Changes since v1.9.0

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Bump CAPI to v1.10.1 (#2531, #2432)
• Deprecate Metal3data templateReference (#2326)
• Remove IPAM deployment logic (#1993)
• Remove Metal3Machine owner reference from BMH (#1742)

✨ New Features

• Deprecate NoCloudProvider and add CloudProviderEnabled (#2108)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handle NICs without IP addresses (#2519)
• Revert "Remove Metal3Machine owner reference from BMH" (#2254)

📖 Documentation

• Remove IPAM manifests related links and check in release process (#2355)
• update OpenSSF CII Best Practices badge (#2304)
• Updating docs for release 1.9 (#2232)
• Improve e2e documentation (#2209)

🌱 Others

• Bump BMO to v0.10.1 (#2529)
• Bump Kubernetes to v1.33.0 (#2523)
• Bump IPAM 1.10.0 and BMO 0.10.0 (#2522)
• Bump the kubernetes group to v0.32.4 (#2513)
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 28.0.4+incompatible to 28.1.1+incompatible in /test (#2515)
• Bump CAPI to v1.10.0 (#2517)
• Enabled dupl linter (#2521)
• Enabled tagliatelle linter (#2500)
• Bump CAPI 1.10.0 and CAPM3 1.10.0-beta.0 in FKAS (#2507)
• Enabled intrange linter (#2502)
• Enabled forcetypeassert linter (#2501)
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.38.0 to 0.39.0 (#2489)
• Set GITHUB_TOKEN in env release wf (#2498)
• Bump BMO v0.10.0-beta.0 IPAM v1.10.0-beta.0 and Ginkgo v2.23.4 (#2493)
• Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.28.0 to 0.29.0 in /hack/tools (#2490)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.23.3 to 2.23.4 (#2488)
• add labels to Dockerfile (#2483)
• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.36.3 to 1.37.0 (#2480)
• make osv-scanner scan run daily (#2484)
• Update e2e tests to use capi v1.10.0-beta.1 and uplift go mods to v1.10.0-beta.1 (#2462)
• Bump github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator from 0.2.1-0.20250324064446-0dfac9b3ede6 to 0.3.0 in /test (#2473)
• Bump the github-actions group with 4 updates (#2474)
• Enable errname, errorlint, forbidigo and perfsprint linters (#2464)
• Add Honza Pokorný as a reviewer (#2476)
• do not bump major version of github actions (#2468)
• bump golang to v1.23.8 and x/net to v0.38.0 (#2469)
• E2E: Install independent Metal3 IPAM after upgrade (#2382)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.20.3 to 0.20.4 (#2452)
• update the used linters list (#2437)
• update osv-scanner to v2.0.0 (#2433)
• bump tj-actions/changed-files to v46.0.1 (#2431)
• Bump golangci-lint to v1.64.7 (#2423)
• Move @mquhuy to emeritus reviewers (#2422)
• group all github action bumps into single PR (#2408)
• E2E: Ensure cert-manager webhook is available (#2380)
• E2E: Unify logging and cleanup (#2381)
• fix dependabot testing issues by re-adding "edited" (#2386)
• fix deprecation notice paragraph style (#2385)
• Change IPAM provider name to independent Metal3 IPAM in e2e test (#2384)
• E2E: Adjust Ironic kustomization patch for BMO 0.8 (#2366)
• Bump golang.org/x/mod from 0.23.0 to 0.24.0 in /test (#2371)
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.35.0 to 0.36.0 in /test (#2372)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3.28.8 to 3.28.10 (#2362)
• Bump actions/cache from 4.2.0 to 4.2.2 (#2360)
• Bump cert-manager to v1.17.1 (#2358)
• Eliminate typo in networkDataSuffix (#2347)
• Add use of IPAMprovider to e2e tests (#2348)
• Debug clusterctl upgrade test failure (#2342)
• Rewrite fetch_manifest.sh into golang (#2109)
• pin osv-scanner image in verify-release.sh (#2321)
• workflows: sync pull_request trigger types (#2318)
• E2E: Adjust Ironic kustomization patch (#2308)
• Add miriadb image tag in release notes (#2312)
• Move mboukhalfa to emeritus approvers (#2307)
• Bump actions/setup-go from 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 (#2300)
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 (#2302)
• Bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 (#2289)
• Fix: pulling unused images in the middle of tests (#2271)
• Bump k8s.io/* deps to v0.31.5 (#2259)
• remove kubebuilder:default=true for CloudProviderEnabled and set defaults in defaulting webhook (#2276)
• E2E: Fix Ironic kustomization (#2277)
• Add Peppi-lotta and Huy as reviewers (#2266)
• Only use Kustomize to install Ironic and BMO in e2e tests (#2240)
• Update clusterctl tests for 1.9 (#2242)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api from 0.18.0 to 0.19.0 in /test (#2246)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5 from 5.5.0 to 5.6.0 in /hack/tools (#2244)
• bump kubeconform to v0.6.7 (#2235)
• Fix e2e pivoting(node_reuse) test (#2212)
• Update release note generator and docs to reflect the new release workflow (#2218)
• Take the new release workflow into use (#2216)
• Parameterize scalability test (#2202)
• Remove CP scaling from e2e-feature-test (#2201)
• Set value of CAPM3RELEASE instead of relying on metal3-dev-env (#2183)
• Fix FROM_K8S_VERSION variable v1.30.0 -> v1.31.2 (#2172)
• add support for 1.10 in e2e (#2164)
• update dependabot config for release-1.9 (#2165)

♻️ Superseded or Reverted

(#2320)(#2280)(#2504)(#2487)(#2260)(#2343)(#2214)(#2298)(#2409)(#2247)(#2261)(#2352)(#2428)(#2475)(#2333)(#2392)(#2503)(#2220)(#2336)(#2368)(#2400)(#2401)(#2245)(#2315)(#2351)(#2370)(#2404)(#2417)(#2205)(#2206)(#2398)(#2393)(#2427)(#2197)(#2453)(#2203)(#2262)(#2354)(#2223)(#2221)(#2291)(#2292)(#2338)(#2337)(#2395)(#2396)(#2303)(#2361)(#2299)(#2369)(#2316)(#2375)(#2353)(#2177)(#2204)(#2301)(#2173)(#2317)(#2314)(#2175)(#2179)(#2222)(#2178)(#2194)(#2180)

The image for this release is: v1.10.0
Mariadb image tag is: capm3-v1.10.0

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊