v1.68.0

Pre-release Note

This is the latest Bottlerocket release, and is currently being made available.
You may notice nodes upgrading to this new version, though it may not yet be available globally until the "pre-release" flag is removed.

Release Highlights

• Add NVIDIA driver branch selection at boot for NVIDIA variants using the 6.1 and 6.12 kernels (bottlerocket-kernel-kit#566)

OS Changes

• Update bottlerocket-kernel-kit from 9.4.1 to 9.6.0 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4971,#4981)
• Update bottlerocket-core-kit from 17.2.0 to 17.4.0 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4981)

Orchestrator Changes

Kubernetes

• Update Kubernetes 1.31 through 1.36 to their latest EKS Distro releases (bottlerocket-core-kit#1075)
• Update eni-max-pods with new instance types and corrected limits (bottlerocket-core-kit#1085)
• Normalize container paths for NVIDIA user space libraries components (bottlerocket-core-kit#1083)

Build Changes

• Update Twoliter from 0.25.1 to 0.26.0 (#4968)
• Increase reproducibility by using deterministic filesystem UUIDs, partition GUIDs, and build timestamps (twoliter#759)
• Update bottlerocket-sdk from 0.80.0 to 0.81.1 (#4981)