v1.6.17

What's Changed

• ci: disable swiftv2 E2E by @jpayne3506 in #3153
• ci: add coverage from #3089 to hubble testing in CNI Release Test Pipeline by @jpayne3506 in #3158
• [NPM] [Forward Port] fix: crash NPM if unable to locate kube chain by @rejain456 in #3144
• [CNS] add config snapshot event metrics at an interval by @jackieluc in #3140
• deps: bump k8s.io/kubelet from 0.30.6 to 0.30.7 by @dependabot in #3159
• use cns logger lib by @paulyufan2 in #3142
• [fix] ci: update recover resource job by @jpayne3506 in #3162
• chore: add release branches to dependabot gomod updates by @rbtr in #3166
• deps: bump github.com/golangci/golangci-lint from 1.62.0 to 1.62.2 in /build/tools by @dependabot in #3183
• test: [NPM] fix windows unit test for policymanager by @huntergregory in #3161
• deps: bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 in /azure-ipam by @dependabot in #3168
• ci: update dependabot labels by @jpayne3506 in #3206
• deps: bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 by @dependabot in #3169
• [ci] add a daily schedule for ACN PR pipeline by @aranta-rokade in #3207
• fix: return error on interface not found and always clean up snat ep by @QxBytes in #3226
• deps: bump github.com/containernetworking/plugins from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 in /azure-ipam by @dependabot in #3227
• deps: bump github.com/labstack/echo/v4 from 4.12.0 to 4.13.0 by @dependabot in #3242
• deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 by @dependabot in #3240
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.68.0 to 1.68.1 by @dependabot in #3241
• deps: bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot in #3245
• deps: bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.60.1 to 0.61.0 by @dependabot in #3246

Full Changelog: v1.6.16...v1.6.17