v1.60.0

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

📰 Noteworthy

• [USER] The kube-system/csi-driver-node DaemonSet is no longer scaled by a VerticalPodAutoscaler as it does not really benefit from it. Removing VerticalPodAutoscaler for that component will reduce unnecessary evictions by VPA and will be a mitigation for https://issues.k8s.io/126921. by @ialidzhikov [#1179]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Support for VolumeAttributesClasses can now be enabled via shoot annotation. by @AndreasBurger [#1152]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] In IPv6 and dual stack shoot cluster external load balancers will get the aws dual stack load balancer annotations in order to work properly. by @DockToFuture [#1160]
• [OPERATOR] Add validation of internal-subnet CIDR for IPv6 shoots by @AndreasBurger [#1186]
• [OPERATOR] Set primary-ip-family flag for aws-ipam-controller by @DockToFuture [#1168]
• [USER] Shoots with NodeLocalDNS enabled will use UDP instead of TCP for upstream DNS queries by default to avoid performance issues on AWS. by @domdom82 [#1161]
• [DEPENDENCY] Update gardener to v1.110.0 by @hebelsan [#1176]

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fixed a panic that occurs while fetching the status of a VM backing a machine from the provider. by @renormalize [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#180]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Added gosec for Static Application Security Testing (SAST). by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#179]
• [DEVELOPER] Updated go lang version to 1.23.3 by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#179]
• [DEVELOPER] The gardener/machine-controller-manager dependency has been updated to v0.55.1. Release Notes by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#179]

[gardener/terraformer]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [DEVELOPER] Provider azurerm was updated to version 3.47.0 and is now properly recognising the ARM_OIDC_TOKEN_FILE_PATH env variable. by @dimityrmirchev [gardener/terraformer#156]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update alpine to v3.21.2 by @kon-angelo [gardener/terraformer#157]
• [OPERATOR] Update golang to v1.23.5 by @kon-angelo [gardener/terraformer#157]

Helm Charts

• admission-aws-application: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-aws-application:v1.60.0
• admission-aws-runtime: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-aws-runtime:v1.60.0
• provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.60.0

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.60.0
• gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.60.0