v1.34.0-alpha.1

What's Changed

• channels: Bump Azure image by @hakman in #17479
• azure: Fix small issues related to role assignments by @hakman in #17478
• azure: Deploy cloud-node-manager for K8s 1.31+ by @hakman in #17483
• Fix --cloud-provider flag for K8s 1.31+ by @hakman in #17482
• docs: Fix release notes deprecations by @hakman in #17481
• aws: Update ecr-credential-provider to v1.31.7 by @hakman in #17486
• Update ecr-credential-provider checksums by @rsafonseca in #17491
• Upgrade node-local-dns from 1.23.0 to 1.26.0 by @rsafonseca in #17490
• azure: Track resources by ID during deletion by @hakman in #17493
• Introduce flag use-kubeconfig which allows loading from the local kubeconfig by @justinsb in #17494
• Normalize the hardcoded images used for warmpool pre-pulling by @rifelpet in #17144
• Reduce verbosity of k8s version warning by @rifelpet in #17498
• Fix invalid filters for describing security group rules by @rifelpet in #17500
• azure: Add e2e testing by @hakman in #17497
• azure: Add defaults for network CIDR and subscription ID by @hakman in #17504
• chore: Use constants for default network CIDRs by @hakman in #17505
• azure: Use kops as the default admin user by @hakman in #17506
• azure: Use creation timestamp tag in e2e tests by @hakman in #17507
• protokube: Initialize CloudProvider only with Gossip by @hakman in #17509
• Wait for GCE disk creation operation by @ouillie in #17512
• Don't require . in dns=none cluster names by @hakman in #17515
• Prefer using id_ed25519.pub instead of id_rsa.pub by @hakman in #17516
• azure: Fix periodic tests by @hakman in #17517
• (Experimental) bare-metal with IPv6 by @justinsb in #16944
• testing: Fix e2e test job name by @hakman in #17523
• aws: Add support for using ECR as pull-through image cache by @rsafonseca in #16593
• Add support for passing image for nvidia-k8s-device-plugin by @sats-23 in #17519
• aws: added permissions to RW*TargetGroupAttributes to CCM by @mtulio in #17521
• Add more context to terraform fatal log by @rifelpet in #17524
• Use ssm parameter for AMI ID in LBC scenario by @rifelpet in #17525
• Add round-trip tests / PodCIDR to all versions by @justinsb in #17526
• Update containerd to v1.7.28 by @hakman in #17527
• Use official etcd images from registry.k8s.io by @hakman in #17485
• metal: Update Debian image by @hakman in #17531
• Update containerd to v2.1.4 by @hakman in #17532
• tests: Skip failing CNI tests by @hakman in #17533
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5.1.0 to 5.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #17537
• azure: Fix rolling-update error by @hakman in #17538
• Update etcd-manager to v3.0.20250803 by @hakman in #17540
• Skip tests-e2e-scenarios-bare-metal-ipv6 when version.go changes by @hakman in #17549
• Release 1.34.0-alpha.1 by @hakman in #17548

New Contributors

• @ouillie made their first contribution in #17512
• @sats-23 made their first contribution in #17519
• @mtulio made their first contribution in #17521

Full Changelog: v1.33.0-beta.1...v1.34.0-alpha.1