v0.24.0

[gardener/etcd-druid]

📰 Noteworthy

• [OPERATOR] Upgraded etcd-backup-restore image version to v0.31.0. by @renormalize [#924]
• [OPERATOR] Upgraded etcd-wrapper image version to v0.3.0. by @gardener-robot-ci-3 [#921]
• [DEVELOPER] Upgraded github.com/gardener/etcd-backup-restore dependency from 0.29.0 to 0.31.0. by @renormalize [#924]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Introduced github pages to host the etcd-druid documentation by @unmarshall [#909]
• [OPERATOR] Fix a minor bug in wrongly assuming 24hr as full snapshot interval to compute backup ready condition by getting it from full snapshot schedule. by @anveshreddy18 [#906]
• [OPERATOR] Added a doc detailing on how to contribute to existing documentation. by @unmarshall [#920]
• [OPERATOR] add additional latest tag to released images. by @anveshreddy18 [#888]
• [OPERATOR] Fixes github pages links by @unmarshall [#919]
• [OPERATOR] Minor fixes to the docs, changed the images to reflect the new logo. by @Shreyas-s14 [#901]

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Improved error handling in deletion of delta snapshots during snapshot garbage collection. by @Shreyas-s14 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#793]
• [OPERATOR] Improves the renewTime of full snapshot lease when the lease is updated as part of retry mechanism by @anveshreddy18 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#753]
• [DEVELOPER] Azure Blob Storage client Go module upgraded to github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob from the deprecated github.com/Azure/azure-storage-blob-go by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#751]
• [DEVELOPER] Builds for non-native platforms can now be done using the docker-build make target instead of having to invoke the docker buildx command. The platform can be specified using the PLATFORM variable which is passed while invoking make. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#780]
• [DEVELOPER] Standardize the yaml dependency to sigs.k8s.io/yaml. Replace deprecated k8s.io/utils/pointer with k8s.io/utils/ptr. Bump all direct dependencies to newer versions. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#796]
• [DEVELOPER] etcd-backup-restore now uses the Restore API exposed by go.etcd.io/etcd/clientv3/snapshot to perform restoration of the etcd data directory, moving away from performing restoration of the data directory manually. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#795]
• [DEVELOPER] Upgrade the Go dependency to go1.23.2. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#786]
• [USER] etcd-backup-restore now uses etcd version v3.4.34 for the embedded etcd during restoration. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#795]

[gardener/etcd-wrapper]

✨ New Features

• [USER] etcd-wrapper has been updated to start etcd version v3.4.34. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-wrapper#30]

🏃 Others

• [DEVELOPER] All dependencies upgraded to the newer versions for enhanced security and support. by @renormalize [gardener/etcd-wrapper#30]

Docker Images

• etcd-druid: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcd-druid:v0.24.0