v1.7.0

Changes since v1.6.2

✨ New Features

• Bump CAPI to v1.7.0 (#497)

📖 Documentation

• Update releasing docs (#479)
• Switch markdownlint container to markdownlint-cli2 (#419)

🌱 Others

• Fix package versions mismatches (#500)
• Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.23.0 and golang to v1.21.9 (#487)
• Add workflow to approve actions on PR change (#485)
• Add lint-fix as make target (#480)
• Bump actions/checkout from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 (#483)
• Bump actions/cache from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2 (#482)
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2 (#481)
• Add support for beta/rc releases in release notes (#475)
• Remove obsolete Makefile-related gofmt, govet scripts (#473)
• Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.31.1 to 1.32.0 (#469)
• Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.16.0 to 2.17.1 (#468)
• Bump k8s.io/code-generator from 0.29.2 to 0.29.3 in /hack/tools (#464)
• Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.31.0 to 1.33.0 (#461, #462)
• add golang base image check to verify-release.sh (#450)
• bump shellcheck to v0.10.0 (#451)
• Add make unit-cover like in BMO (#443)
• Bump golangci-lint to v1.56.2 (#448)
• Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.7.0 to 4.0.0 (#439)
• Fix Ginkgo API test suite (#441)
• Improve ipv6 address in bound check performance in ippool webhook (#431)
• Bump EndBug/add-and-commit from 9.1.3 to 9.1.4 (#425)
• Fix dependabot workflow permissions (#415)
• Remove some conditionals from workflows (#410)
• Bump github.com/go-logr/logr from 1.3.0 to 1.4.1 (#404)
• Add tag triggering for container building wf (#394)
• Reduce github action permissions (#408)

♻️ Superseded

• Bumps: (#409, #413, #414, #416, #420, #424, #426, #428, #432, #429, #435, #438, #455, #467, #472, #478, #484, #489)

The container image for this release is: v1.7.0

Thanks to all our contributors! 😊