What's the task? Please describe

Regular tasks for feature release v1.8.0 must be completed well before the release, during the development phase.

For OS distro updates for SLES and SLE Micro, need to update for each patch release as well.

Describe the sub-tasks

• OS Distro Version Update (QA captain @roger-ryao )

  • Verify by ci.longhorn.io/job/public/job
  • Update Best Practices>Operating System in the official document and testing pipelines
    • Talos v1.8.2 [TASK] Verify Longhorn v1.8.0 on Talos v1.8.3 #9764

• K8s Distro Version Update (QA captain @roger-ryao )

  • Update the testing pipelines to use the latest supported K8s version (RKE2, K3s)
    • https://github.com/longhorn/infra/pull/201
    • https://github.com/longhorn/infra/pull/203

• BCI Image Update for Component Container Base Image
  - registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base:15.6 (https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/#suse-linux-enterprise-high-availability-extension-15)

• Golang Version Update

  • BCI golang image update
  • go.mod update

• Kubernetes Version Update

  • Update the official document with all versions we support (docs: update kubernetes supported for v1.8.0 website#1025)
  • Update the minimum version in official document and chart if needed (feat(chart): update minimum kubernetes supported to 1.25 #10009)

• Kubernetes Dependent Library Version Update
  - Updated to v1.32.0 by renovate

• CSI Sidecar Version Update (https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/chart/values.yaml)

• Support Bundle Kit Version Update (@c3y1huang)

• NFS-Ganesha Version Update (@james-munson)

  • [IMPROVEMENT] Update longhorn-share-manager's nfs-ganesha to v6.2 #9614
  • [TASK] Bump nfs-ganesha to v6.3 #9979

• SPDK Version Update (@DamiaSan)

  • [TASK] Creation of longhorn-v24.09 branch #9700

Additional context

https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/wiki/Version-Update-Policy