[gardener/etcd-druid]

⚠️ Breaking Changes

[OPERATOR] Etcd druid will now not support policy/v1beta1 for PodDisruptionBudgets and will only use policy/v1 for PodDisruptionBudgets by @aaronfern [#681]
[USER] Update etcd-custom-image to v3.4.26-2. by @shreyas-s-rao [#656]

[OPERATOR] Etcd snapshot compaction jobs will now be named <etcd-name>-compactor for better readability for human operators. by @abdasgupta [#672]
[OPERATOR] custodian-sync-period value is set to 15s in the Helm chart for etcd-druid. by @shreyas-s-rao [#688]
[OPERATOR] Add new flag metrics-scrape-wait-duration for compaction controller to set a wait duration at the end of every compaction job, to allow for metrics to be scraped by a Prometheus instance. by @abdasgupta [#686]

[OPERATOR] Introduce Spec.Backup.DeltaSnapshotRetentionPeriod in the Etcd resource to allow configuring retention period for delta snapshots. by @seshachalam-yv [#651]
[DEVELOPER] Add support for Local provider for e2e tests. by @shreyas-s-rao [#668]

[OPERATOR] Custodian controller no longer watches leases owned by the etcd resources, thus reducing frequency of etcd status updates and now honouring custodian-sync-period value. by @shreyas-s-rao [#688]
[OPERATOR] A bug causing EtcdCopyBackupsTask jobs to fail to create temp snapshot directory while using distroless etcd-backup-restore image v0.25.x has been resolved. by @aaronfern [#662]
[OPERATOR] A bug causing incorrect volume mount path for Etcds and EtcdCopyBackupsTasks using Local snapshot storage provider while using distroless etcd-backup-restore image v0.25.x has been resolved. by @aaronfern [#662]

[OPERATOR] Upgraded etcd-backup-restore from v0.24.3 to v0.24.6 for etcd-custom-image, and from v0.25.1 to v0.26.0 for etcd-wrapper by @gardener-robot-ci-3 [#687]
[OPERATOR] All default images are now present in images.yaml by @aaronfern [#673]

[DEVELOPER] Introduce DEPs (Druid Enhancement Proposals) for proposing large design changes in etcd-druid. by @shreyas-s-rao [#659]
[OPERATOR] Introduce DEP-04 EtcdMember Custom Resource. by @shreyas-s-rao [#658]

[USER] Introduce flag metrics-scrape-wait-duration to etcdbrctl compact command, that specifies a wait duration at the end of a snapshot compaction, to allow Prometheus to scrape metrics related to compaction before the etcdbrctl process exits. by @abdasgupta [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#667]
[OPERATOR] Etcd-backup-restore now uses the user home directory to create files. by @aaronfern [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#637]
[OPERATOR] Etcd-backup-restore now uses a distroless image as its base image. It is no longer compatible with etcd-custom-image, and must be used with etcd-wrapper instead. by @aaronfern [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#637]

[OPERATOR] Revendors the bbolt from v1.3.6 to v1.3.7 by @ishan16696 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#659]
[OPERATOR] Upgraded Ginkgo v1 to v2 and updated other dependencies by @seshachalam-yv [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#647]
[OPERATOR] While scaling up a non-HA etcd cluster to HA skipping the scale-up checks for first member of etcd cluster as first member can never be a part of scale-up scenarios. by @ishan16696 [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#649]
[OPERATOR] Bump alpine base version for Docker build to 3.18.2. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#638]
[OPERATOR] Backup-restore waits for its etcd to be ready before attempting to update peerUrl by @aaronfern [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#628]
[OPERATOR] Introduced delta-snapshot-retention-period CLI flag to extend the configurable retention period for delta snapshots in etcd-backup-restore, enhancing flexibility for backup retention. by @seshachalam-yv [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#640]
[DEVELOPER] Add CVE categorization for etcd-backup-restore. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-backup-restore#644]

[OPERATOR] Update alpine base image version to 3.18.3. by @shreyas-s-rao [gardener/etcd-custom-image#40]