v4.9.7

Changelog

• 279a40c51ffa8d4535b8bd6cc677bb6ebd2e5606: [release-4.9] ENG-13034 fix node bootstrap templates can read the platforms (#8779) (#8909) (@loft-bot)
• 78ef69aa110c0eaa493acc33005195a5d325c877: [release-4.9] chore(deps): bump embedded kubernetes to v1.36.6 for emudhra ca compromise (#8994) (@loft-bot)
• e16ad2d65043dab4692f2ef286cfce452cab5b7c: [release-4.9] chore(deps): bump opencost chart to 2.5.32 (opencost 1.121.3) | fix(docker): bump opentofu to 1.13.2 (#9090) (@loft-bot)
• 8a69a729d755f5a86ad0d46ae69e15d9ece1c9d6: chore(chart): bump loft chart audit sidecar image to alpine 3.24 (#8918) (@loft-bot)
• 717d7c1eac5137d388a499de7d55ba9b290c0730: chore(deps): bump Go to 1.26.10 and update Alpine to include eMudhra CA compromise fixes (#8782) (#8930) (@loft-bot)
• 2843d5fc305ccefc79c871fc26511e0e31304ea4: chore(deps): bump kine to v0.14.15.vcluster.0 (@kaihulme)
• f03dc9194666f93e505fb08018f6136c7b4eb37f: chore(deps): bump opentofu to 1.12.11 (@kaihulme)
• 5c69cbb89e17252cbadffb9072f7e5c8a97dd5cb: chore(deps): bump prometheus chart to 29.40.0 (#9060) (#9061) (@loft-bot)
• 3693af3139d4ea463e37f493a96ea51f4f3cb9b5: chore: bump vcluster version to 0.34.9 (Claude Sonnet 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com)
• 5ce497c44777e8487184c7c1bb80b3528a2df711: ci(conflict-check): follow the conflict-check/v1 tag instead of a pinned sha (#8939) (#8940) (@loft-bot)
• 357827daa3df6088e251592b30ef004b07152d15: ci(release): call the release notifier at v3, which accepts base_branch (#8753) (@sydorovdmytro)
• a4e612849d66f97d4779998339eacb4f47281b27: ci(release): harden the linear sync workflow (#8678) (#8731) (@loft-bot)
• 95047ef674bc37e67a7b45816d7426410b28c703: ci(release): take the source branch from cut-release instead of guessing it (#8465) (#8748) (@loft-bot)
• c4636c64071c94ecc5404a4425cc5913da3e20d0: fix(ci): skip the mirror release step on sync push runs (#8833) (#8854) (@loft-bot)