✨ New Features

• Deprecate NoCloudProvider and add CloudProviderEnabled (#2108)

🐛 Bug Fixes

📖 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

• Set GITHUB_TOKEN in env release wf (#2498)
• Bump CAPI to v1.10.0-rc.0 (#2487)
• Fix: pulling unused images in the middle of tests (#2271)
• Add use of IPAMprovider to e2e tests (#2348)
• 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)
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 28.0.2+incompatible to 28.0.4+incompatible in /test (#2475)
• 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 github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.23.0 to 2.23.1 in /test (#2427)
• Bump golangci-lint to v1.64.7 (#2423)
• Move @mquhuy to emeritus reviewers (#2422)
• bump BMO to v0.9.1 (#2409)
• group all github action bumps into single PR (#2408)
• bump x/oauth2 to v0.27.0 (#2404)
• Bump the kubernetes group to v0.31.7 (#2392)
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.34.0 to 0.36.0 in /hack/fake-apiserver (#2401)
• Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.19.6 to 0.19.7 in /hack/fake-apiserver (#2396)
• E2E: Ensure cert-manager webhook is available (#2380)
• E2E: Unify logging and cleanup (#2381)
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.34.0 to 0.36.0 in /hack/tools (#2400)
• 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 github.com/metal3-io/cluster-api-provider-metal3/api from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3 in /hack/fake-apiserver (#2369)
• 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)
• Bump the kubernetes group across 5 directories with 7 updates (#2333)
• Debug clusterctl upgrade test failure (#2342)
• Rewrite fetch_manifest.sh into golang (#2109)
• pin osv-scanner image in verify-release.sh (#2321)
• Bump k8s to v1.32.1 (#2317)
• workflows: sync pull_request trigger types (#2318)
• E2E: Adjust Ironic kustomization patch (#2308)
• Add miriadb image tag in release notes (#2312)
• Bump IPAM to 1.9.3 (#2298)
• 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)
• 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)
• e2e: account for ironic-standalone-operator in pivoting tests (#2203)
• 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)
• Bump the capi group across 4 directories with 2 updates (#2194)
• Set value of CAPM3RELEASE instead of relying on metal3-dev-env (#2183)
• Fix FROM_K8S_VERSION variable v1.30.0 -> v1.31.2 (#2172)
• Bump google/osv-scanner from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 (#2178)
• add support for 1.10 in e2e (#2164)
• update dependabot config for release-1.9 (#2165)

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