v1.28.9+k3s1

This release updates Kubernetes to v1.28.9, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.28.8+k3s1:

• Add a new error when kine is with disable apiserver or disable etcd (#9804)
• Remove old pinned dependencies (#9827)
• Transition from deprecated pointer library to ptr (#9824)
• Golang caching and E2E ubuntu 23.10 (#9821)
• Add tls for kine (#9849)
• Bump spegel to v0.0.20-k3s1 (#9880)
• Backports for 2024-04 release cycle (#9911)
  • Send error response if member list cannot be retrieved
  • The k3s stub cloud provider now respects the kubelet's requested provider-id, instance type, and topology labels
  • Fix error when image has already been pulled
  • Add /etc/passwd and /etc/group to k3s docker image
  • Fix etcd snapshot reconcile for agentless servers
  • Add health-check support to loadbalancer
  • Add certificate expiry check, events, and metrics
  • Add workaround for containerd hosts.toml bug when passing config for default registry endpoint
  • Add supervisor cert/key to rotate list
  • The embedded containerd has been bumped to v1.7.15
  • The embedded cri-dockerd has been bumped to v0.3.12
  • The k3s etcd-snapshot command has been reworked for improved consistency. All snapshots operations are now performed by the server process, with the CLI acting as a client to initiate and report results. As a side effect, the CLI is now less noisy when managing snapshots.
  • Improve etcd load-balancer startup behavior
  • Actually fix agent certificate rotation
  • Traefik has been bumped to v2.10.7.
  • Traefik pod annotations are now set properly in the default chart values.
  • The system-default-registry value now supports RFC2732 IPv6 literals.
  • The local-path provisioner now defaults to creating local volumes, instead of hostPath.
• Allow LPP to read helper logs (#9938)
• Update kube-router to v2.1.0 (#9942)
• Update to v1.28.9-k3s1 and Go 1.21.9 (#9959)
• Fix on-demand snapshots timing out; not honoring folder (#9994)
• Make /db/info available anonymously from localhost (#10002)

Embedded Component Versions

Component	Version
Kubernetes	v1.28.9
Kine	v0.11.7
SQLite	3.44.0
Etcd	v3.5.9-k3s1
Containerd	v1.7.15-k3s1
Runc	v1.1.12
Flannel	v0.24.2
Metrics-server	v0.7.0
Traefik	v2.10.7
CoreDNS	v1.10.1
Helm-controller	v0.15.9
Local-path-provisioner	v0.0.26

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