Changelog

General

[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] Remove obsolete upper bound check by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7502
[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] add test-build-tags make target by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7925
Update deps to Kubernetes 1.31.7 & bump CA version by @x13n in #7921

azure: StrictCacheUpdates to disable proactive vmss cache updates by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7487
Add flag to enable fast delete of failed VMSS by @willie-yao in #7489
Set node state to InstanceCreating to delete on CSE error by @willie-yao in #7522
Fix scaling of spot node pools by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7580
Regenerate Azure static SKU list by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7626
Azure: fixed an issue where CAS crashes when VMSS is not present or has no nodes by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7710
[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] chore: remove unnecessary logs on fast delete and add a relevant note by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7741
[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] test: add additional assertion for dynamic SKU list test by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7748
[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] test: clean up environments properly before/after each unit test in azure_manager_test.go by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7739
[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] fix: undefined instance state on provisioning state failed by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7758
[cluster-autoscaler-release-1.31] azure: increase UT coverage in azure_vms_pool by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #7880

Backport #7388 [CA] cleanup clusterapi imports into CA 1.31 by @Shubham82 in #7446

Full Changelog: cluster-autoscaler-1.31.1...cluster-autoscaler-1.31.2