v0.7.1

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [fix] handle case where instance already exists by @rahulait in #563
• [fix] don't immediately requeue if the error can't be fixed with a retry by @AshleyDumaine in #564
• [fix] respect vlan interface if defined in linodemachine by @AshleyDumaine in #562
• [fix] disable LDE for flatcar by @eljohnson92 in #558

🚀 New Features

• [feat] Add CIDR transformation for single IP addresses in firewall rules by @komer3 in #559
• [feat] Remove kube-rbac-proxy to expose metrics and replace it with current best practice by @komer3 in #556
• [feat] adding vpcref to linodemachine by @komer3 in #553

💡 Improvements

• [improvement] Add env var toggle for gzip compression of cloud-init user data by @AshleyDumaine in #531
• [improvement] remove gob to save memory by @AshleyDumaine in #552
• [improvement] : simplify addr calculation and fetch instance config only for vlans by @rahulait in #551

📦 Dependency Updates

• 🌱 Bump sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5 in the kubernetes group by @dependabot in #565
• 🌱 Bump the otel group with 4 updates by @dependabot in #566
• 🌱 Bump golang.org/x/mod from 0.21.0 to 0.22.0 by @dependabot in #567
• 🌱 Bump github.com/go-resty/resty/v2 from 2.15.3 to 2.16.0 by @dependabot in #568
• 🌱 Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.34.2 to 1.35.1 by @dependabot in #560
• 🌱 Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.20.2 to 2.21.0 by @dependabot in #561
• [deps] Kubernetes dep upgrades and go version upgrade by @komer3 in #557
• 🌱 Bump github.com/linode/linodego from 1.41.0 to 1.42.0 by @dependabot in #554