v1.6.26

What's Changed

• revert: [NPM] Remove hostUsers Configuration by @rayaisaiah in #3612
• ci: Update ACN Pipeline for Compliance by @sheylatrudo in #3597
• ci: create test image vars for release test by @camrynl in #3639
• chore: update tolerations in cilium operator manifests, makefile fix by @camrynl in #3640
• [forwardport] ci: future proof for LTS clusters (#3620) by @jpayne3506 in #3626
• deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0 by @dependabot in #3631
• deps: bump github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim from 0.12.9 to 0.13.0 by @dependabot in #3642
• ci: fix nightly pipeline cluster name reference by @camrynl in #3656
• change apipa endpoint gateway back to .1 by @ZetaoZhuang in #3653
• [ci] fix: make variable assignment by @jpayne3506 in #3655
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 by @dependabot in #3661
• chore: address todo items in cilium e2e templates by @camrynl in #3675
• ci: use publish code coverage results v1 by @QxBytes in #3647
• deps: bump github.com/vishvananda/netlink from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 by @dependabot in #3651
• deps: bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.63.0 to 0.64.0 by @dependabot in #3668
• chore: updating cilium nightly charts by @camrynl in #3676
• feat: add cilium nodesubnet target to hack/Makefile by @santhoshmprabhu in #3677
• ci: mtu check for cilium e2e by @camrynl in #3624
• ci: [1/?] Automated version update pipeline by @jpayne3506 in #3667
• revert: [NPM] [CVEs] Revert Manual NPM Linux Dockerfile Package Installations by @rayaisaiah in #3680
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.71.1 to 1.72.2 by @dependabot in #3686
• ci: Add Binary Signing Task by @sheylatrudo in #3649
• fix: use "vEthernet (LoopbackAdapterHostNCConnectivity)" when CNS is … by @behzad-mir in #3693
• Fix CNS and CNI ETW log interference issue by @byte-msft in #3692
• ci: output manifest tarball with Oras by @jpayne3506 in #3698
• deps: bump golang.org/x/time from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 by @dependabot in #3704
• Fix CNS IP demand overcounting by filtering terminal Pods in IPAMv2 by @copilot-swe-agent in #3697
• deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.38.0 to 0.39.0 by @dependabot in #3703
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.72.2 to 1.73.0 by @dependabot in #3705
• deps: bump github.com/labstack/echo/v4 from 4.13.3 to 4.13.4 by @dependabot in #3683
• deps: bump golang.org/x/net from 0.40.0 to 0.41.0 by @dependabot in #3702
• Remove deprecated reviewers field from dependabot.yaml by @copilot-swe-agent in #3715
• deps: bump the go_modules group in /build/tools with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3728
• Fix golangci-lint config by @copilot-swe-agent in #3701
• feat: explicit optional compression in dropgz by @rbtr in #3648
• deps: bump the go_modules group in /azure-ipam with 3 updates by @dependabot in #3690
• fix: [NPM] [Backport] Update Ubuntu Base Image to 24.04 by @rayaisaiah in #3743
• [Service Tags] ci: Backport service/virtual tag updates to release/v1.6 by @k-routhu in #3754

New Contributors

• @byte-msft made their first contribution in #3692

Full Changelog: v1.6.25...v1.6.26