Release v1.8.0 🌈

What's New

• docs: clarify usage of external service discovery @Revolyssup (#2124)
• feat: add release notes for v1.8.0 release (#2111) @Revolyssup (#2115)
• docs: update keys based helm chart version @Revolyssup (#2085)
• feat: add skip_mtls_uri_regex support for ApisixTls @aynp (#1915)
• feat: add support for multiple labels with same key @Revolyssup (#2099)
• feat: Allow merging nested values in plugin config secretRef @Revolyssup (#2096)
• feat: allow configuring timeout and retries for upstream with ingress @Revolyssup (#1876)
• ci: add workflow to push docker image @Revolyssup (#2081)
• fix: upgrade etcd-adapter @Revolyssup (#2078)
• docs: Add doc for ApisixConsumer @Revolyssup (#2074)
• fix: create unique TLS object for each item in Ingress tls @Revolyssup (#1989)
• feat: add release-drafter @Revolyssup (#2068)
• fix: replace string comparison with 64 bit int @Revolyssup (#2062)
• chore: add Revolyssup in reviewers @Revolyssup (#2059)
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.42.0 to 1.56.3 in /test/e2e/testbackend @dependabot (#2026)
• docs: add best practice docs to avoid race condition bw kubelet and apisix @Revolyssup (#2045)
• chore: correct Makefile comments @jiangfucheng (#2038)
• Renamed field in examples according to CRD @nayavu (#2032)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: Some CRDs missing status sub-resource @Chever-John (#1809)

🧰 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.13.1 to 2.13.2 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2079)
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.14.0 to 0.17.0 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2107)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.28.4 to 0.29.0 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2105)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/api from 0.28.2 to 0.28.4 @dependabot (#2056)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.28.3 to 0.28.4 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2052)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.13.0 to 2.13.1 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2041)
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.57.0 to 1.57.1 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2024)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/apimachinery from 0.28.3 to 0.28.4 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2054)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/gorilla/websocket from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2035)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.28.2 to 0.28.3 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2016)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/api from 0.28.2 to 0.28.3 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2018)

👨🏽‍💻 Contributors

Thank you to our contributors for making this release possible:
@Chever-John, @Revolyssup, @aynp, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @jiangfucheng and @nayavu