[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

[OPERATOR] Change OCI Image Registry from GCR (eu.gcr.io/gardener-project) to Artifact-Registry (europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases). Users should update their references. by @ccwienk [gardener/machine-controller-manager#878]
[DEVELOPER] New provider method Driver.InitializeMachine added for Post-Creation VM Instance Initialization steps. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#898]

[OPERATOR] Fix for edge case of Node object deletion missed during machine termination. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#887]
[DEVELOPER] A bug in UpdateNodeToMachine which cause the IT to fail is fixed. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#893]
[DEVELOPER] MCM restart happens properly in integration tests now. This fix will get activated, once this version is vendored in your mcm-provider by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#879]

[OPERATOR] Removed vendor directory by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#903]
[OPERATOR] Updated k8s dependencies to v0.29.3 by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#907]
[OPERATOR] fixed IT for seed with k8s >= 1.27 as control cluster by @piyuagr [gardener/machine-controller-manager#869]
[OPERATOR] machine controller won't reconcile machine on non-spec update events by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager#877]
[OPERATOR] Architecture field added in the nodetemplate. This will allow CA to pickup architecture from machine class and schedule pods on relevant arch nodes. by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#894]
[DEVELOPER] go-git now removed from dependencies due to CVE's. by @elankath [gardener/machine-controller-manager#896]
[DEVELOPER] Bump k8s.io/* deps to v0.28.2 by @afritzler [gardener/machine-controller-manager#858]

[DEVELOPER] Phase transition diagram for a machine object is added to FAQs by @himanshu-kun [gardener/machine-controller-manager#886]

[OPERATOR] Add Ipv6AddressCount and Ipv6PrefixCount to enable the assignment of an ipv6 address and an ipv6 prefix to instances. by @gardener-robot-ci-2 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#162]
[USER] It is now possible to specify CPU options for AWS instances. by @AndreasBurger [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#161]
[USER] Implements the driver metrics added to MCM in version 0.50.0 such that duration of calls to AWS and any failed requests are recorded:
- driver_request_duration_seconds
- driver_requests_failed_total by @saley89 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#153]

[OPERATOR] Aws error code NoSuchHostedZone is now ignored on DNSRecord deletion by @Kostov6 [#971]

[USER] CPU Options for AWS instances can now be set in the worker config. by @AndreasBurger [#924]

[OPERATOR] A problem with deploying MachineClasses that reference an operating system image whose version contains a + character was fixed. by @MrBatschner [#983]
[OPERATOR] Validation of shoots now takes the CloudProfile into account to make sure that the configured images are defined. by @AndreasBurger [#979]

gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.56.0
gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.56.0