v0.54.0

[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

✨ New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

🏃 Others

• [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 [#940]
• [OPERATOR] Golang version used is now upgraded to 1.22.5 by @aaronfern [#929]
• [OPERATOR] golangci-lint will now be used as the linter instead of the older golint by @aaronfern [#929]
• [OPERATOR] Drain timeout is now correctly honored for Pod eviction during Machine Drain by @sssash18 [#920]
• [DEVELOPER] The following dependencies are updated:
  • k8s.io/* : v0.29.3 -> v0.31.0 by @ary1992 [#938]

📖 Documentation

• [OPERATOR] Broken API doc links are now fixed by @rishabh-11 [#927]

Docker Images

• machine-controller-manager: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/machine-controller-manager:v0.54.0