🚀 Release v1.8.12

Signed-off-by: chandankumar4 <[email protected]>

Author: chandankumar4

CHANGELOG/v1.8.12.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)
+
+## Changes since v1.8.11
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 4 new commits merged
+- 1 bug fixed 🐛
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- clusterctl: Clusterctl upgrade hangs for a time on CRD migration when new version contains a number of new CRDs (#12005)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- CI/Github: bump md-link check to 1.0.17 (#12079)
+- e2e: Ensure to always preload kindnetd to not hit ImagePullBackoff (#11996)
+- KCP: Bump corefile-migration library to v1.0.26 (#12064)
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.25 → v1.0.26](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.25...v1.0.26)
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊