v1.46.0

[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure]

📰 Noteworthy

• [USER] When no CloudConfiguration is given, the Azure Cloud instance to connect to will be inferred from the region configured for the shoot by @AndreasBurger [#875]

✨ New Features

• [OPERATOR] Helm charts of extension and admission controller are published as OCI artifacts now. by @oliver-goetz [#920]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Removed unnecessary preStop hook from node-driver-registrar in csi-driver-node, as socket removal is now handled internally by node-driver-registrar, resolving distroless image error. by @AndreasBurger [#912]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] A priorityClassName can now be set for the admission deployment via the gardener-extension-admission-azure Helm chart. by @timuthy [#913]
• [OPERATOR] Update the VPA CRD used for testing locally by @hebelsan [#926]
• [OPERATOR] Inserts architecture from worker to the machine class by @sssash18 [#924]
• [OPERATOR] Deletion will now continue if non-gardener-managed loadbalancers and subnets were already deleted beforehand by @AndreasBurger [#925]
• [OPERATOR] Starting with gardenlet >= v1.98.0, use controlplane webhook object selector to limit mutator calls. by @LucaBernstein [#905]

[gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure]

📰 Noteworthy

• [USER] Fixed a bug that prevented everything but authentication from connecting to non-public Azure Cloud instances. by @AndreasBurger [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#157]

Helm Charts

• admission-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-azure:v1.46.0
• provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.46.0

Docker Images

• gardener-extension-admission-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-azure:v1.46.0
• gardener-extension-provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.46.0