v1.21.1 Release 2024-03-06

The executor images in this release are:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.21.1
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug images are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.21.1-debug

The slim executor images which don't contain any authentication binaries are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:slim
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.21.1-slim

Highlights:
* this patch release updates dependencies to remove CVEs present in v1.21.0, for patched dependencies see PRs included in this release below

Dependency Updates:
* chore(deps): bump cloud.google.com/go/storage from 1.38.0 to 1.39.0 #3040
* chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.6 to 1.7.13 #3038
* chore(deps): bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 #3037
* chore(deps): bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 #3039

Testing:
* test: fix test breakage caused by external dependency update #3049

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:
- Aaron Prindle
- dependabot[bot]