v1.5.40

What's Changed

• [backport] ci: standardize E2E job timeout to 2 hours on PR pipeline (#3124) by @jpayne3506 in #3137
• [backport] ci: PR pipeline yaml cleanup by @jpayne3506 in #3126
• [backport] fix: Add --kubernetes-version to linux-cniv1-up cluster creation (#2952) by @jpayne3506 in #3139
• backport: fix: pass ai metadata to telemetry during cni image build (#3095) by @QxBytes in #3132
• chore: update some dependencies in 1.5 by @rbtr in #3148

Full Changelog: v1.5.39...v1.5.40