Merge pull request #10923 from vishalanarase/v1.8.0-beta.1

🚀  Release v1.8.0-beta.1

Merge pull request #10864 from vishalanarase/v1.8.0-beta.0

🚀  Release v1.8.0-beta.0

Merge pull request #10850 from sbueringer/pr-add-meta-data

[release-1.7] ✨ Extend ControlPlane/ MD / MP builtin to include metadata

Merge pull request #10830 from sbueringer/pr-bump-go-1.22.5-1.6

[release-1.6] 🌱 Bump to Go 1.22.5