v1.27.1

What's Changed

• Automated cherry pick of #15655: Fix modifying backupRetentionDays by @hakman in #15656
• Automated cherry pick of #15601: feat(karpenter): Variabilize Image, logFormat and logLevel by @hakman in #15654
• Automated cherry pick of #15671: Continue skipping SCTP tests for cilium until we upgrade to by @rifelpet in #15675
• Automated cherry pick of #15689: Print error message when digest image fails by @hakman in #15690
• Automated cherry pick of #15699: Use release version of k8s 1.27 in integration test by @johngmyers in #15702
• Automated cherry pick of #15703: Upgrade cluster-autoscaler by @johngmyers in #15704
• Automated cherry pick of #15706: Upgrade AWS CCM by @hakman in #15713
• Automated cherry pick of #15674: kubetest2-kops: rename control-plane-size flag to by @justinsb in #15719
• Automated cherry pick of #15722: Fix WarmPool with --target direct by @johngmyers in #15723
• Automated cherry pick of #15725: kubetest2: Mark --control-plane-size as deprecated by @hakman in #15728
• Automated cherry pick of #15740: aws: Add instance group tag to subnets only with by @hakman in #15744
• Automated cherry pick of #15762: fix: fixed an edge case with setting NodePort access in by @hakman in #15768
• Automated cherry pick of #15767: Allow setting env vars from the command line by @rifelpet in #15770
• Automated cherry pick of #15670: Fix AWS CCM defaults for IPAM to match KCM by @johngmyers in #15789
• Automated cherry pick of #15787: Add a new field for using a custom registry for Cilium by @hakman in #15794
• Automated cherry pick of #15785: fix: implement LaunchTemplate with paginator on by @hakman in #15788
• Automated cherry pick of #15810: bump cert manager to 1.12.3 by @moshevayner in #15811
• Automated cherry pick of #15824: Add support for --experimental-allocatable-ignore-eviction by @hakman in #15826
• Automated cherry pick of #15815: Fix gossip on DigitalOcean by @hakman in #15825
• Automated cherry pick of #15709: gce: Set labels on ForwardingRules by @justinsb in #15831
• Automated cherry pick of #15565: etcd-manager: support symlinking versions by @justinsb in #15832
• Automated cherry pick of #14991: Allow custom service account issuer without public bucket by @hakman in #15845
• Release 1.27.1 by @hakman in #15857

Full Changelog: v1.27.0...v1.27.1