v1.8.1 🌈

What's New

• chore: remove redundant logs and improve logs for users @Revolyssup (#2206)
• fix: use force=true to hard delete the apisix resource @Revolyssup (#2210)
• chore: upgrade etcd-adapter to latest version @Revolyssup (#2205)
• chore(ci): remove tao12345666333 and lingsamuel in reviewers @AlinsRan (#2150)
• test: failing flaky unit test @Revolyssup (#2151)
• refactor(cmd/ingress): invert signal ctx logic @acuteaura (#2139)
• chore: update NOTICE to 2024 @zll600 (#2149)
• fix: remove path validation @Revolyssup (#2140)
• feat: add plugin_config_namespace parameter to ApisixRoute @Revolyssup (#2137)
• docs: clarify usage of external service discovery @Revolyssup (#2124)
• feat: add release notes for v1.8.0 release (#2111) @Revolyssup (#2115)

🧰 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.16.0 to 2.17.1 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2195)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 @dependabot (#2196)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/apimachinery from 0.29.2 to 0.29.3 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2185)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.29.0 to 0.29.2 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2162)
• chore(deps): bump go.uber.org/zap from 1.26.0 to 1.27.0 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2172)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/api from 0.29.0 to 0.29.2 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2163)
• chore(deps): bump k8s.io/apimachinery from 0.29.0 to 0.29.2 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2161)
• chore(deps): bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.13.2 to 2.16.0 in /test/e2e @dependabot (#2177)

👨🏽‍💻 Contributors

Thank you to our contributors for making this release possible:
@AlinsRan, @Revolyssup, @acuteaura, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot] and @zll600