed 🐛

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Add conversion webhook wiring for VSphereClusterIdentity CRD (#4106)
  • Fix vcsim VirtualMachine reconciler (#4116)

🌱 Others

  • Bump actions for v1.17 (#4119)
  • Bump CAPI v1.14.0-rc.0 (#4120)
  • Bump dependencies to fix CVEs (#4114)
  • Bump to CPI v1.37.0-beta.0 (#4103)
  • Start testing with Kubernetes v1.37.0-beta.0 (#4111)
  • Use pkgerrors as alias for github.com/pkg/errors & no alias for errors (#4107)

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

  • github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp: v1.31.0 → v1.32.0
  • github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4: v4.13.0 → v4.13.1
  • github.com/cncf/xds/go: ee656c7 → dba9d58
  • github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/envoy: v1.36.0 → v1.37.0
  • github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: v1.3.0 → v1.3.3
  • github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: v4.1.3 → v4.1.4
  • github.com/google/cel-go: v0.26.0 → v0.29.0
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3: v3.6.13 → v3.6.14
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3: v3.6.13 → v3.6.14
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3: v3.6.13 → v3.6.14
  • go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp: v1.39.0 → v1.43.0
  • google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: 9d38bb4 → afd174a
  • google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: 9d38bb4 → afd174a
  • google.golang.org/grpc: v1.80.0 → v1.82.1
  • k8s.io/api: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/apimachinery: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/apiserver: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/client-go: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/code-generator: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/component-base: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/kms: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/streaming: v0.36.2 → v0.36.3
  • sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/api: v1.14.0-beta.1 → v1.14.0-rc.0
  • sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api: v1.14.0-beta.1 → v1.14.0-rc.0

Removed

Nothing has changed.

More details about the release

⚠️ RELEASE CANDIDATE NOTES ⚠️

Highlights

  • REPLACE ME

Changes since v1.16.0

📈 Overview

  • 124 new commits merged
  • 1 breaking change ⚠️
  • 14 feature additions ✨
  • 13 bugs fixed 🐛

⚠️ Breaking Changes

  • Bump to CAPI main, Go 1.26, CR v0.24, CT v0.21 (#3992)

✨ New Features

  • Add control plane zone selection support (#4003)
  • Add policies support to supervisor VSphereMachine (#3987)
  • Add validation on control plane failure domain selector (#4022)
  • Allow to configure crypto (#3749)
  • Bump to CAPI main 18.06 (incl. new api Go module) (#4062)
  • Bump to CAPI main 26.05.2026 & enable store and fifo informer metrics (#4017)
  • Bump vm-operator latest version to introducing v1alpha6 API (#3969)
  • Enable in-place updates e2e test (#4019)
  • Introduce separate API module (#4054)
  • Introduce vm-operator v1alpha6 API (#4020)
  • Remove YEAR from copyright header boilerplate (#4083)
  • Support IPv6 and DualStack for NSX-VPC Network Provider (#4057)
  • Support VLAN sub-interface configuration for supervisor VSphereMachine (#3956)
  • Tune controller concurrency and cache timeout for scale (#3893)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Add conversion webhook wiring for VSphereClusterIdentity CRD (#4106)
  • Align VM interface IPAMModes configuration with capability gating (#4085)
  • Create VMG when VSphereMachine count greater than MD replicas (#3928)
  • Fetch zone info from already-placed VM condition message (#3892)
  • Fix CAPV e2e test pod CIDRs (#4073)
  • Fix clusterctl upgrade resource version stable check (#4074)
  • Fix duplicate prometheus port name in generated CSI cluster-template manifests (#4070)
  • Fix image loading for KCP adoption e2e test (#4092)
  • Fix immutability validation of VSphereMachineTemplate (#4041)
  • Fix release notes for first pre-release (#4021)
  • Fix vcsim VirtualMachine reconciler (#4116)
  • Fixup e2e tests (#4071)
  • Keep IPAddressClaim in the KCP infra adoption e2e test (#4075)

🌱 Others

  • Add chained upgrade e2e test (#4014)
  • Add finalizer only after we got owner/cluster (#4018)
  • Add KCP adoption test (#4023)
  • Bump actions for v1.16 (#3888)
  • Bump actions for v1.17 (#4119)
  • Bump autoscaler version used for testing (#4095)
  • Bump CAPI to v1.13.0-beta.1 (#3911)
  • Bump CAPI v1.13.0+ (#3957)
  • Bump CAPI v1.13.0-rc.0 (#3924)
  • Bump CAPI v1.13.0-rc.1 (#3945)
  • Bump CAPI v1.13.1 (#3974)
  • Bump CAPI v1.14.0-rc.0 (#4120)
  • Bump CAPV to CAPI main (2026.05.05) (#3982)
  • Bump CPI to v1.36.0 (#3965)
  • Bump CPI to v1.36.0-beta.0 (#3903)
  • Bump CPI to v1.36.0-rc.0 (#3938)
  • Bump dependencies (#3943)
  • Bump dependencies to fix CVEs (#4114)
  • Bump envtest to v1.36.0 (#3993)
  • Bump go v1.25.9 (#3920)
  • Bump google.golang.org/grpc to fix CVE (#3899)
  • Bump to CAPI main 15.05.2026 (#4007)
  • Bump to CAPI v1.14.0-beta.0 (#4094)
  • Bump to CAPI v1.14.0-beta.1 (#4101)
  • Bump to Cluster API v1.14.0-alpha.0 (#4068)
  • Bump to CPI v1.37.0-beta.0 (#4103)
  • Bump to Go 1.26.4 (#4044)
  • Bump to Go v1.26.5 (#4089)
  • Bump to kind v0.32.0 (#4032)
  • Bump vm-operator to latest vc-9.1.0 (#3984)
  • Cleanup unused hack/boilerplate.go.txt (#4086)
  • Complete bump to CAPI v1.13.0-beta.1 (#3912)
  • Declare contents: read permissions for pr-verify action (#4005)
  • Drop local copy of topologyv1 (#4010)
  • Fix CVE-2026-39883 (#3932)
  • Fix link in cloudbuild.yaml's (#4048)
  • Fix workflows (#4013)
  • Improve image pre-loading via DaemonSet (#4058)
  • Improve vm-operator versioning semantic (#3918)
  • Make it possible to exclude CVEs with govulncheck (#3995)
  • Migrate away from custom GitHub action approval workflow (#3917)
  • Migrate from import boss to depguard (#4079)
  • Only add finalizer after VSphereMachine has owner (#4008)
  • Prepare main for 1.17 (#3979)
  • Remove kube-rbac-proxy from vm-op 9.2 deployment (#4043)
  • Revert "Migrate away from custom GitHub action approval workflow" (#4055)
  • Set nodeDeletionTimeoutSeconds: 0 in cluster templates and e2e tests (#4077)
  • Skip 9.2 e2e tests (#3986)
  • Split supervisor and govmomi feature gates, add support for gates depending on vm-operator-version (#4009)
  • Start testing against Kubernetes v1.37 (#3964)
  • Start testing with Kubernetes v1.36.0 (#3959)
  • Start testing with Kubernetes v1.36.0-beta.0 (#3904)
  • Start testing with Kubernetes v1.36.0-rc.0 (#3929)
  • Start testing with Kubernetes v1.36.0-rc.1 (#3947)
  • Start testing with Kubernetes v1.37.0-beta.0 (#4111)
  • Start using 1.36 OVA (#3970)
  • Stop running make lint-api multiple times in GitHub action + align to CAPI (#4061)
  • Stop using Cluster API v1beta1 APIs in test/ (#4056)
  • Sync ci-e2e-lib.sh (#4037)
  • Sync vm-op conversion code (#4052)
  • Update naming template for CP / VSphereCluster / MD in supervisor e2e tests (#4069)
  • Update readme for release-1.16 (#3968)
  • Use pkgerrors as alias for github.com/pkg/errors & no alias for errors (#4107)
  • Use v1.13 release artifacts instead of staging (#3976)
  • Validate supervisor endpoint host is IP in service discovery (#4024)

📖 Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#3953)

Dependencies

Added

  • github.com/clipperhouse/displaywidth: v0.10.0
  • github.com/clipperhouse/uax29/v2: v2.6.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/cmdutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/conv: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/fileutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/jsonname: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/jsonutils/fixtures_test: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/jsonutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/loading: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/mangling: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/netutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/stringutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/typeutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag/yamlutils: v0.26.0
  • github.com/go-openapi/testify/enable/yaml/v2: v2.4.2
  • github.com/go-openapi/testify/v2: v2.4.2
  • github.com/vmware-tanzu/vm-operator/external/tanzu-topology: 46d6f2c
  • k8s.io/streaming: v0.36.3
  • sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/api: v1.14.0-rc.0

Changed

  • github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp: v1.31.0 → v1.32.0
  • github.com/alecthomas/units: b94a6e3 → 0f3dac3
  • github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4: v4.13.0 → v4.13.1
  • github.com/cncf/xds/go: ee656c7 → dba9d58
  • github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: v1.0.31 → v1.0.34
  • github.com/coreos/go-oidc: v2.3.0+incompatible → v2.5.0+incompatible
  • github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22: v22.5.0 → v22.7.0
  • github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/envoy: v1.36.0 → v1.37.0
  • github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: v1.3.0 → v1.3.3
  • github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2: v2.9.0 → v2.9.1
  • github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: v4.1.3 → v4.1.4
  • github.com/go-logr/logr: v1.4.3 → v1.4.4
  • github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer: v0.21.0 → v0.23.1
  • github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference: v0.20.2 → v0.21.5
  • github.com/go-openapi/swag: v0.23.0 → v0.26.0
  • github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5: v5.2.2 → v5.3.0
  • github.com/google/cel-go: v0.26.0 → v0.29.0
  • github.com/google/pprof: 294ebfa → 545e8a4
  • github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware/providers/prometheus: v1.0.1 → v1.1.0
  • github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware/v2: v2.3.0 → v2.3.3
  • github.com/mattn/go-runewidth: v0.0.16 → v0.0.19
  • github.com/olekukonko/errors: v1.1.0 → v1.2.0
  • github.com/olekukonko/ll: v0.1.1 → v0.1.6
  • github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter: v1.0.9 → v1.1.4
  • github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2: v2.28.1 → v2.32.0
  • github.com/onsi/gomega: v1.39.1 → v1.42.1
  • github.com/prometheus/common: v0.66.1 → v0.67.5
  • github.com/prometheus/procfs: v0.16.1 → v0.20.1
  • github.com/vmware-tanzu/nsx-operator/pkg/apis: 288a237 → a0f2f0b
  • github.com/vmware-tanzu/vm-operator/api: 93918c5 → 46d6f2c
  • github.com/vmware-tanzu/vm-operator/external/ncp: 93918c5 → 46d6f2c
  • github.com/vmware/govmomi: v0.53.0 → v0.55.1
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3: v3.6.10 → v3.6.14
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3: v3.6.10 → v3.6.14
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3: v3.6.10 → v3.6.14
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/pkg/v3: v3.6.5 → v3.6.8
  • go.etcd.io/etcd/server/v3: v3.6.5 → v3.6.8
  • go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp: v1.39.0 → v1.43.0
  • go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc: v0.60.0 → v0.65.0
  • go.uber.org/zap: v1.27.1 → v1.28.0
  • go.yaml.in/yaml/v2: v2.4.3 → v2.4.4
  • golang.org/x/crypto: v0.50.0 → v0.54.0
  • golang.org/x/exp: 8a7402a → 944ab1f
  • golang.org/x/mod: v0.35.0 → v0.38.0
  • golang.org/x/net: v0.53.0 → v0.57.0
  • golang.org/x/sync: v0.20.0 → v0.22.0
  • golang.org/x/sys: v0.43.0 → v0.47.0
  • golang.org/x/telemetry: be6f6cb → 49f421f
  • golang.org/x/term: v0.42.0 → v0.45.0
  • golang.org/x/text: v0.36.0 → v0.40.0
  • golang.org/x/time: v0.9.0 → v0.14.0
  • golang.org/x/tools/go/expect: v0.1.0-deprecated → v0.1.1-deprecated
  • golang.org/x/tools: v0.44.0 → v0.48.0
  • google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: 9d38bb4 → afd174a
  • google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: 9d38bb4 → afd174a
  • google.golang.org/grpc: v1.80.0 → v1.82.1
  • google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.36.11 → f2248ac
  • k8s.io/api: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/apimachinery: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/apiserver: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/client-go: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/code-generator: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/component-base: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.130.1 → v2.140.0
  • k8s.io/kms: v0.35.4 → v0.36.3
  • k8s.io/kube-openapi: 589584f → 43fb72c
  • k8s.io/utils: bc988d5 → b8788ab
  • sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.31.2 → v0.34.0
  • sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api: v1.13.1 → v1.14.0-rc.0
  • sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime: v0.23.3 → v0.24.1
  • sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v6: v6.4.0 → v6.4.2

Removed

  • github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4: v4.3.0
  • github.com/creack/pty: v1.1.9
  • github.com/gregjones/httpcache: 901d907
  • github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus: v1.2.0
  • github.com/kr/pty: v1.1.1
  • github.com/rivo/uniseg: v0.4.7

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