v1.14.0-rc.1

What's Changed

• fix!: replace CreateInstanceFailed Launched reason with classified reasons (check dependent automations) by @ravishen in #1728
• feat: Add design for quota/fungibility reactivity improvements by @matthchr in #1763
• Raise LocalDNS Preferred Kubernetes threshold by @saewoni in #1771
• feat: register GA RTX PRO 6000 BSE v6 GPU sizes (driver + GPU registry) by @MaximilianoUribe in #1772
• fix: enable AzureLinux support for A10 GPU SKUs by @MaximilianoUribe in #1788
• feat: add and use quota provider by @matthchr in #1784
• chore: update known_skus by @matthchr in #1734
• fix: bug where loadbalancer deletion could block node provisioning by @matthchr in #1791
• chore: bump sigs.k8s.io/karpenter to v1.14.0 by @tallaxes in #1783
• fix: normalize CSI empty-zone topology value to regional zone "0" by @andyzhangx in #1735
• feat: do not hard block VM sizes that are not known by @matthchr in #1796
• fix: install aks-gpu-cuda-lts (R580.159) driver for modern CUDA GPU SKUs by @MaximilianoUribe in #1787
• feat: support for ultrassd by @PabloTriv in #1704

Dev & Test

• chore(deps): bump the devcontainer-deps group across 2 directories with 1 update by @dependabot[bot] in #1759
• chore: Move CI matrix to 1ES pool by @theunrepentantgeek in #1774
• chore(deps): bump the devcontainer-deps group across 2 directories with 1 update by @dependabot[bot] in #1779
• chore: bump go to 1.26.5 by @tallaxes in #1781
  #1780
• chore: use the same clock interface everywhere by @matthchr in #1785
• test(byok): remove runner label from CMK disk-encryption tests by @MaximilianoUribe in #1795

Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump the go-deps group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1766
• chore(deps): bump the action-deps group in /.github/actions/install-deps with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1757
• chore(deps): bump the actions-deps group across 1 directory with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1776
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.21.0 to 0.22.0 in the go-deps group by @dependabot[bot] in * chore(deps): bump the devcontainer-deps group across 2 directories with 1 update by @dependabot[bot] in #1786
• chore: bump x/text for cve by @matthchr in #1793
• chore(deps): bump github.com/alecthomas/kong from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0 in the go-deps group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #1792
• chore(deps): bump the go-deps group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1798

New Contributors

• @ravishen made their first contribution in #1728
• @andyzhangx made their first contribution in #1735

Full Changelog: v1.13.1...v1.14.0-rc.1