What's Changed

• Backport to 1.34: Making CapacityBuffer ProvisioningStrategy a string (not enum) by @jakubin in #8892
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] Add new AWS provider label that needs to be ignored by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #8929
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] fix: drop remove node label and fix decrease size func by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #8931
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] feat: implement template node info by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #8932
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] [OCI] Skip drain of node on cloud-provider during delete by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #9000
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] Update EC2 static instance list on 2026-01-07 by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #9020
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] Fix scale-down eligibility when utilization and threshold are zero by @jackfrancis in #9035
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] Disable GPU resource processor for nodes using DRA for accelerator attachment by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #9045
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] [Feature] Make GPU utils function neutral for vendor's resource names by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #9048
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] Fix(log flags): handle log streams correctly by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #9103
• [cluster-autoscaler-release-1.34] Add g7e and x8i EC2 instance types for AWS by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #9107
• [cluster-autoscaler-1.34] Add Intel GPU (Habana Gaudi) autoscaler support by @jackfrancis in #9049
• prepare cluster-autoscaler 1.34.3 release by @jackfrancis in #9114

Full Changelog: cluster-autoscaler-1.34.2...cluster-autoscaler-1.34.3

Images

• registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/cluster-autoscaler:v1.34.3
• registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/cluster-autoscaler-arm64:v1.34.3
• registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/cluster-autoscaler-amd64:v1.34.3
• registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/cluster-autoscaler-s390x:v1.34.3