v1.6.31

What's Changed

• deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.39.0 to 0.40.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3817
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity from 1.10.0 to 1.10.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3819
• deps: bump github.com/containernetworking/cni from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0 in /azure-ipam by @dependabot[bot] in #3812
• deps: bump golang.org/x/net from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3810
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/containerservice/armcontainerservice/v4 from 4.7.0-beta.1 to 4.9.0-beta.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3847
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-container-networking from 1.6.22 to 1.7.0 in /azure-ipam by @dependabot[bot] in #3809
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.73.0 to 1.74.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #3856
• deps: bump github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore from 1.18.0 to 1.18.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3855
• ci: Fixing build pipeline for 1.6 release by @apontejaj in #3859
• ci: backport relevant signing changes to release/v1.6 by @jpayne3506 in #3862
• deps: bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3866

Full Changelog: v1.6.30...v1.6.31