v1.69.0

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

• Use containerd 2.3 in all variants (#4989)
• Add the opt-in dranet DRA networking driver to Kubernetes 1.34 through 1.37 NVIDIA variants (#4974)

OS Changes

• Update bottlerocket-kernel-kit from 9.6.2 to 9.7.0 (#5002)
• Update bottlerocket-core-kit from 17.4.0 to 18.0.0 (#5002)
• Update admin-container from 0.21.6 to 0.21.7 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4996)
• Update control-container from 0.21.6 to 0.21.7 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4996)
• Update bootstrap-container from 0.3.6 to 0.3.7 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4996)
• Add settings.kernel.zram.size to configure the boot-time zram device size (#4991)
• Disable kexec, deny the binfmt_misc kernel module, and remove the kernel lockdown defaults from mantle variants (#4963)

Orchestrator Changes

Kubernetes

• Set vm.swappiness to 150 on Kubernetes 1.37 variants (#4990)
• Merge user-provided Kubernetes eviction settings with the defaults instead of replacing them (#4991)

Build Changes

• Update Twoliter from 0.26.0 to 0.27.0 (#4999)
• Update bottlerocket-settings-sdk to v0.33.0 (#4974, #4991)
• Update bottlerocket-sdk from 0.81.1 to 0.82.0 (#5002)