[github.com/gardener/dashboard:1.84.0]

✨ New Features

• [OPERATOR] Add avatarSource frontend config to control avatar display (values: gravatar, none). Setting none displays placeholder icons instead of Gravatar images. by @petersutter [#2752]
• [OPERATOR] The dashboard now displays seeds in a dedicated table by @petersutter [#2776]
• [OPERATOR] Vendor Branding
  • Define order, name and icon of cloud providers in dashboard configuration
  • Define order, name and icon of machine image vendors in dashboard configuration
  • Extend built-in providers by providing additional configuration by @grolu [#2695]
• [OPERATOR] A link to the seed plutono is displayed on the shoot details page by @petersutter [#2805]
• [OPERATOR] Add optional PodDisruptionBudget, affinity, and securityContext configuration to the Helm chart for improved availability and security hardening. by @r3m1n0x [#2745]
• [USER] Seed details page by @petersutter [#2820]
• [USER] Prevent search engines from crawling the dashboard UI. The dashboard will no longer be automatically indexed by @klocke-io [#2773]
• [USER] Added support for using Workload Identities when managing DNS providers in the dashboard by @grolu [#2838]
• [USER] Landscape viewers with create shoots/viewerkubeconfig (in case of managed seeds) or get configmaps permission (in case of non-managed seeds) in the garden namespace now see the "Target Control Plane" gardenctl command without requiring admin access. by @petersutter [#2890]
• [USER] Shoot and seed status tags in the cluster list are now horizontally scrollable when they overflow the available space by @grolu [#2905]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [USER] Fixed sorting by KIND column in infrastructure credentials table could lead to table not being rendered by @grolu [#2916]
• [USER] Resolved multiple styling issues that resulted in unnecessary scrollbars in some environments by @grolu [#2909]
• [USER] Use the new rotate-etcd-encryption-key annotation to rotate the ETCD encryption key. This operation is no longer performed in two steps. This updated approach is required for clusters running Kubernetes version 1.34.0 and later by @grolu [#2908]
• [USER] Fixed an incorrect warning message for forced machine image update by @grolu [#2775]
• [USER] Fixed an issue with web-terminals that require confirmation by @grolu [#2864]

🏃 Others

• [USER] Refactored DNS secret handling to align with the new specification and remove deprecated fields by @grolu [#2838]
• [DEVELOPER] Upgraded Gardener Dashboard to use Node.js 24 by @gardener-ci-robot [#2749]
• [DEVELOPER] The firsttris.vscode-jest-runner extension has been replaced by the official Vitest extension (vitest.explorer) for running and debugging tests in VS Code by @grolu [#2876]
• [DEVELOPER] Refactor cloud profile store by extracting functionality to dedicated composables by @klocke-io [#2673]
• [DEVELOPER] Replaced Jest with Vitest across backend and all packages (kube-client, kube-config, request, logger, monitor, polling-watcher). Removed CommonJS transpilation (rollup) and legacy Jest fixtures/mocks by @grolu [#2876]

application/spdx+json

• gardener-dashboard-spdx-ref: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/dashboard@sha256:4d71a510f2c66b58d3867a8815aea6fb39205dc385fc78fe5efb8b8557e6aa2b
• gardener-dashboard-spdx-ref: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/dashboard@sha256:dc92ab6c79b27b1264e7be7aacb1f48d8abb449e18fb2abbb708aeb2666f713d

Container (OCI) Images

• gardener-dashboard: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/dashboard:1.84.0