[gardener/gardener]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [USER] The Kubernetes feature gate ValidatingAdmissionPolicy is now marked as removed in Kubernetes 1.32. Previously, it was possible to upgrade a Shoot cluster to Kubernetes 1.32 with this feature gate enabled, which resulted in kube-apiserver failing to start due to an unrecognized feature gate. by @marc1404 [#12645]
• [OPERATOR] Fix cluster-autoscaler specific annotations on machine deployment upon update in worker specific cluster autoscaler options. by @takoverflow [#12678]
• [OPERATOR] Seed registration was fixed for ManagedSeeds with seed templates configuring spec.resources. by @timuthy [#12662]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] A bug in Gardener Node Agent that prevented the location for the sandbox image to be configurable to a custom value on worker nodes with containerd 2.x was fixed. by @MrBatschner [#12671]

Helm Charts

• controlplane: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/controlplane:v1.122.3
• gardenlet: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/gardenlet:v1.122.3
• operator: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/operator:v1.122.3
• resource-manager: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/resource-manager:v1.122.3

Container (OCI) Images

• admission-controller: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/admission-controller:v1.122.3
• apiserver: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/apiserver:v1.122.3
• controller-manager: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/controller-manager:v1.122.3
• gardenadm: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/gardenadm:v1.122.3
• gardenlet: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/gardenlet:v1.122.3
• node-agent: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/node-agent:v1.122.3
• operator: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/operator:v1.122.3
• resource-manager: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/resource-manager:v1.122.3
• scheduler: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/scheduler:v1.122.3