v2.6.0

What's Changed

• chore: update policy documents by @Abhinandan-Purkait in #533
• chore: update MAINTAINERS signpost link by @Abhinandan-Purkait in #534
• chore: remove maintainers from charts README.md by @Abhinandan-Purkait in #537
• docs: Fix resources comments order in helm chart by @pando85 in #508
• fix: wrap k8s api error in GetNodeID by @aep in #535
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.17.0 to 0.23.0 by @dependabot in #529
• chore: fix doc repo URL in PR template by @avishnu in #543
• docs(backup-restore): update velero backup docs by @sinhaashish in #546
• feat(analytics): add heartbeat pinger by @niladrih in #548
• chore: add changelong entries for contributors by @Abhinandan-Purkait in #553

New Contributors

• @pando85 made their first contribution in #508
• @aep made their first contribution in #535
• @avishnu made their first contribution in #543
• @sinhaashish made their first contribution in #546

Known issue

• zfs-localpv and lvm-localpv controller pod requires restart on single node setup after upgrade to latest version. Check the link for workaround.
  openebs/openebs#3751

Full Changelog: zfs-localpv-2.5.1...v2.6.0