k3s - v1.28.9+k3s1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.28.9, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.28.8+k3s1:

• Add a new error when kine is with disable apiserver or disable etcd (#9804)
• Remove old pinned dependencies (#9827)
• Transition from deprecated pointer library to ptr (#9824)
• Golang caching and E2E ubuntu 23.10 (#9821)
• Add tls for kine (#9849)
• Bump spegel to v0.0.20-k3s1 (#9880)
• Backports for 2024-04 release cycle (#9911)
• Send error response if member list cannot be retrieved
• The k3s stub cloud provider now respects the kubelet's requested provider-id, instance type, and topology labels
• Fix error when image has already been pulled
• Add /etc/passwd and /etc/group to k3s docker image
• Fix etcd snapshot reconcile for agentless servers
• Add health-check support to loadbalancer
• Add certificate expiry check, events, and metrics
• Add workaround for containerd hosts.toml bug when passing config for default registry endpoint
• Add supervisor cert/key to rotate list
• The embedded containerd has been bumped to v1.7.15
• The embedded cri-dockerd has been bumped to v0.3.12
• The k3s etcd-snapshot command has been reworked for improved consistency. All snapshots operations are now performed by the server process, with the CLI acting as a client to initiate and report results. As a side effect, the CLI is now less noisy when managing snapshots.
• Improve etcd load-balancer startup behavior
• Actually fix agent certificate rotation
• Traefik has been bumped to v2.10.7.
• Traefik pod annotations are now set properly in the default chart values.
• The system-default-registry value now supports RFC2732 IPv6 literals.
• The local-path provisioner now defaults to creating local volumes, instead of hostPath.
• Allow LPP to read helper logs (#9938)
• Update kube-router to v2.1.0 (#9942)
• Update to v1.28.9-k3s1 and Go 1.21.9 (#9959)
• Fix on-demand snapshots timing out; not honoring folder (#9994)
• Make /db/info available anonymously from localhost (#10002)

Embedded Component Versions

| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | v1.28.9 |
| Kine | v0.11.7 |
| SQLite | 3.44.0 |
| Etcd | v3.5.9-k3s1 |
| Containerd | v1.7.15-k3s1 |
| Runc | v1.1.12 |
| Flannel | v0.24.2 |
| Metrics-server | v0.7.0 |
| Traefik | v2.10.7 |
| CoreDNS | v1.10.1 |
| Helm-controller | v0.15.9 |
| Local-path-provisioner | v0.0.26 |

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