v1.5.48

What's Changed

• chore: remove basic lb due to deprecation on 250930 (v1.5) by @jpayne3506 in #3555
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore from 1.17.1 to 1.18.0 by @dependabot in #3562
• deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 by @dependabot in #3572
• deps: bump github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 by @dependabot in #3574
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.71.0 to 1.71.1 by @dependabot in #3546
• deps: bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.21.1 to 1.22.0 by @dependabot in #3581
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity from 1.8.2 to 1.9.0 by @dependabot in #3585
• deps: bump github.com/prometheus/client_model from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2 by @dependabot in #3587
• deps: bump github.com/containernetworking/cni from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0 by @dependabot in #3580
• deps: bump github.com/containernetworking/cni from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0 in /azure-ipam by @dependabot in #3578
• ci: required changes for LTS support | v1.5 by @jpayne3506 in #3619
• backport: retry restarting HNS (#3529, #3540) by @rbtr in #3563
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.71.1 to 1.72.0 by @dependabot in #3598
• revert: [NPM] [v1.5] Remove hostUsers Configuration by @rayaisaiah in #3614
• ci: future proof for LTS clusters by @jpayne3506 in #3620
• ci: fix cilium hubble deployment v1.5 by @camrynl in #3628
• [backport] ci: update recover resource job (#3162) by @camrynl in #3641

Full Changelog: v1.5.45...v1.5.48