v0.20260527.0

What's Changed

Changes

• chore: update Renovate configuration to limit PR and commit rates, and add new package groups by @Devinwong in #8522
• chore(linux): simplify API server outbound connection check logic by @cameronmeissner in #8523
• chore: update ACL marketplace image version to 3.20260510 by @aadhar-agarwal in #8530
• fix: fix delete cached kube binaries by @lilypan26 in #8533
• chore: clean up acl and flatcar kube binaries by @lilypan26 in #8543
• test: add FIPS provider validation to FIPS scenario tests by @Devinwong in #8502
• chore: add validator to ensure unused cached kube binaries are cleaned up by @lilypan26 in #8538
• fix: remove AzureLinux 3.0 modprobe LPE blacklist (CSE-time + VHD bake-in) — kernel 6.6.139.1-1.azl3+ fixes upstream by @djsly in #8546
• fix(security): bump Go to 1.25.10 and golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 by @djsly in #8551
• fix(windows): register k8s-restart-job in NodePrep to avoid PIS bootstrap race by @r2k1 in #8535
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.29 to 1.7.32 in /vhdbuilder/lister by @dependabot[bot] in #8549
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 from 2.1.6 to 2.2.4 in /image-fetcher by @dependabot[bot] in #8547
• feat(linux): add build support for GB200/300 image series by @keith-ms in #8521
• fix(security): enable Dependabot pip updates + bump pytest to 9.0.3 (CVE-2025-71176) by @djsly in #8586
• ci: drop unused environment: test from validate-components by @r2k1 in #8579
• fix: cleanup nodecustomdata.yaml which are static paths on VHD by @awesomenix in #8587
• fix(e2e): reduce E2E test flakiness (sandbox events, duplicate CSE timing) by @r2k1 in #8480
• fix: regression in disable and stop sshd service by @awesomenix in #8596

Dependabot Updates

• chore(deps): bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.40.0 to 1.41.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #8531
• chore(deps): update pytest-rerunfailures requirement from <17.0,>=16.0 to >=16.3,<17.0 in /vhdbuilder/packer/test/pam by @dependabot[bot] in #8588

VHD Component Updates

• chore(deps): update cilium-ipam (patch) by @renovate[bot] in #8270
• feat: update prometheus-collector images to 7.0.0-main-05-07-2026-dbf4ae51 by @rashmichandrashekar in #8508
• fix: remove old kube-proxy images and updated cloud manager to match RP by @awesomenix in #8527
• chore(deps): update nvidia-device-plugin (patch) by @renovate[bot] in #8495
• chore(windows): bump cilium networking package to 1.7.0 for Windows 2025 by @rzlink in #8542
• chore: upgrade azurefile-csi-driver to v1.35.3, v1.34.6, v1.33.10 by @andyzhangx in #8541
• chore: remove windows annual VHD build inputs by @aboodasfari in #8540
• chore(deps): update oss/v2/kubernetes/windows-gmsa-webhook docker tag to v0.12.1-11 by @renovate[bot] in #8578
• chore: upgrade azuredisk-csi-driver to v1.33.10, v1.34.4 and blob-csi-driver to v1.26.12, v1.27.5 by @andyzhangx in #8594
• fix: update containerd versions on Ubuntu to fix CVEs by @awesomenix in #8595
• chore(deps): update kubelet-kubectl (patch) by @renovate[bot] in #8494

New Contributors

• @aboodasfari made their first contribution in #8540

Full Changelog: v0.20260514.0...v0.20260527.0