Merge pull request #11720 from chandankumar4/release-notes-v1.8.9

🚀 Release v1.8.9

Author: k8s-ci-robot

CHANGELOG/v1.8.9.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
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 7 new commits merged
+- 1 bug fixed 🐛
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- util: Also patch external refs if the UID differs (#11690)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- Dependency: Bump github.com/coredns/corefile-migration to v1.0.25 (#11680)
+- Dependency: Bump to controller-runtime v0.18.7 (#11644)
+- KCP: Stop recreating logger for etcd client (#11682)
+- MachineHealthCheck: Improve Machine remediation logs (#11708)
+- util: Call patchHelper only if necessary when reconciling external refs (#11684)
+- util: PatchHelper: call toUnstructured only if necessary (#11683)
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.24 → v1.0.25](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.24...v1.0.25)
+- sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime: v0.18.6 → v0.18.7
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊