Merge Requests integrated in this release

21 merge requests were integrated in this repo between 1.7.2 and 1.7.3.
These notes don't account for the MRs merged in secondary repos.

Cluster API

• [Backport 1.7] Wait for last node to be fully drained/deleted before reporting ready !8799 ~"backport" (issues: #4297)
  

Networking

• 4290-metallb image prepull implementation on top of release-1.7 !8577 ~"type::enhancement" (issues: #4290)
  

Baremetal ~capm3

• Update sylva-elements/container-images/libvirt-metal to v0.4.3 !8411 ~"renovate"
  

Security

• [backport-1.7] add exception for k8s secret in mgmt-leak-report !8768 ~"area:CI" ~"backport" (issues: #4447)
  
• [backport-1.7]: get_image_refs outputs too many images not belonging to a unit !8738 ~"backport" (issues: #4387)
  

OKD/OpenShift

• [backport-1.7] Remove user and group from chainsaw tests !8844 ~"area:CI" ~"backport"
  

Other

• [backport-1.7] Fix Rancher UI becoming unresponsive, caused by the chainsaw test CRD churn !8751
  
• [backport-1.7] Use In-built support for PodDisruptionBudget in CNPG cluster of Keycloak in a way that it is not enabled in Non-HA deployments (default is enabled) !8809 ~"backport" (issues: #4463)
  
• [release-1.7] Fix NeuVector SSO in case of upgrade !8668 (issues: #4402)
  
• [backport-1.7] Skip reload on grafana dashboard sidecar !8856 ~"backport"
  
• [backport-1.7] bootstrap: install sylva-toolbox into an empty directory !8864 ~"backport"
  

Other dependency upgrades

• Update pre-commit hook sylva-projects/sylva-elements/ci-tooling/sylva-test-framework to v1.1.9 !8778 !8795
  
• Update dependency sylva-projects/sylva-elements/kiwi-imagebuilder to v0.5.10 !8786
  
• Update Helm chart cert-manager to v1.20.3 !8632
  
• Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.15.22 !8825
  
• Update sylva-elements/ci-tooling/ci-deployment-values to v0.6.17 !8737
  
• Update sylva-toolbox & ci-image to v1.8.2 !8849
  
• Update sylva-elements/container-images/keytool-image container to v0.2.2 !8414
  

CI

• [backport-1.7] add exception for k8s secret in mgmt-leak-report !8768 ~"area:security" ~"backport" ~"security" (issues: #4447)
  
• Download sylva-toolbox-version.yaml instead of the whole sylva toolbox OCI !8774
  
• [backport-1.7] Remove user and group from chainsaw tests !8844 ~"backport" ~"okd"
  

Internal tooling

• [backport-1.7] add Renovate conf for updating the Rancher versions !8828 ~"area:CI" ~"backport" (issues: #4456)
  

Contributors

9 people contributed.

Akshay Yadav, Andra-Simona Delicostea, Bogdan Antohe, Dragos Gerea, François-Régis Menguy, Loic Nicolle, Pradeep Kumar, Priya Goyal, Sakshi Choudhary