v0.17.2

Changes by Kind

Please note that you can also download the artifacts for this release from our Google Cloud Bucket:
https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/k8s-artifacts-sig-release/kubernetes/release/v0.17.2

Feature

• Build Go 1.22.5 (#3664, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Build distroless-iptables with go1.23rc1 (#3672, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Build distroless-iptables with go1.23rc2 (#3685, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Bump distroless-iptables to use go1.22.5 (#3665, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Golang: Build 1.23rc1 images (#3669, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Golang: Build 1.23rc2 images (#3680, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Update k8s-cloud-builder and k8s-ci-builder to Go 1.22.5 (#3666, @cpanato) [SIG Release]

Bug or Regression

• Edited release notes by the release notes team will now have the sig labels included at the end of the markdown. (#3684, @npolshakova) [SIG Release]

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Add releng-ci go1.21 back
  • update gorelease and ko tools (#3667, @cpanato) [SIG Release]

Dependencies

Added

Nothing has changed.

Changed

• github.com/google/go-containerregistry: v0.19.2 → v0.20.1
• golang.org/x/crypto: v0.24.0 → v0.25.0
• golang.org/x/net: v0.26.0 → v0.27.0
• golang.org/x/sys: v0.21.0 → v0.22.0
• golang.org/x/term: v0.21.0 → v0.22.0
• k8s.io/apimachinery: v0.30.2 → v0.30.3
• sigs.k8s.io/mdtoc: v1.3.0 → v1.4.0
• sigs.k8s.io/release-utils: e30fa4b → v0.8.3

Removed

Nothing has changed.