OS Changes

• Add optional settings to reboot into new kernel command line parameters (#2375)
• Support for static IP addressing (#2204, #2330, #2445)
• Add support for NVIDIA driver version 515 (#2455)
• Set mode for tmpfs mounts (#2473)
• Increase inotify default limits (#2335)
• Align vm.max_map_count with the EKS Optimized AMI (#2344)
• Add support for configuring DNS settings (#2353)
• Migrate netdog from serde_xml_rs to quick-xml (#2311)
• Support versioning for net.toml (#2281)
• Update admin and control container (#2471, #2472)

Orchestrator Changes

ECS

• Add cargo make tasks for testing ECS variants (#2348)

Kubernetes

• Add support for Kubernetes 1.24 variants (#2437)
• Remove Kubernetes aws-k8s-1.19 variants (#2316)
• Increase the kube-api-server QPS from 5/10 to 10/20 (#2436, thanks @tzneal)
• Update eni-max-pods with new instance types (#2416)
• Add setting to change kubelet's log level (#2460, #2470)
• Add cargo make tasks to perform migration testing for Kubernetes variants in AWS (#2273)

Platform Changes

AWS

• Disable drivers for USB-attached network interfaces (#2328)

Metal

• Add driver support for Solarflare, Pensando, Myricom, Huawei, Emulex, Chelsio, Broadcom, AMD and Intel 10G+ network cards (#2379)

Build Changes

• Extend external-files to vendor go modules (#2378, #2403, #2430)
• Make net_config unit tests reusable across versions (#2385)
• Add diff-kernel-config to identify kernel config changes (#2368)
• Extended support for variants in buildsys (#2339)
• Clarify crossbeam license (#2447)
• Honor BUILDSYS_ARCH and BUILDSYS_VARIANT env variables when set (#2425)
• Use architecture specific json payloads in unit tests (#2367, #2363)
• Add unified check target in Makefile.toml for review readiness (#2384)
• Update Go dependencies of first-party go projects (#2424, #2440, #2450, #2452, #2456)
• Update Rust dependencies (#2458, #2476)
• Update third-party packages (#2397, #2398, #2464, #2465, thanks @kschumy)
• Update Bottlerocket SDK to 0.27.0 (#2428)
• Migrate pubsys and infrasys to the AWS SDK for Rust (#2414, #2415, #2454)
• Update testsys dependencies (#2392)
• Fix hotdog's spec URL to the correct upstream link (#2326)
• Fix clippy warnings and enable lints on pull requests (#2337, #2346, #2443)
• Format issue field in PR template (#2314)

Documentation Changes

• Update checksum for new root.json (#2405)
• Mention that boot settings are available in Kubernetes 1.23 variants (#2358)
• Mention the need for AWS credentials in BUILDING.md and PUBLISHING-AWS.md (#2334)
• Add China to supported regions lists (#2315)
• Add community section to README.md (#2305, #2383)
• Standardize userdata.toml as the filename used in different docs (#2446)
• Remove commit from image name in PROVISIONING-METAL.md (#2312)
• Add note to CONTRIBUTING.md that outlines filenames' casing (#2306)
• Fix typos in Makefile.toml, QUICKSTART-ECS.md, QUICKSTART-EKS.md, netdog and prairiedog (#2318, thanks @kianmeng)
• Fix casing for GitHub and VMware in CHANGELOG.md (#2329)
• Fix typo in test setup command (#2477)
• Fix TESTING.md link typo (#2438)
• Fix positional fetch-license argument (#2457)