Merge pull request #11143 from sbueringer/pr-release-v1.8.2

🚀 Release v1.8.2

Author: k8s-ci-robot

CHANGELOG/v1.8.2.md

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+## 👌 Kubernetes version support
+
+- Management Cluster: v1.27.x -> v1.31.x
+- Workload Cluster: v1.25.x -> v1.31.x
+
+[More information about version support can be found here](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/versions.html)
+
+## Highlights
+
+This release contains an [important fix](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/11136) for KCP 
+with Kubernetes v1.31. We recommend all users to upgrade to this release.
+
+The fix required the introduction of a pre-terminate hook that is automatically added and managed by the KCP controller 
+for KCP control plane Machines. If your control plane Machines are using Kubernetes 1.31, KCP will make sure that 
+its pre-terminate hook is run last. This is done to ensure that the terminating Node has a working kubelet / Node 
+while other pre-terminate hooks are executed.
+
+More details about the issue can be found in [Drain not being performed for KCP machines with K8s v1.31.x ](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/11138). 
+
+
+## Changes since v1.8.1
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 15 new commits merged
+- 3 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- API: Re-add /finalizers subresource RBAC (#11120)
+- Bootstrap: Always declare try-or-die-command function in kubeadm-bootstrap-script.sh (#11090)
+- KCP: remove etcd member in pre-terminate hook (#11136)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.15.3 (#11094)
+- e2e: Bump kind to v0.24.0 (#11084)
+- e2e: Test: Bump autoscaler to v1.31.0 (#11112)
+- e2e: Test: improve autoscale tests for to/from zero and running autoscaler in bootstrap cluster (#11093)
+- Testing: Bump envtest in Makefile to v1.31.0 (#11086)
+
+:book: Additionally, there have been 7 contributions to our documentation and book. (#11057, #11058, #11077, #11102, #11110, #11134, #11139) 
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊