v1.27.0 🍂 Tracking Issue

[cbgbt]

This is a "living" issue used to track bug fixes, features, and things landing in the next release of Bottlerocket v1.27.0.

This is a convenient way for the maintainers and the community to have a birds eye view of what's happening in any given Bottlerocket release. You'll find things we're targeting for the release, target dates, and important maintenance tasks.

But anything is subject to change, this isn't a guarantee anything will actually land in a given release, and this tracking issue is not all encompassing. For a full comparison of new things for this release, use the GitHub /compare feature and check the differences between the 1.26.x branch and develop.

Release captains 🧑‍✈️
@zongzhidanielhu @cbgbt @arnaldo2792 @vyaghras

Changelog PR: #4288

Features 🚀

• Add FIPS variants
  • Define FIPS variants #4274

Deprecations

• Drop k8s 1.28 and 1.29 metal variants #4287

Maintenance 🔧

• Update to bottlerocket-core-kit to v3.2.0
  • twoliter: bump to bottlerocket-core-kit v3.2.0 #4286
• Update to bottlerocket-sdk 0.47.0
  • twoliter: bump to bottlerocket-core-kit v3.2.0 #4286

[jpculp]

The 1.27.0 has passed validation and will be published shortly. AMIs are public and the SSM parameters should be available for this release or will be shortly. Watch for the release at https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/releases to signal when the release is complete.