v1.34.0-beta.1

What's Changed

• etcd-manager: Use image volumes to mount etcd images by @hakman in #17539
• Recognize Debian 13 by @rifelpet in #17550
• aws: Update EBS CSI driver to v1.47.0 by @hakman in #17552
• etcd-manager: Keep the ImageVolume feature gate for K8s 1.35 by @hakman in #17553
• Bump ko-build by @ameukam in #17559
• Bump Golang to 1.25 by @ameukam in #17560
• Add AGENTS.md by @ameukam in #17561
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4.2.2 to 5.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #17566
• Add instructions to avoid loops by @ameukam in #17569
• Golangci-lint v2 fixes by @rifelpet in #17573
• Use yum instead of dnf on Amazon Linux 2 by @ConnorJC3 in #17557
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.7.1 to 4.7.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #17576
• Bump golangci-lint to v2 by @ameukam in #17562
• Upgrade AWS Load Balancer Controller to v2.13.4 by @cloud303-pdavis in #17571
• nodeup: Simplify the template by removing split-commas by @hakman in #17577
• Install cgroupfs-mount for distros lower than Debian Trixie by @ameukam in #17581
• Remove unused const, variables and function reported by Golangci-lint by @ameukam in #17582
• containerd: Don't install crictl and nerdctl by default by @hakman in #17547
• coredns: Relax zonal topologySpreadConstraints by @hakman in #17554
• Add nftables package by @ameukam in #17583
• Update amazon-ec2-instance-selector to v3.1.1 by @hakman in #17586
• Drop ebtables, ethtool and socat by @ameukam in #17587
• Update 1.34 release notes by @ameukam in #17588
• Update Kubernetes hashes with latest releases by @hakman in #17592
• chore: Bump channels with the latest releases by @hakman in #17596
• Update release notes for kOps 1.33 by @hakman in #17597
• chore: Remove support for Kubernetes 1.28 in kOps 1.34 by @hakman in #17598
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #17599
• Use only systemd as cgroup driver by @hakman in #17600
• Golangci-lint v2 fixes: gocritic by @ameukam in #17602
• Ensure containerd starts after dbus by @ameukam in #17603
• Update Karpenter to v1.6.2 by @hakman in #17567
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5.5.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #17606
• azure: Use internal K8s API endpoint for cloud-node-manager by @hakman in #17607
• Bump coredns to 1.12.4 by @ameukam in #17609
• Bump k8s assets by @ameukam in #17610
• azure: Update getting started docs by @hakman in #17612
• azure: Add udev disk rules by @hakman in #17611
• Bump versions in netlify and mkdocs by @hakman in #17614
• nodeup: Use embed for containerd license by @hakman in #17613
• Update etcd-manager to v3.0.20250917 by @hakman in #17615
• Update etcd to v3.6.4 for K8s 1.34+ by @hakman in #17616
• Update Karpenter to v1.7.1 by @hakman in #17624
• docs: migrate to control-plane nomenclature by @apeabody in #17618
• Add support for cilium-etcd with dns=none by @hakman in #17625
• Update Cilium to v1.18.2 by @hakman in #17601
• feat: add CPU and memory resource configuration for AWS Load Balancer Controller by @ana-aguilar7 in #17608
• aws: Update VPC CNI to v1.20.2 by @hakman in #17629
• Update Calico to v3.30.3 by @hakman in #17628
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.7.3 to 4.8.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #17632
• Restore default SELinux security contexts for containerd binaries by @hakman in #17633
• Update etcd to v3.6.5 for K8s 1.34+ by @hakman in #17637
• Update cluster-autoscaler to v1.34.0 releases by @hakman in #17640
• Remove Canal support by @hakman in #17642
• Update Flannel to v0.27.4 by @hakman in #17641
• Update dependencies by @hakman in #17643
• Update CCM for AWS, Azure and Hetzner by @hakman in #17644
• Update codegen to v0.34.1 by @hakman in #17645
• Release 1.34.0-beta.1 by @hakman in #17646

New Contributors

• @ConnorJC3 made their first contribution in #17557
• @cloud303-pdavis made their first contribution in #17571
• @apeabody made their first contribution in #17618

Full Changelog: v1.34.0-alpha.1...v1.34.0-beta.1