[gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure]

✨ New Features

[USER] The provider-azure extension does now support shoot clusters with Kubernetes version 1.31. You should consider the Kubernetes release notes before upgrading to 1.31. by @ialidzhikov [#963]
[USER] The admission webhook now validates CredentialsBindings. by @dimityrmirchev [#957]
[USER] Enable support for the field shoot.Spec.CloudProfile alongside shoot.Spec.CloudProfileName and enable the future use of NamespacedCloudProfiles. by @LucaBernstein [#922]

[OPERATOR] Fix nil pointer dereference if diagnostic profile without given storage URI is used. by @hebelsan [#975]

[OPERATOR] Update CCM and CSI-sidecar containers to latest version by @AndreasBurger [#974]
[OPERATOR] Adds the ability to attach dataDisks with image references by @hebelsan [#891]
[OPERATOR] The provider-azure extension no longer configures min/maxAllowed in any managed VPA resource. by @AndreasBurger [#973]
[OPERATOR] Conditionally enable allow-egress-{tcp,udp} loadbalancers. by @kon-angelo [#958]

[USER] Golang version upgraded to 1.22.5 by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#159]
[USER] Adds the ability to attach dataDisks with image references by @hebelsan [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#165]
[USER] golangci-lint will now be used as the linter instead of the older golint by @hebelsan [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-azure#139]

[DEVELOPER] MCM adds the name of the machine to node.gardener.cloud/machine-name label of the corresponding node. by @oliver-goetz [gardener/machine-controller-manager#919]
[DEVELOPER] MCM replaces the magic string <<MACHINE_NAME>> in user data with the name of the machine when it is bootstrapped. by @oliver-goetz [gardener/machine-controller-manager#919]

[OPERATOR] Fixed a bug where failure of machine initialization caused label updates to not happen. by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager#940]
[OPERATOR] Fixed a bug where the Unitialised error code was blocking machine deletion by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#928]
[DEVELOPER] Fixed bug that removed the shoot-- prefix from control cluster namespace for integration tests using the gardener local setup case by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager#935]

[OPERATOR] Drain timeout is now correctly honored for Pod eviction during Machine Drain by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#920]
[OPERATOR] getVMStatus always redirects to InitiateDrain. It also populates the node label on the machine object by checking node.gardener.cloud/machine-name label on the nodes. by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager#940]
[OPERATOR] golangci-lint will now be used as the linter instead of the older golint by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#929]
[OPERATOR] Golang version used is now upgraded to 1.22.5 by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#929]
[DEVELOPER] The following dependencies are updated:
- k8s.io/* : v0.29.3 -> v0.31.0 by @ary1992 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#938]

[OPERATOR] Broken API doc links are now fixed by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#927]

admission-azure-application: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-azure-application:v1.48.0
admission-azure-runtime: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-azure-runtime:v1.48.0
provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.48.0

gardener-extension-admission-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-azure:v1.48.0
gardener-extension-provider-azure: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-azure:v1.48.0