v0.20251019.2

What's Changed

Changes

• remove Renovate schedule as it's not needed now by Devinwong in #7124
• Skip GRID compatibility check for prod environment by Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan (@ganeshkumarashok) in #7137
• chore(deps): Update OSGuard base image version by Henry Beberman (@hbeberman) in #7138
• Ignore mise-en-place config files by Nishchay (@awesomenix) in #7139
• fix: Escape dots in version for JSON path queries by Suraj Deshmukh (@surajssd) in #7131
• don't delete secure bootstrapping files if they don't exist by Tim Wright (@timmy-wright) in #7144
• Fix kubelet flags for VHD Caching by Artur Khantimirov (@r2k1) in #7132
• Add non-sec reg keys for 10B release by smiezah-msft in #7154
• Bug: add fallback when attempting to find network adaptor by Tim Wright (@timmy-wright) in #7133
• update error logging for tests, highlight test failure by Artur Khantimirov (@r2k1) in #7162
• bug: pull pod infra container image if not cached for network isolated cluster by Xinhe Li (@fseldow) in #7155
• cleanup: more aggressively garbage collect packer resources in Node SIG subscription by Cameron Meissner (@cameronmeissner) in #7172
• cleanup: always run scheduled garbage collection in Node SIG subscription by Cameron Meissner (@cameronmeissner) in #7178
• refactor(stls): augment secure TLS bootstrapping configuration options in NodeBootstrappingConfiguration/AKSNodeConfig by Cameron Meissner (@cameronmeissner) in #7112
• AKS CIS compliance for Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 by Jeremi Piotrowski (@jepio) in #7061
• fix: Skip DCGM installation on OSGuard by Jeremi Piotrowski (@jepio) in #7185
• fix: strip unnecessary files from Flatcar's Ignition data to save space by James Le Cuirot (@chewi) in #7184
• regression: bring back storage account creation by Tim Wright (@timmy-wright) in #7179
• feat: update acr-mirror to 0.2.14 and fix latency issue caused by ensureArtifactStreaming() during basePrep() by Julius Liu (@juliusl) in #7188
• Update localdns to always execute networkreload in cleanup by Sri Harsha (@SriHarsha001) in #7176
• chore: use CI approach to run shell checks locally by Tim Wright (@timmy-wright) in #7180
• Add Nvidia service log collection by Suraj Deshmukh (@surajssd) in #7187
• fix: Remove pipeline warning on failing CIS rule 1.3.1.2 on CVM by Jeremi Piotrowski (@jepio) in #7191
• (chore) Remove docker installation ++ by Nishchay (@awesomenix) in #7173
• Add logic to get NIC from vnetdns if route to AzureDNS is blocked by Sri Harsha (@SriHarsha001) in #7192
• fix: SSH not disabled issue on AzureLinux and add E2E to guard by Tongyao Si (@norshtein) in #7190
• fix(cse): enhance ACR anonymous pull check and fast fail on insufficient RBAC access by Billy Zha (@qweeah) in #7106
• Add E2E for VHD Caching by Artur Khantimirov (@r2k1) in #7160
• feat: consume NI kubernetes packages on MAR by Billy Zha (@qweeah) in #7134
• feat: upgrade blobfuse version to v2.5.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04 by Andy Zhang (@andyzhangx) in #7215
• Revert "Enable jumbo frame for v6 VM SKU with mana driver (#6953)" (#… by lilypan26 in #7240
• chore: bump image version to 202510.19.1 by lilypan26 in #7250
• cherry-pick: fix: default AKSAADServerAppID in kuberneteswindowssetup.ps1 (#7278) by Cameron Meissner (@cameronmeissner) in #7279

Dependabot Updates

• chore(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #7143

VHD Component Updates

• chore: bump cilium private to v1.17.7-250927 by Alexander (@QxBytes) in #7118
• chore(deps): bump aks-secure-tls-bootstrap-client to v1.0.0 by Cameron Meissner (@cameronmeissner) in #7117
• chore(deps): update ama-metrics (minor) by renovate[bot] in #7109
• chore(deps): update dependency azure-acr-credential-provider by renovate[bot] in #7110
• chore(deps): update runc-containerd-minor (minor) by renovate[bot] in #6992
• chore: GK 3.20.1-2 and Policy 1.14.2 by Noah Reisch (@nreisch) in #7141
• fix: config latest patch for kube-proxy by Jack Ma (@jack4it) in #7145
• Add NVIDIA DCGM packages and repository support by Suraj Deshmukh (@surajssd) in #7063
• chore(deps): update windowsbase (patch) by renovate[bot] in #7017
• Revert "chore(deps): update runc-containerd-minor (minor) (#6992)" by lilypan26 in #7194
• chore: cache secrets-store-csi-driver v1.5.4 by jiashun0011 in #7195

New Contributors

• Jack Ma (@jack4it) made their first contribution in #7145
• smiezah-msft made their first contribution in #7154

Full Changelog: v0.20251003.1...v0.20251019.2