v0.31.0

[gardener/etcd-backup-restore]

📰 Noteworthy

• [OPERATOR] etcd-backup-restore now supports immutable objects for storage provider: Google Cloud Storage, provided by the Bucket Lock feature. by @renormalize [#776]
• [OPERATOR] Support for Bucket lock (GCS) in etcd-backup-restore is backward compatible. For more info please refer to this doc: https://github.com/gardener/etcd-backup-restore/blob/master/docs/usage/immutable_snapshots.md by @renormalize [#776]
• [OPERATOR] Snapshots garbage collection performed by etcd-backup-restore (if enabled) for GCS is performed only when the objects' immutability period expires. by @renormalize [#776]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Improves the renewTime of full snapshot lease when the lease is updated as part of retry mechanism by @anveshreddy18 [#753]
• [OPERATOR] Improved error handling in deletion of delta snapshots during snapshot garbage collection. by @Shreyas-s14 [#793]
• [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 [#795]
• [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 [#796]
• [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 [#780]
• [DEVELOPER] Upgrade the Go dependency to go1.23.2. by @renormalize [#786]
• [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 [#751]
• [USER] etcd-backup-restore now uses etcd version v3.4.34 for the embedded etcd during restoration. by @renormalize [#795]

Docker Images

• etcdbrctl: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/etcdbrctl:v0.31.0