v1.40.0

[gardener-extension-provider-aws]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod annotation is removed as pod priority (spec.priorityClassName) is used instead to mark pods as critical (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#641, @dimitar-kostadinov)
• [OPERATOR] Adds a heartbeat controller that creates and renews a Lease resource named gardener-extension-heartbeat in the namespace where the extension controller is deployed. This Lease resource can be used by other controllers to check if the provider-aws extension controller is running. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#642, @AleksandarSavchev)
• [OPERATOR] Overlay networks for newly created calico shoot clusters are dropped now by default. To keep the overlay network networking.providerConfig.overlay.enabled: true needs to be set explicitly in the shoot spec. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#635, @DockToFuture)
• [DEPENDENCY] Dependency github.com/gardener/gardener is updated v1.56.0 -> v1.59.0. (gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws#642, @AleksandarSavchev)