v0.18.0

What's Changed

🚀 Enhancements

• Add move/pivot e2e test by @anmazzotti in #678
• ✨ Add Gzip Compression Option for User Data by @furkatgofurov7 in #649
• Implement control plane load balancer exclusion by @anmazzotti in #697
• 🌱 Add support for external datastore by @yiannistri in #695

🐛 Bugs

• Revert token registry fix by @anmazzotti in #686
• Forbid 0 RKE2ControlPlane replicas by @anmazzotti in #704

Other Changes

• Pass AdditionalUserData.Data to NewJoinControlPlane by @mmb in #682
• chore(deps): Bump github.com/coreos/butane from 0.23.0 to 0.24.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #672
• chore(deps): Bump github.com/cloudflare/circl from 1.3.7 to 1.6.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #675
• chore(deps): Bump github.com/go-logr/logr from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #671
• 🌱 Prepare main branch for v0.18 development by @alexander-demicev in #681
• Increase amount of concurrent reconciliations by @alexander-demicev in #685
• chore(deps): Bump sigs.k8s.io/yaml from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #689
• Add configurability for ClusterCache concurrency by @jdanieck in #690
• fix: Update AWS template by @yiannistri in #692
• Rely on RKE2 managed etcd for member removal by @anmazzotti in #684
• Configures usage of feature-gate & manager flags by @apoorvajagtap in #694

New Contributors

• @mmb made their first contribution in #682
• @jdanieck made their first contribution in #690
• @apoorvajagtap made their first contribution in #694

Full Changelog: v0.17.1...v0.18.0