v1.96.0

What's Changed

Key New Features 🎉

• feat(gke): Add G4 Confidential VM support with Blackwell GPUs and CMEK storage in cluster toolkit by @shubpal07 in #5859
• Add GCluster warnings to inform users if their GKE version has vulnerabilities by @kadupoornima in #5718
• feat(job): implement custom environment variables (--env flag) support by @Neelabh94 in #5856

Improvements 🛠

• failure-triage-agent: Integrate into daily integration test ansible pipeline by @hritik0101 in #5830
• Feat(pathways): Align GCluster JobSet with XPK production defaults by @SwarnaBharathiMantena in #5849
• Upgrade A4X with managed lustre by @LAVEEN in #5828

Bug fixes 🐞

• fix(gke): Update DRANET defaults and gke-a4x yaml by @agrawalkhushi18 in #5835
• Fix(kueue): Unify Kueue resource groups for Pathways workloads by @SwarnaBharathiMantena in #5841
• fix(job): restrict TPU topology node constraints & deprecated rbac-proxy images by @Neelabh94 in #5820
• fix: check node pool locations during capacity checks by @Neelabh94 in #5855

Full Changelog: v1.95.0...v1.96.0