v0.20260330.0

What's Changed

Changes

• feat: network isolated cluster skip cse download by @fseldow in #8077
• fix: skip certificate error E2E failure caused by vmss bug by @mxj220 in #8122
• feat: unblock artifact streaming for arm64 nodes and remove support on mariner by @KananMehta in #8103
• fix: disable nvidia-fabricmanager on single-GPU VMs with MIG by @ganeshkumarashok in #8049
• fix: disable automatic e2e pipeline triggers by @awesomenix in #8135
• fix: restrict e2e pipeline triggers to e2e and go changes by @awesomenix in #8137
• fix: add daily schedules for e2e pipelines on main by @awesomenix in #8140
• fix: stagger nightly e2e schedules to reduce API throttling by @ganeshkumarashok in #8141
• feat: download kubelet with oras in network isolated windows cluster by @jiashun0011 in #8042
• fix(windows): move add kubelet failure restart code by @timmy-wright in #8142
• feat: add hotfix auto-tagging and template generation workflows by @Devinwong in #8131
• feat: support new ACL os-release (ID=azurelinux, VARIANT_ID=azurecontainerlinux) by @aadhar-agarwal in #8123
• fix: revert "feat: add scripts hotfix pipeline for test (#8046)" by @Devinwong in #8150
• feat: onboard NVIDIA GPU support for ACL by @henryli001 in #8112
• feat: run aks node controller at boot time faster by 15s by @awesomenix in #8082
• feat: log scriptless cmd mode for easier logging and debugging by @awesomenix in #8155
• chore: deprecate acr teleport by @calvin197 in #8052
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.72.2 to 1.79.3 in /image-fetcher by @dependabot[bot] in #8126
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.59.0 to 1.79.3 in /vhdbuilder/lister by @dependabot[bot] in #8125
• test: add hotfix e2e test for scriptless CSE command scripts hotfix delivery mechanism by @Devinwong in #8148
• fix: remove teleport references from ACL ARM64 packer template and add ACL builds to PR check-in gates by @cameronmeissner in #8159
• fix: adjust node exporter tls to match what was default behavior in extension by @chmill-zz in #8156
• feat: improve cse bootstrap latency by deferring non-critical work by @awesomenix in #8105
• fix: temporary disable checking for cse-overrides until ACL is fixed by @awesomenix in #8164
• fix: acl and flatcar skip oras repo tag when it is network isolated cluster by @fseldow in #8157
• fix: correctly determine compatibility with prefetch optimization in linux VHD builds by @cameronmeissner in #8162
• fix: stabilize flaky cse_timeout shellspec test by @ganeshkumarashok in #8166
• chore: add @SriHarsha001 to CODEOWNERS by @ganeshkumarashok in #8167
• fix: use reinstall command to download packages by @YaoC in #8176
• fix: set SecurityType=TrustedLaunch in ACL ARM64 image def by @aadhar-agarwal in #8187
• test: convert ACL GPU E2Es to scriptless e2es by @ganeshkumarashok in #8179
• feat: download azure acr credential provider via oras in network isolated windows cluster by @fseldow in #8152
• fix: gracefully restart containerd instead of killing it by @awesomenix in #8184
• fix: set RemainAfterExit=yes for resolv-uplink-override.service by @aadhar-agarwal in #8177
• chore: remove deprecated Azure Linux and Mariner VHD definitions by @Devinwong in #8180
• fix(e2e): explicitly validate --rotate-certificates is true true within TLS bootstrapping validation by @cameronmeissner in #8199
• chore: minor comment change by @calvin197 in #8202

Dependabot Updates

• chore(deps): bump actions/create-github-app-token from 2 to 3 by @dependabot[bot] in #8094

VHD Component Updates

• chore: add cloud-node-manager v1.35.0 entry by @anndono in #8048
• chore: add cloud-node-manager 1.30.15 and 1.31.12 entries by @anndono in #8097
• chore(deps): update containernetworking/azure-npm docker tag to v1.6.42 by @renovate[bot] in #7492
• chore(deps): update containernetworking/azure-cns docker tag to v1.7.15 by @renovate[bot] in #7386
• chore: update containernetworking/azure-cni docker tag to v1.7.15 by @csfmomo in #8134
• refactor: move acr-mirror version to components.json by @ganeshkumarashok in #8160
• chore(deps): update dependency dcgm-exporter by @renovate[bot] in #8143

Full Changelog: v0.20260318.0...v0.20260330.0