Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes version 2.12.0

During the upgrade of Elasticsearch to version 8.13.0, the operator may encounter a stall in the process due to a reconciler error, wherein the Elasticsearch client fails to request the desired nodes API. There is no workaround available to resolve this issue. The only solution is to update the operator to the subsequent patch release.

Remove noisy stack config policy log line #7582 (issue: #7529)
Increase the default PVC size for logstash #7540 (issue: #7538)
Add eck-apm-server Helm Chart #7533 (issue: #7489)
Add Health to Logstash Status #7528 (issue: #7527)
Add resourceStatuses back into stack config policy status for backwards compatibility #7500
Add support for updateStrategy in Logstash #7466
Add TLS and basic authentication integration to Logstash API server #7408 (issue: #6971)
Add support for securing the operator metrics endpoint with RBAC and TLS #7567
Remove Enterprise license restriction from ECK stack Helm charts #7621

Fix Logstash quickstart docs using single-quote EOF to avoid expanding variables #7580 (issue: #7572)
Fix typo in managing-compute-resources documentation #7563
Update APM Server docs for use since 8.x requiring Kibana #7559 (issue: #7541)
Remove initContainer section in Logstash plugin docs #7557
Add caution concerning running differing versions of CRDs + operator #7503
Fix small typo in uninstall docs #7436

fix(deps): update module golang.org/x/crypto to v0.20.0 #7578
fix(deps): update module go.uber.org/zap to v1.27.0 #7577
fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/common to v0.48.0 #7570
fix(deps): update k8s to v0.29.2 and controller-runtime to v0.17.2 #7568
fix(deps): update module github.com/hashicorp/vault/api to v1.12.0 #7550
chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang docker tag to v1.22.0 #7549
fix(deps): update module github.com/google/go-containerregistry to v0.19.0 #7517
fix(deps): update k8s to v0.29.1 #7505
chore(deps): update registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal docker tag to v9.3-1552 #7501
fix(deps): update module github.com/google/uuid to v1.6.0 #7496
fix(deps): update module k8s.io/klog/v2 to v2.120.1 #7484
fix(deps): update module go.elastic.co/apm/v2 to v2.4.8 #7472
fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools to v0.14.0 #7461
fix(deps): update module github.com/spf13/viper to v1.18.2 #7458
fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/client_golang to v1.18.0 #7417
fix(deps): update module github.com/go-logr/logr to v1.4.1 #7409