Cut v1.12.1-up.1 Release on May 16, 2023

This issue can be closed when we have completed the following steps (in order). Please ensure all artifacts (PRs, workflow runs, Tweets, etc) are linked from this issue for posterity. Assuming vX.Y.Z-up.K is being cut, after upstream crossplane/crossplane vX.Y.Z has been released according to the declared schedule, you should have:

[x] Synced the release-vX.Y release branch in upbound/crossplane, with upstream crossplane/crossplane release branch, up to the vX.Y.Z tag, adding any required change specific to the fork, see here for more details.
[x] Tagged upbound/crossplane vX.Y.Z-up.K from the release-X.Y branch by:
- [x] Running the Tag workflow on the release-vX.Y branch with the proper release version, vX.Y.Z-up.K. Use Release vX.Y.Z-up.K as message (FYI: the format suggested is only for consistency, there is no actual dependency on it).
- [x] Running the CI workflow on the release-vX.Y branch to build and publish the latest tagged artifacts.
- [x] Confirm the image has been successfully published using: docker buildx imagetools inspect docker.io/upbound/crossplane:vX.Y.Z-up.K
[x] Created and merged a PR for upbound/universal-crossplane to either the main branch, if cutting a patch for the latest supported release, taking care to label it backport release-X.Y, or directly to the release-X.Y branch, if cutting a patch for an older supported release. With the following changes:
- [x] Update any reference to the old latest release to vX.Y.Z-up.K, such as CROSSPLANE_TAG and CROSSPLANE_COMMIT in the Makefile.
- [x] Run make generate to import any changes in the upstream Helm chart.
[x] Cut UXP vX.Y.Z-up.K release from the release-X.Y branch by:
- [x] Running the Tag workflow on the release-vX.Y branch with the proper release version, vX.Y.Z-up.K. Use Release vX.Y.Z-up.K as message (FYI: the format suggested is only for consistency, there is no actual dependency on it).
- [x] Running the CI workflow on the release-vX.Y branch to build and publish the latest tagged artifacts.
[x] Run the Promote workflow on the release-vX.Y branch to promote vX.Y.Z-up.K to stable, it should contain universal-crossplane-X.Y.Z-up.K.tgz. Verify everything is correctly working by running up uxp install against an empty Kubernetes cluster, e.g. kind create cluster, which should result in an healthy UXP installation with expected image versions.
[x] Created and published well authored release notes for UXP vX.Y.Z-up.K. See the previous release for an example, these should at least:
- [x] enumerate relevant updates that were merged in u/xp and u/uxp.
- [x] mention the xp/xp version it refers to.
- [x] list new contributors to u/uxp.
- [x] have the links to the full changelog of u/xp and u/uxp.
[x] Ensured that users have been notified of the release on all communitcation channels:
- [x] Slack: crossposting on Crossplane's Slack workspace channels #announcements, #upbound and #squad-crossplane on Upbound's Slack.
- [x] Twitter: ask #marketing on Upbound's Slack to do so.

Running validations UXP v1.12.1-up.1 with reference platforms.

❯ helm -n upbound-system ls
NAME                    NAMESPACE       REVISION    UPDATED                                 STATUS      CHART                               APP VERSION
universal-crossplane    upbound-system  1           2023-05-16 13:03:01.601021 +0300 +03    deployed    universal-crossplane-1.12.1-up.1    1.12.1-up.1

Platform Ref AWS

Successful Installation:

❯ kubectl get configuration
NAME               INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                           AGE
platform-ref-aws   True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/platform-ref-aws:v0.5.0   12m

❯ kubectl get providers.pkg.crossplane.io
NAME                               INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                                    AGE
crossplane-contrib-provider-helm   True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-helm:v0.15.0   10m
upbound-provider-aws               True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/provider-aws:v0.35.0               12m

End to End validation:

❯ kubectl get clusters.aws.platformref.upbound.io
NAME               SYNCED   READY   CONNECTION-SECRET             AGE
platform-ref-aws   True     True    platform-ref-aws-kubeconfig   20m

Platform Ref GCP

Successful Installation:

❯ kubectl get configurations.pkg.crossplane.io
NAME               INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                           AGE
platform-ref-gcp   True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/platform-ref-gcp:v0.3.0   5m10s
❯ kubectl get providers.pkg.crossplane.io
NAME                               INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                                    AGE
crossplane-contrib-provider-helm   True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-helm:v0.15.0   4m48s
upbound-provider-gcp               True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/provider-gcp:v0.32.0               5m6s

Platform Ref Azure

Successful Installation:

❯ kubectl get configurations.pkg.crossplane.io
NAME                 INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                             AGE
platform-ref-azure   True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/platform-ref-azure:v0.5.0   4m43s
❯ kubectl get providers.pkg.crossplane.io
NAME                               INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                                    AGE
crossplane-contrib-provider-helm   True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-helm:v0.15.0   2m45s
upbound-provider-azure             True        True      xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/provider-azure:v0.32.0             4m45s

upbound / universal-crossplane

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