v1.62.0

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws]

📰 Noteworthy

• [OPERATOR] Added support for immutable backup buckets in the AWS provider extension. Operators can configure immutability settings. Please refer to this doc: https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws/blob/master/docs/usage/usage.md#BackupBucket by @ishan16696 [#1261]

✨ New Features

• [USER] This extension now supports in-place node updates. Read more about it here. by @shafeeqes [#1276]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [USER] Fix an issue where changes to the elasticIPAllocationID field of a NAT Gateway were not being applied correctly by @hebelsan [#1310]
• [OPERATOR] Fix check for missing IPv4 cidr in IPv6 cluster by @hebelsan [#1269]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] The images built by the AWS provider-extension are now multiarch-images, supporting x86_64 and arm64 by @AndreasBurger [#1284]
• [OPERATOR] The legacy method of providing monitoring configuration via ConfigMaps labeled with extensions.gardener.cloud/configuration=monitoring has been removed. The extension does now only uses the new contract for providing monitoring configuration. Before upgrading to this version of the extension, make sure that the deployed Gardener version supports the new monitoring contract. by @RadaBDimitrova [#1279]
• [OPERATOR] The csi-snapshot-webhook-vpa VerticalPodAutoscaler and the csi-snapshot-validation PodDisruptionBudget are now also cleaned up during the deletion of the legacy csi-snapshot-validation resources. by @ialidzhikov [#1317]
• [OPERATOR] Obsolete ClusterRoles and ClusterRoleBindings that were leftovers from the machine-controller-manager component are now cleaned up. by @georgibaltiev [#1315]
• [OPERATOR] Add IPv6 address to bastion VM for IPv6 shoots by @axel7born [#1278]
• [OPERATOR] The ServiceTrafficDistribution feature is being used on to make Services topology-aware when the runtime Kubernetes version is 1.31+. by @ialidzhikov [#1200]
• [OPERATOR] Remove the podAntiAffinity in the deployment in favor of only TopologySpreadConstraints. by @LucaBernstein [#1298]
• [OPERATOR] Update gardener/gardener to v1.118.0. by @ScheererJ [#1305]
• [OPERATOR] Enabling IPv6 without disabling overlay network is no longer possible. by @ScheererJ [#1313]
• [OPERATOR] Use minimal permissions for aws-ipam-controller. by @DockToFuture [#1285]
• [OPERATOR] Update csi driver to latest version v1.43.0 by @kon-angelo [#1307]
• [DEPENDENCY] Update csi images:
  csi-attacher: v4.8.0 -> v4.8.1
  csi-resizer: v1.13.1 -> v1.13.2
  csi-snapshotter: v8.2.0 -> v8.2.1
  csi-snapshot-controller: v8.2.0 -> v8.2.1 by @hebelsan [#1323]
• [DEPENDENCY] Update gardener/gardener to v1.117.0 Release Notes. by @marc1404 [#1287]
• [DEVELOPER] add github-actions-pipeline (from concourse-pipeline-definitions) by @ccwienk [#1300]
• [DEVELOPER] Update golangci-lint to v2 by @hebelsan [#1277]

[gardener/aws-custom-route-controller]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update base image from debian11 to debian12. by @MartinWeindel [gardener/aws-custom-route-controller#186]

[gardener/terraformer]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Update fsnotify to v1.9.0 by @hebelsan [gardener/terraformer#162]
• [OPERATOR] Update aws-sdk-go to v1.55.7 by @hebelsan [gardener/terraformer#162]
• [OPERATOR] Update gardener to v1.117.0 by @hebelsan [gardener/terraformer#162]

[gardener/aws-ipam-controller]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Update golangci and gosec. by @DockToFuture [gardener/aws-ipam-controller#143]