v0.25.0

[gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fix an issue that caused make targets to fail by ensuring MCM is present in the mod cache by @aaronfern [#199]
• [USER] A bug causing failure in retrieval of credentials when using workload identity due to missing region parameter was fixed. by @dimityrmirchev [#197]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] machine-controller-manager-provider-aws base image is updated to gcr.io/distroless/static-debian12:nonroot by @aaronfern [#194]

[gardener/machine-controller-manager]

✨ New Features

• [OPERATOR] machine-controller-manager can manage machines without a target cluster by specifying --target-kubeconfig=none. See the documentation for more details. by @timebertt [gardener/machine-controller-manager#1004]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Fixed a bug in the MachineSet controller where the machine status was set to Terminating even if attempt to delete the machine object failed. by @takoverflow [gardener/machine-controller-manager#995]
• [OPERATOR] Fix a bug where MCM does not check if a pod has already been evicted before reattempting eviction blindly by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#979]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] machine-controller-manager base image is updated to gcr.io/distroless/static-debian12:nonroot. by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#991]
• [OPERATOR] add new label node_name to the mcm_machine_info metric by @aaronfern [gardener/machine-controller-manager#1000]

Container (OCI) Images

• machine-controller-manager-provider-aws: europe-docker.pkg.dev/gardener-project/releases/gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws:v0.25.0