Cleanup/bump up release tools

[mowangdk]

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/kind api-change
/kind bug
/kind cleanup
/kind design
/kind documentation
/kind failing-test
/kind feature
/kind flake

/kind cleanup

What this PR does / why we need it:

Squashed 'release-tools/' changes from 8d1258cce..b12e407cc

b12e407cc Merge pull request #289 from nixpanic/k8s-v1.34
bbe5e547e Use Kubernetes v1.34 and Kind v0.30 by default
4e9eb2c9e Merge pull request #288 from gnufied/add-gnufied-for-csi-approver
064e260d9 Add myself as csi approver
c852fa797 Merge pull request #287 from andyzhangx/patch-7
bce16c103 fix: upgrade to go1.24.11 to fix CVE-2025-61727

git-subtree-dir: release-tools
git-subtree-split: b12e407cc9556acf6702ed8745d3f8a29c9169bb

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

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[mowangdk]

/release-note-none

[carlory]

/lgtm
/assign @saad-ali
for approval

[xing-yang]

/approve

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