Renovate: Update module sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v6 to v7

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v6	v6.4.2 → v7.0.0

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Release Notes

kubernetes-sigs/structured-merge-diff (sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v6)

v7.0.0

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• Updates to Go 1.27
• Switches from json-iterator serialization to stdlib json/v2 serialization

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The v7 parser types are incompatible with Kubernetes managedfields APIs still typed against v6, so the project no longer compiles.

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Pull request overview

Updates sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff from v6.4.2 to v7.0.0 and switches the generated parser import.

Changes:

• Adds the v7 module and checksums.
• Retains v6 transitively.
• Updates generated apply-configuration parsing.

Critical finding: the v7 parser is incompatible with Kubernetes APIs still typed against v6, causing compilation failure.

File summaries

File	Reviewed changes
go.sum	Adds v7 dependency checksums.
go.mod	Adds v7 while retaining v6 indirectly.
applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go	Switches to the v7 typed parser, causing the identified incompatibility.

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• applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go: Generated file

• Files reviewed: 1/3 changed files
• Comments generated: 1
• Review effort level: Lite

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🔵 Needs a closer look

The generated parser change causes type incompatibilities with the current managedfields API and will fail to compile.

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• applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go: Generated file

Suppressed comments (1)

applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go:9

• This generated package now exposes *structured-merge-diff/v7/typed.Parser, but the k8s.io/apimachinery v0.37.0 managedfields API is built against the v6 typed package (the retained v6 indirect requirement is evidence of that dependency). As a result, calls such as managedfields.NewSchemeTypeConverter(scheme, internal.Parser()) and managedfields.ExtractInto(..., internal.Parser().Type(...), ...) will fail to compile because the v7 types are not assignable to the v6 types. Keep the generated code on v6, or upgrade the Kubernetes dependency set to a release whose managedfields API uses v7 before switching this import.

• Files reviewed: 1/3 changed files
• Comments generated: 0 new
• Review effort level: Lite

[Copilot]

🔵 Needs a closer look

The v7 parser is incompatible with Kubernetes managed-fields APIs still using v6 types and will fail to compile.

Review details

Files not reviewed (1)

• applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go: Generated file

Suppressed comments (1)

applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go:9

• This changes the generated parser to structured-merge-diff/v7, but the Kubernetes k8s.io/apimachinery v0.37.0 managed-fields APIs used by this package still consume the v6 typed-parser types (the v6 module remains in go.mod as an indirect dependency). Consequently, the calls in applyconfigurations/utils.go:57 and the generated Extract*From functions cannot pass this parser and the package will fail to compile with an incompatible *typed.Parser type. Keep this generated code on v6 until the Kubernetes dependency set is upgraded to the v7 API, or upgrade that whole dependency set together.

• Files reviewed: 1/3 changed files
• Comments generated: 0 new
• Review effort level: Lite

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Merging this branch will not change overall coverage

Impacted Packages	Coverage Δ	🤖
github.com/cobaltcore-dev/openstack-hypervisor-operator/applyconfigurations/internal	0.00% (ø)

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Coverage by file

Changed files (no unit tests)

Changed File	Coverage Δ	Total	Covered	Missed	🤖
github.com/cobaltcore-dev/openstack-hypervisor-operator/applyconfigurations/internal/internal.go	0.00% (ø)	0	0	0

Please note that the "Total", "Covered", and "Missed" counts above refer to code statements instead of lines of code. The value in brackets refers to the test coverage of that file in the old version of the code.