What's Changed

• Automated cherry pick of #17705: aws: Add missing permissions for Cloud Controller Manager by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17706
• Automated cherry pick of #17720: Update etcd to v3.5.24 for K8s <1.34 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17721
• Automated cherry pick of #17722: scaleway: Fix failing terraform test by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17723
• Automated cherry pick of #17709: tests: free up disk space on github actions runner by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17731
• Automated cherry pick of #17725: Update cluster-autoscaler to v1.34.1 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17726
• Update Go to 1.25.3 and some deps by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17732
• Automated cherry pick of #17734: azure: Avoid spurious changes in NetworkSecurityGroup by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17735
• Automated cherry pick of #17745: Skip Pod Level Resources tests #17747: Skip Pod InPlace Resize Container tests by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17748
• Automated cherry pick of #17743: Update containerd to v2.1.5 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17744
• Automated cherry pick of #17757: Add snapshot permissions for ec2:CreateVolume by @rifelpet in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17758
• Automated cherry pick of #17768: Update Go to 1.25.4 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17769
• Release 1.34.1 by @hakman in https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/17770

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/compare/v1.34.0...v1.34.1