Versions are not correctly reflected for clusterctl

[MaxRink]

What steps did you take and what happened:
If i have an existing cluster bootstrapped by clusterctl and i then migrate to the cluster-api-operator the version statuis never gets correctly reflected in clusterctl

clusterctl upgrade plan

Checking new release availability...

Latest release available for the v1beta1 API Version of Cluster API (contract):

NAME                     NAMESPACE                           TYPE                     CURRENT VERSION   NEXT VERSION
bootstrap-kubeadm        capi-kubeadm-bootstrap-system       BootstrapProvider        v1.7.4            v1.8.1
control-plane-kubeadm    capi-kubeadm-control-plane-system   ControlPlaneProvider     v1.7.4            v1.8.1
cluster-api              capi-system                         CoreProvider             v1.7.4            v1.8.1
ipam-in-cluster          capi-ipam-in-cluster-system         IPAMProvider             v0.1.0            Already up to date
ipam-infoblox            capi-ipam-infoblox-system           IPAMProvider             v0.1.0-alpha.7    Already up to date
infrastructure-metal3    capm3-system                        InfrastructureProvider   v1.7.1            Already up to date
infrastructure-vsphere   capv-system                         InfrastructureProvider   v1.10.2           v1.11.0

You can now apply the upgrade by executing the following command:

clusterctl upgrade apply --contract v1beta1

❯ k get infrastructureproviders.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io,ipamproviders.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io,coreproviders.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io,bootstrapproviders.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io,controlplaneproviders.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io -A
NAMESPACE      NAME                                                       INSTALLEDVERSION   READY
capm3-system   infrastructureprovider.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/metal3    v1.7.1             True
capv-system    infrastructureprovider.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/vsphere   v1.11.0            True

NAMESPACE                   NAME                                              INSTALLEDVERSION   READY
capi-ipam-infoblox-system   ipamprovider.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/infoblox   v0.1.0-alpha.7     True

NAMESPACE     NAME                                                 INSTALLEDVERSION   READY
capi-system   coreprovider.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/cluster-api   v1.8.1             True

NAMESPACE                       NAME                                                  INSTALLEDVERSION   READY
capi-kubeadm-bootstrap-system   bootstrapprovider.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/kubeadm   v1.8.1             True

NAMESPACE                           NAME                                                     INSTALLEDVERSION   READY
capi-kubeadm-control-plane-system   controlplaneprovider.operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/kubeadm   v1.8.1             True

What did you expect to happen:
Cluster-api-operator keeps the versions in sync so that clusterctl still shows the installed versions correcntly

Anything else you would like to add:

Environment:

• Cluster-api-operator version: 0.12.0
• Cluster-api version: 1.8.1
• Minikube/KIND version:
• Kubernetes version: (use kubectl version): 1.30
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release):

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