[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

✨ New Features

[DEVELOPER] MCM adds the name of the machine to node.gardener.cloud/machine-name label of the corresponding node. by @oliver-goetz [gardener/machine-controller-manager#919]
[DEVELOPER] MCM replaces the magic string <<MACHINE_NAME>> in user data with the name of the machine when it is bootstrapped. by @oliver-goetz [gardener/machine-controller-manager#919]

[DEVELOPER] Fixed bug that removed the shoot-- prefix from control cluster namespace for integration tests using the gardener local setup case by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager#935]
[OPERATOR] Fixed a bug where failure of machine initialization caused label updates to not happen. by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager#940]

[DEVELOPER] The following dependencies are updated:
- k8s.io/* : v0.29.3 -> v0.31.0 by @ary1992 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#938]
[OPERATOR] Drain timeout is now correctly honored for Pod eviction during Machine Drain by @sssash18 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#920]
[OPERATOR] getVMStatus always redirects to InitiateDrain. It also populates the node label on the machine object by checking node.gardener.cloud/machine-name label on the nodes. by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager#940]
[OPERATOR] golangci-lint will now be used as the linter instead of the older golint by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#929]
[OPERATOR] Golang version used is now upgraded to 1.22.5 by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#929]

[OPERATOR] Broken API doc links are now fixed by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager#927]

[OPERATOR] Use ProviderID as a fallback for fetching the VM. by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#173]
[OPERATOR] Golangci-lint will now be used as the linter instead of the older golint. by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#168]
[OPERATOR] InitializeMachine returns Uninitialized error code if VM is not found. by @thiyyakat [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#173]
[OPERATOR] Golang version used upgraded to 1.22.5 by @rishabh-11 [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#166]
[OPERATOR] Set PrimaryIpv6 flag for instances with IPv6 addresses. by @axel7born [gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws#174]

[USER] Enable support for the field shoot.Spec.CloudProfile alongside cloudProfileName and enable the future use of NamespacedCloudProfile. by @LucaBernstein [#1000]
[USER] The admission webhook now validates CredentialsBindings. by @dimityrmirchev [#1047]
[USER] The provider-aws extension does now support shoot clusters with Kubernetes version 1.31. You should consider the Kubernetes release notes before upgrading to 1.31. by @ialidzhikov [#1055]

[OPERATOR] An issue causing Shoot force deletion to fail because the control plane webhook failing to get the Infrastructure object from the Seed cluster is now fixed. The control plane webhook now reads the infrastructureConfig from the Shoot spec in the Cluster resource. Previously, it was fetching the Infrastructure object from the Seed cluster and was reading the infrastructureConfig from there. by @Kostov6 [#1068]
[USER] Fix cleanup of routing table associations by @hebelsan [#1083]

[OPERATOR] The following images are updated:
registry.k8s.io/provider-aws/aws-ebs-csi-driver: v1.29.0 -> v1.35.0 by @scs-gardener-team-gitlab [#1080]
[OPERATOR] Add flow migration integration test by @kon-angelo [#1046]
[OPERATOR] Create IPv6 ServiceCIDR and write IPv6 ranges to Infra.Status.Networking by @axel7born [#1081]
[OPERATOR] Enable nat64 and dns64 for IPv6 shoot clusters. by @DockToFuture [#1082]
[OPERATOR] The provider-aws extension no longer configures min/maxAllowed in any managed VPA resource. by @hebelsan [#1070]
[OPERATOR] Fix error classification when deleting DNS record sets by @hebelsan [#1033]
[OPERATOR] Update cloud-provider images including CSI driver images by @hebelsan [#1072]
[OPERATOR] The shoot-webhook that mutates the addons-nginx-ingress-controller ConfigMap does now specify object selector. The webhook will now intercept only requests for the addons-nginx-ingress-controller ConfigMap. by @ialidzhikov [#988]
[OPERATOR] aws-custom-route-controller is disabled for IPv6. by @DockToFuture [#1088]
[OPERATOR] Add ipv6 support to deploy IPv6 shoots. by @axel7born [#1024]
[OPERATOR] The aws-ipam-controller is enabled for IPv6 and dual stack shoot clusters. It replaces the IPAM of the cloud-controller-manager and kube-controller-manager and supports additionally prefix delegation in case of IPv6 or dual stack. by @DockToFuture [#984]
[DEVELOPER] Update gardener/gardener to 1.103.0 and golang to 1.23.0 by @hebelsan [#1049]

admission-aws-application: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-aws-application:v1.58.0
admission-aws-runtime: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/admission-aws-runtime:v1.58.0
provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/charts/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.58.0

gardener-extension-admission-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/admission-aws:v1.58.0
gardener-extension-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/extensions/provider-aws:v1.58.0