v2.23.2

Container-Managers

• [containerd] Fix invalid version check in containerd jinja-template config (#10620, @khanhngobackend)

API Change

• Make kubernetes 1.27.9 the default version (#10797, @VannTen)

Feature

• Don't fail on 304 Not Modified for an already downloaded file (#10452, @sathieu)
• Update kubernetes default version to 1.27.9
• Update etcd version for 1.27 and 1.26 to 3.5.10 (#10797, @VannTen)

Failing Test

• Bump vagrant version 2.3.7 (#10788, @yankay)

Bug or Regression

• Fix calico-node in etcd mode. (#10768, @VannTen)
• Fix download retry when get_url has no status_code (#10613, @RomainMou) (#10791, @VannTen)
• Kube-controller-manager will no longer assign pod CIDRs to cluster nodes when using calico (with its default IPAM, calico_ipam_host_local now has a default value of false) [⚠️ NOTE users using a non-true value for calico_ipam_host_local will need to change it to true] (#10639, @VannTen)

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Kubespray collection will have the correct collection version. (#10728, @VannTen)