v1.35.0-alpha.1

What's Changed

• Update etcd to v3.5.23 for K8s <1.34 by @hakman in #17639
• Stop rendering large CAPI manifests by @justinsb in #17650
• update openstack csi images by @kraashen in #17652
• Add toolbox command to generate ClusterAPI objects by @justinsb in #17655
• tests: allow env vars to be exported from kubetest2-kops by @justinsb in #17654
• chore: bump kOps version in tests by @justinsb in #17659
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #17660
• aws: Update Karpenter to v1.8.1 by @hakman in #17661
• chore: remove old (unused) bazel libraries by @justinsb in #17665
• aws: Add the option to set Karpenter feature gates by @hakman in #17663
• Remove unused kubelet flag --pod-infra-container-image by @hakman in #17657
• gce: run scale tests on kops by @upodroid in #17651
• Initial support for Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) by @hakman in #17664
• Drop the libltdl package by @hakman in #17667
• Drop the pigz package by @hakman in #17668
• aws: Bypass the graceful OS shutdown process on cluster deletion by @hakman in #17670
• aws: Enforce the graceful OS shutdown for Xen instances by @hakman in #17675
• test: Enforce max node to dump for unregistered nodes by @hakman in #17672
• test: Remove non-nitro instance types from the AWS scale test by @hakman in #17674
• Allow setting map[string][]string from the command line by @hakman in #17679
• allow specific GCE IGs to have public IP addresses by @upodroid in #17680
• Prevent failing DNS requests on shutdown of CoreDNS pods by @jan-kantert in #17678
• Support tags for kubetest-kops by @ameukam in #17682
• Switch Route53 domain for E2E tests by @ameukam in #17684
• Migrate Kindnet to Kubernetes prod registry by @ameukam in #17689
• fix notfound backendservice/healthchekc by @upodroid in #17692
• chore: reduce logspam when matching channels by @justinsb in #17693
• fix: use kopsbase.Version instead of kopsbase.KOPS_RELEASE_VERSION by @justinsb in #17658
• calico: Don't install Wireguard if disabled by @hakman in #17687
• Drop bridge-utils and conntrack packages by @hakman in #17694
• Release Notes for kOps 1.34 by @hakman in #17696
• Update kindnet repository links in documentation by @aojea in #17698
• bump kops-controller qps limits by @upodroid in #17701
• Update the node package list only before installing packages by @hakman in #17690
• aws: Fix missing permissions for CCM and LBC by @hakman in #17705
• Improve the node package list updates by @hakman in #17704
• Skip package updates at boot time by @hakman in #17708
• tests: free up disk space on github actions runner by @justinsb in #17709
• More support for cluster-api by @justinsb in #17636
• build(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #17711
• capi: refactor to use shared nodeup builder by @justinsb in #17703
• add support for specifying iops and thoroughput when using hyperdisks by @upodroid in #17685
• start running the access tokens and huge services test by @upodroid in #17671
• Pull CNI plugins from Github by @ameukam in #17716
• Bump cni version by @ameukam in #17676
• clean up the skip regex files by @upodroid in #17715
• remove bastion flag from gce scale jobs by @upodroid in #17719
• Update etcd to v3.5.24 for K8s <1.34 by @hakman in #17720
• scaleway: Fix failing terraform test by @hakman in #17722
• Update cluster-autoscaler to v1.34.1 by @hakman in #17725
• Update Go to 1.25.3 and deps by @hakman in #17728
• azure: Avoid spurious changes in NetworkSecurityGroup by @hakman in #17734
• azure: Allow independent VMs to join the cluster by @hakman in #17710
• update kops scalability run-test.sh to allow configuring qps and burst by @alaypatel07 in #17742
• test: Skip Pod Level Resources tests by @hakman in #17745
• Skip Pod InPlace Resize Container tests by @hakman in #17747
• Update containerd to v2.1.5 by @hakman in #17743
• Remove HugeService Test Suite to stop bleeding by @hakuna-matatah in #17750
• configure proper kops flags for kube-scheduler qps and burst configuration by @alaypatel07 in #17752
• Add snapshot permissions for ec2:CreateVolume by @rifelpet in #17757
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.8.1 to 4.8.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #17760
• Revert configure proper kops flags for kube-scheduler qps and burst configuration by @alaypatel07 in #17761
• Configure kube-scheduler QPS and Burst by @Sreeja1725 in #17763
• Include maxParallelImagePulls field in Kubelet config by @jaswdr in #17755
• Fix Netlify build failure from template syntax error and PATH issues in documentation by @Copilot in #17767
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 6.0.0 to 6.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #17765
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #17764
• gce: bump GCE PD CSI Driver by @upodroid in #17712
• reworking toolbox dumping logic by @upodroid in #17733
• Update Go to 1.25.4 by @hakman in #17768
• test: dump kubelet config file by @hakman in #17771
• kubelet: Wait less for control-plane pods to restart by @hakman in #17510
• aws: Tag Launch Template network interfaces by @hakman in #17773
• aws: Enable CloudWatch metrics for the warm pool of an ASG by @recollir in #17776
• Update dependencies by @hakman in #17777
• Release 1.35.0-alpha.1 by @hakman in #17781

New Contributors

• @kraashen made their first contribution in #17652
• @jan-kantert made their first contribution in #17678
• @alaypatel07 made their first contribution in #17742
• @Sreeja1725 made their first contribution in #17763
• @jaswdr made their first contribution in #17755
• @Copilot made their first contribution in #17767

Full Changelog: v1.34.0-beta.1...v1.35.0-alpha.1