What's Changed
- Automated cherry pick of #17755: Include maxParallelImagePulls field in Kubelet config by @hakman in #17772
- Automated cherry pick of #17773: aws: Tag Launch Template network interfaces by @hakman in #17774
- Automated cherry pick of #17776: aws: Enable CloudWatch metrics for the warm pool of an ASG by @recollir in #17778
- Automated cherry pick of #17783: chore(upup): bump aws-cni to 1.20.5 by @moshevayner in #17786
- Automated cherry pick of #17792: aws: Disable the kubelet systemd unit during warm pool warming by @dezmodue in #17801
- Automated cherry pick of #17800: aws: Allow warm pool with mixed instances policy by @kimxogus in #17803
- gcp: cherrypick ccm upgrade to release 1.34 by @upodroid in #17794
- Automated cherry pick of #17812: etcd-manager: Update etcd versions by @hakman in #17813
- Automated cherry pick of #17712: gce: bump GCE PD CSI Driver by @upodroid in #17835
- Automated cherry pick of #17899: Update Cilium to v1.18.6 by @hakman in #17900
- Automated cherry pick of #17689: Migrate Kindnet to Kubernetes prod registry by @rifelpet in #17903
- Automated cherry pick of #17854: Add iam:ListInstanceProfiles permission to Karpenter by @hakman in #17905
- Cherry-pick #17879: bump golang to 1.25.6 by @justinsb in #17906
- deps: bump containerd to v1.7.29 to address vulnerabilities by @justinsb in #17907
- Automated cherry pick of #17917: hetzner: Update default server type to cx23 by @hakman in #17918
- Automated cherry pick of #17867: Use a different systemd-networkd configuration for AL2023
#17882: Disable cloud-init network hotplug on Ubuntu 24.04 for Cilium and Ama…
#17933: Set MACAddressPolicy=none for AWS VPC CNI on AL2023 by @rifelpet in #17935 - Automated cherry pick of #17945: Create iproute2 symlink for kuberouter on older distros by @rifelpet in #17947
- Automated cherry pick of #17956: versionbump: go 1.25.7 by @hakman in #17958
- Automated cherry pick of #17861: Feature: pull user defined images for warm pool instances by @hakman in #17960
- chore: Back-port pulling CNI plugins from GitHub by @hakman in #17970
- Automated cherry pick of #17980: chore: Add asset hashes for February 2026 releases by @hakman in #17982
- Automated cherry pick of #17976: drop cdn.dl.k8s.io as a mirror
#17987: drop storage.googleapis.com/k8s-artifacts-cni as a mirror by @hakman in #17989 - Automated cherry pick of #18021: chore: Add hashes for additional February releases by @hakman in #18023
- Automated cherry pick of #18026: chore: Bump etcd-manager to v3.0.20260227 by @hakman in #18028
- Automated cherry pick of #18043: Fix node bootstrap challenge response hashing by @rifelpet in #18045
- Automated cherry pick of #18058: chore: Bump Go to v1.25.8 by @hakman in #18060
- Release 1.34.2 by @hakman in #18091
Full Changelog: v1.34.1...v1.34.2