v1.18.0-rc1

What's Changed

• Bump the onsi group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot in #1924
• Adding additional checks for data cache watcher and reduceVolumeGroup by @halimsam in #1966
• Fix build issues for Windows image. by @tonyzhc in #1953
• Bump golang from 1.23.0 to 1.24.0 by @dependabot in #1943
• Bump the golang-x group across 1 directory with 10 updates by @dependabot in #1963
• Fix CVE-2022-1996 by @mattcary in #1967
• Pass performance parameters when creating regional disks. by @tonyzhc in #1989
• Update change log and docs for release v1.17.1 to master by @Sneha-at in #1973
• Fix logic bug while checking available LSSDs for RAIDing for Data Cache by @hungnguyen243 in #1993
• Add exponential backoff retries for getting Node from API server logic by @hungnguyen243 in #1990
• Add handling for TPC to GetRegionFromZones by @hanz-vora in #1910
• update debian image to fix CVE by @Sneha-at in #1997
• Use strings.Fields for whitespace splitting to fix issues with strings.Split in case of multiple consecutive spaces by @hungnguyen243 in #2006
• Update K8s 1.32 Dependencies by @sunnylovestiramisu in #1947
• Bump golang from 1.24.0 to 1.24.1 by @dependabot in #1986
• Map insufficient free space error during cache creating to InvalidArgument error by @hungnguyen243 in #2010
• Fix units for cache size while calculating chunk size for LVM by @Sneha-at in #2007
• feat: enable btrfs by @motiejus in #2001
• Bump the k8s-dependencies group across 1 directory with 7 updates by @dependabot in #2009
• Add pageToken response check to ListSnapshots gRPC API by @pwschuurman in #2004
• Add Attach Limit for Hyperdisk + Gen4 VMs by @sunnylovestiramisu in #2019
• Make integration tests support windows 2022 by @tonyzhc in #1999
• Bump csi proxy client version to 1.2.1 by @hajiler in #2024
• Increase csi-snapshotter requeue interval --retry-interval-max=60s for deployed overlay by @pwschuurman in #2017
• fix outdated metadata error in watcher by @hungnguyen243 in #2028
• Add tonyzhc to owners. by @tonyzhc in #2031
• Relax volumeContentSource restriction for ROX multi-zone dynamic volume creation by @pwschuurman in #1975
• Enable autoupgrade when creating extended channel GKE clusters in CI by @julianKatz in #2033
• update cache logic to calculate chunk size based on total cache by @Sneha-at in #2037
• Bump golang from 1.24.1 to 1.24.2 by @dependabot in #2043
• When using the extended channel, also specify the cluster version by @julianKatz in #2045
• Skip rwop fsgroup tests when node version is below 1.32 by @julianKatz in #2046
• Remove erroneous if in run-k8s-integration-ci.sh by @julianKatz in #2047
• Clean up unused func pickRandAndConsecutive by @sunnylovestiramisu in #2052
• Add exception for dual-variable setting in utils.go for extended channel by @julianKatz in #2050
• Set cluster version on the extended channel by @julianKatz in #2053
• Introduce Disk Topology Feature by @julianKatz in #1983
• Fix hyperdisk attach limits by @jsafrane in #2057
• Bump the github-dependencies group across 1 directory with 29 updates by @dependabot in #2056
• Fix Hyperdisk Resize That Requires Iops/Throughput Adjustment by @sunnylovestiramisu in #2054
• [release-1.18] Bump sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 from 4.6.0 to 4.7.0 in the k8s-dependencies group by @k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot in #2062
• Bump golang.org version to 0.39 to fix CVE-2025-22872 by @Sneha-at in #2073
• Remove no-op log statement in reduceVolumeGroup for release 1.18 branch. by @halimsam in #2074
• Remove per-branch changelogs, reference master version by @julianKatz in #2076

New Contributors

• @hanz-vora made their first contribution in #1910
• @motiejus made their first contribution in #2001
• @hajiler made their first contribution in #2024

Full Changelog: v1.17.5...v1.18.0