Hadron beta release

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🔦 Highlights

This will be the first public beta release of Hadron Linux.

✅ Release Checklist

• Stage 0 - Finishing Touches
  • Check for critical CVEs in our internal components. Do any necessary bumps or PR merges to get all components to good state.
  • Check if the desired versions of the binaries are referenced in the kairos-init Makefile (check for renovate bot PRs)
  • Bump versions if needed and cut a new release of kairos-init
  • Bump the kairos-init version on the kairos Dockerfile
  • CI tests are passing
  • Check if Kairos docs has any open PRs that need to be merged
  • Check if osbuilder is in the wanted version/latest
  • Check if k3s versions are correct (latest 3 versions should be available)
  • Consider cutting an rc, alpha, ... based on changes on the CI
• Stage 1 - Manual testing
  • How: Using the assets from master, make sure that test scenarios not covered by automatic tests are passing, and that docs are still aligned
    • Generic hardware install
      • Manual upgrade
      • Interactive install
      • Manual recovery reset
      • Automatic reset
      • Provider decentralized test (like we used to run automatically)
    • RPi Standard Install (helps validate that partition expansion is working)
      • Manual upgrade
      • Passive booting
      • Recovery booting
      • Manual recovery reset
      • Automatic reset
      • /oem exists
      • k3s is running
    • Go through any of the known issues https://kairos.io/docs/
• Stage 3 - Release
  • Tag the release on master
  • Update the release with any known issues
  • Perform a manual commit on the docs repo to trigger CI (git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger Build")
• Stage 4 - Announcement
  • Blog post announcement