[github.com/gardener/etcd-backup-restore:v0.40.0]

📰 Noteworthy

• [DEPENDENCY] Upgrade k8s.io/* dependencies to v0.34.2, and direct dependencies to latest desired versions. by @renormalize [#937]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Adds the additional handling to reduce file permissions of safe_guard file. by @ishan16696 [#933]
• [OPERATOR] Upgrade to Go 1.25 in Dockerfile and Actions. by @renormalize [#929]
• [USER] Snapshot compression is now enabled by default.
  If you wish to disable the snapshot compression then please set this flag: --compress-snapshots to false. by @ishan16696 [#927]
• [DEVELOPER] Set least permissible privileges for GHA build for release & non-release workflows by @anveshreddy18 [#942]

Container (OCI) Images

• etcdbrctl: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcdbrctl:v0.40.0