v0.18.0

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu	20.04	20.04	20.04	Not supported	20.04
	22.04	22.04	22.04	Not supported	Not supported
Bottlerocket	1.15.1	1.15.1	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
RHEL	8.7	8.7	9.x, 8.7	8.7	Not supported

Added

• Etcd encryption for CloudStack and vSphere: #6557
• KinD-less upgrades: #6622
• Generate TinkerbellTemplateConfig CLI command: #3588
• Support for modular Kubernetes version upgrades with bare metal: #6735
  • OSImageURL added to Tinkerbell Machine Config
• Bare metal out-of-band webhook: #5738
• Support for Kubernetes v1.28
• Support for air gapped image building: #6457
• Support for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 for Nutanix provider: #6822

Changed

• Increased control over upgrades by separating external etcd reconciliation from control plane nodes: #6496
• Upgraded Cilium to 1.12.15
• Upgraded EKS-D:
  • v1-24-eks-26 to v1-24-eks-27
  • v1-25-eks-22 to v1-25-eks-23
  • v1-26-eks-18 to v1-26-eks-19
  • v1-27-eks-12 to v1-27-eks-13
• Cluster API Provider CloudStack: v0.4.9-rc6 to v0.4.9-rc7
• Cluster API Provider AWS Snow: v0.1.26 to v0.1.27
• Upgraded CAPI to v1.5.2

Removed

• Support for Kubernetes v1.23

Fixed

• Fail on eksctl anywhere upgrade cluster plan -f: #6716
• Error out when management kubeconfig is not present for workload cluster operations: 6501
• Empty vSphereMachineConfig users fails CLI upgrade: 5420
• CLI stalls on upgrade with Flux Gitops: 6453