chore(deps): Upgrade dnsimple client to 8.3.0

[weppos]

What does it do ?

The current version uses a fairly old DNSimple client. This PR simply upgrades the client version, to take advantage of newer capabilities and better performance.

Motivation

Current version is 4+ old, it's running 7 major versions behind. No code changes were actually required, other the version bump.

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• Yes, this PR title follows Conventional Commits
• Yes, I added unit tests
• Yes, I updated end user documentation accordingly

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[weppos]

Fixed conflicts with master.

[vflaux]

/ok-to-test

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[ivankatliarchuk]

Could you share results similar to #5111 (comment). We need to make sure it still works

[weppos]

Could you share results similar to #5111 (comment). We need to make sure it still works

Hi @ivankatliarchuk, unfortunately I can't as I don't have a running instance to test against. I relied on the unit test present in this repo:

➜  external-dns git:(upgrade-dnsimple-client-8.3.0)  go test -race -v ./provider/dnsimple/...
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices/Zones
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices/Records
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices/ApplyChanges
time="2026-04-30T11:07:17+02:00" level=info msg="Changing records: CREATE {0  0 CNAME example.example.com target 3600 0 false []  } in zone: example.com"
time="2026-04-30T11:07:17+02:00" level=info msg="Changing records: CREATE {0  0 CNAME custom-ttl.example.com target 60 0 false []  } in zone: example.com"
time="2026-04-30T11:07:17+02:00" level=info msg="Changing records: UPDATE {0  0 CNAME example.example.com target 3600 0 false []  } in zone: example.com"
time="2026-04-30T11:07:17+02:00" level=info msg="Changing records: UPDATE {0  0 A example.com 127.0.0.1 3600 0 false []  } in zone: example.com"
time="2026-04-30T11:07:17+02:00" level=info msg="Changing records: DELETE {0  0 A example-beta.example.com 127.0.0.1 3600 0 false []  } in zone: example.com"
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices/ApplyChanges/SkipUnknownZone
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices/SuitableZone
=== RUN   TestDnsimpleServices/GetRecordID
--- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices (0.01s)
    --- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices/Zones (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices/Records (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices/ApplyChanges (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices/ApplyChanges/SkipUnknownZone (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices/SuitableZone (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestDnsimpleServices/GetRecordID (0.00s)
=== RUN   TestNewProvider
--- PASS: TestNewProvider (0.46s)
PASS
ok      sigs.k8s.io/external-dns/provider/dnsimple      2.175s

[ivankatliarchuk]

no prolem. no rush here

/hold

[weppos]

I hope someone will be able to confirm. The client currently running is very hold, and we have retired certain endpoint and API attributes. It will actually stop working properly at some point if no upgrade is performed.

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[mloiseleur]

@weppos We have now a webhook provider system and have started the process to move providers out of tree, see #4347

As you can see in the readme, there are now plenty of them:
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns#new-providers

Wdyt of transforming this provider into a webhook one, hosted in dnsimple GH org ?