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+# Changes since v1.8.0
+
+:rotating_light: This is a BETA RELEASE. Use it only for testing purposes.
+ If you find any bugs, file an [issue](https://github.com/metal3-io/ip-address-manager/issues/new/).
+
+<details>
+<summary>More details about the release</summary>
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix ignored errors while patching resources (#701)
+
+## :book: Documentation
+
+- Update missing releases in compatibility table (#678)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+
+- Fixing go mod mismatches (#762)
+- Automating release creation (#734)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.21.0 to 2.22.0 (#759)
+- Bump CAPI to v1.9.0-rc.0 (#761)
+- Bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.19.1 to 0.19.2 (#755)
+- Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.35.1 to 1.36.0 (#758)
+- Bump the k8s.io/* deps to v0.30.7 (#754)
+- Bump Go to 1.23.3 and golangci-lint to 1.60.3 (#749)
+- Use make go-version instead of Dockerfile parsing in verify-release.sh (#741)
+- add osv-scanner config for correcting go version used (#695)
+- Increase time for golint test to avoid timeout failure (#745)
+- Use OSV-Scanner release binary and Reporter action workflow instead of
+  pointing to a file (#728)
+- Bump actions/checkout from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 (#727)
+- Bump actions/setup-go from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0 (#726)
+- Bump actions/cache from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 (#724)
+- Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2.0.8 to 2.0.9 (#725)
+- Enable TLS 1.3 flag in IPAM (#721)
+- Add Peppi-Lotta as a reviewer (#717)
+- Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1 (#714)
+- Make CAPI a pattern in dependabot (#703)
+- Bump markdownlint-cli2 to v0.12.0 (#699)
+- Reuse PR verifier wf from project-infra (#693)
+- Use osv-scanner workflow file instead of local workflow (#676)
+- Bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.11 to 3.26.6 (#661)
+- Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.3.4 to 4.4.0 (#674)
+- Remove release-1.6 from dependabot (#675)
+- Fix dependabot config ignore rules (#672)
+- Add dependabot config for release-1.8 (#657)
+
+## :recycle: Superseded or Reverted
+
+- #654, #663, #666, #668, #669, #681, #682, #688, #691, #698, #704, #708, #711, #712,
+  #713, #718, #731, #732, #735, #744, #751
+
+</details>
+
+The image for this release is: v1.9.0-beta.0
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊