v1.41.0

[gardener/terraformer]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Terraform alicloud provider is updated to v1.213.0 by @shaoyongfeng [gardener/terraformer#145]

[gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Disk detachment step is skipped while terminating terminal state vms. Terminal state vms have provisioningState as Failed by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#120]

[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Removes node.machine.sapcloud.io/not-managed-by-mcm annotation from nodes managed by the MCM. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#866]
• [OPERATOR] Fix for edge case of Node object deletion missed during machine termination. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#887]
• [DEVELOPER] MCM restart happens properly in integration tests now. This fix will get activated, once this version is vendored in your mcm-provider by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#879]

🏃 Others

• [DEVELOPER] Bump k8s.io/* deps to v0.28.2 by @afritzler [gardener/machine-controller-manager#858]
• [DEVELOPER] go-git now removed from dependencies due to CVE's. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#896]
• [OPERATOR] Architecture field added in the nodetemplate. This will allow CA to pickup architecture from machine class and schedule pods on relevant arch nodes. by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#894]
• [OPERATOR] machine controller won't reconcile machine on non-spec update events by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager#877]
• [OPERATOR] fixed IT for seed with k8s >= 1.27 as control cluster by @piyuagr [gardener/machine-controller-manager#869]
• [OPERATOR] The default machine-safety-orphan-vms-period has been reduced from 30m to 15m. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#866]

📖 Documentation

• [DEVELOPER] Phase transition diagram for a machine object is added to FAQs by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager#886]

[gardener/remedy-controller]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] Change OCI Image Registry from GCR (eu.gcr.io/gardener-project) to Artifact-Registry (europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases). Users should update their references.
  by @ccwienk [gardener/remedy-controller#61]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Disable unused health bind address by @MartinWeindel [gardener/remedy-controller#56]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Moved integration test to internal CI because of security constraints by @MartinWeindel [gardener/remedy-controller#57]
• [OPERATOR] Update go version to v1.21 by @kon-angelo [gardener/remedy-controller#62]

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• [OPERATOR] CA and server certificates for the admission component are managed automatically. Passing custom certificates via Helm values is not supported anymore. by @timuthy [#774]

✨ New Features

• [USER] The provider-azure extension does now support shoot clusters with Kubernetes version 1.29. You should consider the Kubernetes release notes before upgrading to 1.29. by @acumino [#785]

🏃 Others

• [DEVELOPER] The vendor directory was removed in favor of the go mod cache. by @timuthy [#774]
• [OPERATOR] The code related to machine-controller-manager management has been cleaned up because gardenlet is responsible for it since gardener/[email protected]. by @kon-angelo [#783]
• [OPERATOR] Bump github.com/gardener/gardener to 1.86.0. by @timuthy [#774]

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-azure:v1.41.0
• gardener-extension-provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.41.0