new release: k3s update from v1.29.1+k3s2 to v1.29.3+k3s1

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This release updates Kubernetes to v1.29.3, and fixes a number of issues.

For more details on what's new, see the Kubernetes release notes.

Changes since v1.29.2+k3s1:

• Testing ADR (#9562)
• Unit Testing Matrix and Actions bump (#9479)
• Update install test OS matrix (#9480)
• Update klipper-lb image version (#9488)
• Add an integration test for flannel-backend=none (#9582)
• Better GitHub CI caching strategy for golang (#9495)
• Correct formatting of GH PR sha256sum artifact (#9472)
• Rootless mode also bind service nodePort to host for LoadBalancer type (#9512)
  • Rootless mode should also bind service nodePort to host for LoadBalancer type, matching UX of rootful mode.
• Fix coredns NodeHosts on dual-stack clusters (#9584)
• Tweak netpol node wait logs (#9581)
• Fix issue with etcd node name missing hostname (#9522)
• Bump helm-controller/klipper-helm versions (#9595)
• Update stable channel to v1.28.7+k3s1 (#9615)
• Reenable Install and Snapshotter Testing (#9601)
• Move docker tests into tests folder (#9555)
• Fix setup-go typo (#9634)
• Fix additional corner cases in registries handling (#9556)
• Fix snapshot prune (#9502)
• Use and version flannel/cni-plugin properly (#9635)
  • The embedded flannel cni-plugin binary is now built and versioned separate from the rest of the cni plugins and the embedded flannel controller.
• Bump spegel (#9599)
  • Bump spegel to v0.0.18-k3s3
  • Adds wildcard registry support
  • Fixes issue with excessive CPU utilization while waiting for containerd to start
  • Add env var to allow spegel mirroring of latest tag
• Chore(deps): Remediating CVEs found by trivy; CVE-2023-45142 on otelrestful and CVE-2023-48795 on golang.org/x/crypto (#9513)
• Fix: use correct wasm shims names (#9519)
• Fix wildcard with embbeded registry test (#9649)
• Disable color outputs using NO_COLOR env var (#9357)
  • To enable raw output for the check-config subcommand, you may now set NO_COLOR=1
• Improve tailscale e2e test (#9586)
• Adjust first node-ip based on configured clusterCIDR (#9520)
• Bump Trivy version (#9528)
• Include flannel version in flannel cni plugin version (#9648)
  • The flannel controller version is now reported as build metadata on the flannel cni plugin version.
• Enable E2E tests on GitHub Actions (#9660)
• Bump metrics-server to v0.7.0 (#9673)
• Bump upload and download actions to v4 (#9666)
• Warn and suppress duplicate registry mirror endpoints (#9697)
  • K3s will now warn and suppress duplicate entries in the mirror endpoint list for a registry. Containerd does not support listing the same endpoint multiple times as a mirror for a single upstream registry.
• Remove repetitive words (#9671)
• Run Subset of Docker tests in GitHub Actions (#9698)
• Fix wildcard entry upstream fallback (#9729)
• Update to v1.29.3-k3s1 and Go 1.21.8 (#9747)

Embedded Component Versions

Component	Version
Kubernetes	v1.29.3
Kine	v0.11.4
SQLite	3.44.0
Etcd	v3.5.9-k3s1
Containerd	v1.7.11-k3s2
Runc	v1.1.12-k3s1
Flannel	v0.24.2
Metrics-server	v0.7.0
Traefik	v2.10.5
CoreDNS	v1.10.1
Helm-controller	v0.15.9
Local-path-provisioner	v0.0.26

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