v1.9.4

Changelog v1.9.4

Fixes

• [observability] The audit server no longer fails to start when TLS certificate paths are not passed explicitly. #2632
• [vm] USB device passthrough pods no longer fail to start on nodes with a read-only container root filesystem. #2638

Chore

• [core] Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2026-25680
  • CVE-2026-25681
  • CVE-2026-27136
  • CVE-2026-33814
  • CVE-2026-39821
  • CVE-2026-39827
  • CVE-2026-39828
  • CVE-2026-39829
  • CVE-2026-39830
  • CVE-2026-39832
  • CVE-2026-39835
  • CVE-2026-41579
  • CVE-2026-42502
  • CVE-2026-42506
  • CVE-2026-42508
  • CVE-2026-46595
  • CVE-2026-46597
  • CVE-2026-53935 #2601

For more information, see the changelog and minor version release changes.