k3s - v1.29.4+k3s1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.29.4, and fixes a number of issues.

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

Changes since v1.29.3+k3s1:

• Send error response if member list cannot be retrieved (#9722)
• Respect cloud-provider fields set by kubelet (#9721)
• 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 (#9770)
• Add a new error when kine is with disable apiserver or disable etcd (#9766)
• Bump k3s-root to v0.13.0 (#9718)
• Use ubuntu latest for better golang caching keys (#9711)
• Bump Trivy version (#9780)
• Move to ubuntu 23.10 for E2E tests (#9755)
• Update channel server (#9808)
• Add /etc/passwd and /etc/group to k3s docker image (#9784)
• Fix etcd snapshot reconcile for agentless servers (#9809)
• Add health-check support to loadbalancer (#9757)
• Add tls for kine (#9572)
• Kine is now able to use TLS
• Transition from deprecated pointer library to ptr (#9801)
• Remove old pinned dependencies (#9806)
• Several E2E Matrix improvments (#9802)
• Add certificate expiry check, events, and metrics (#9772)
• Add updatecli policy to update k3s-root (#9844)
• Bump Trivy version (#9840)
• Add workaround for containerd hosts.toml bug when passing config for default registry endpoint (#9853)
• Fix: agent volume in example docker compose (#9838)
• Bump spegel to v0.0.20-k3s1 (#9863)
• Add supervisor cert/key to rotate list (#9832)
• Add quotes to avoid useless updatecli updates (#9877)
• Bump containerd and cri-dockerd (#9886)
• The embedded containerd has been bumped to v1.7.15
• The embedded cri-dockerd has been bumped to v0.3.12
• Move etcd snapshot management CLI to request/response (#9816)
• 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 (#9883)
• Actually fix agent certificate rotation (#9902)
• Bump latest to v1.29.3+k3s1 (#9909)
• Update packaged manifests (#9920)
• 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 Local path provisioner to read helper logs (#9835)
• Update kube-router to v2.1.0 (#9926)
• Match setup-go caching key in GitHub Actions (#9890)
• Add startup testlet on preloaded images (#9941)
• Update to v1.29.4-k3s1 and Go 1.21.9 (#9960)
• Fix on-demand snapshots timing out; not honoring folder (#9984)
• Make /db/info available anonymously from localhost (#10001)

Embedded Component Versions

| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | v1.29.4 |
| 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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