chore(main): release 0.74.0

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0.74.0 (2026-03-19)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• upgrade to Helm 4 (#4350)
• deploy: override actions wait commands (#4531)

Features

• add retries on create operations (#4664) (23afb84)
• connect: create zarf connect resource sub-command (#4683) (e4f9299)
• init: clarify --registry-secret or --registry-url (#4694) (3ea9a4d)
• init: enable switching between nodeport and proxy mode (#4608) (bb5d1df)
• publish: support for tag specification (#4641) (9cf8912)
• state: remove architecture field (#4701) (910c646)
• stop managing scale down policy in CLI (#4725) (d305f82)
• update kubectl vender logic (#4676) (0847c52)
• upgrade to Helm 4 (#4350) (505d1df)
• use legacy Helm wait + reconciliation Healthchecks (#4720) (fde9d53)
• use Zarf Package Config as image config (#4675) (e9262d4)

Bug Fixes

• agent: support create idempotency for mutation operations (#4691) (d0cdef9)
• close chunk file descriptors per iteration in SplitFile (#4656) (a9d1700)
• close leaked file handles in pull_test.go HTTP handlers (#4657) (0ef41d7)
• deploy: override actions wait commands (#4531) (39fd337)
• set field manager once during pre-run to avoid data race (#4707) (88f60fa)

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