What's changed

ncm-issuer 1.1.4 is a maintenance release that resolves the issues below and adds the listed improvements:

Improvements and fixes

• Optimizations to resolve potential startup issues under various Kubernetes orchestrators
• Fixed container startup error under NCS 24.11
• Corrected cert-manager import paths throughout the codebase
• Resolved Fatalf non-constant format string warnings
• Switched to the new metrics server setup via the Metrics field
• Fixed Makefile quoting issues to support paths with spaces
• Improved error handling across Go code

Other

• Upgraded Go version used for building the binary and Docker image from 1.22.10 to 1.24.2
• Updated go.mod dependencies (Kubernetes API to 0.32, controller-runtime to 0.20.4, cert-manager to 1.17.1)
• Updated golangci-lint to v1.64.8
• Enabled status subresource in the fake client for unit tests
• CI improvements