Release 2021-09-30
This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-10-07 for public cloud and 2021-10-14 for sovereign clouds.
Release Notes
- Features
- Preview Features
- Kubernetes 1.22.1 is now in preview
- Enable multiple service account issuers for clusters using version >= 1.22, also fixing CNCF Validation issues.
- Cloud Controller Manager is now default for clusters 1.22+
- Behavioral Changes
- When turning Cluster Auto Scaler off, you can now specify the requested agent pool node number.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed csi driver crash issue on Windows nodes.
- Component Updates
- Containerd 1.5 is now available to clusters 1.22+, for clusters prior to 1.22 AKS will continue to use and patch containerd 1.4.
- New patches for containerd released, 1.5.5 and 1.4.9, which address CVE-2021-41103
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.09.25 - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
- AKS Windows image has been updated to the 9C patch version 2019-datacenter-core-smalldisk-17763.2213.210922 - please refer to the link for component versions in this VHD.
- Containerd 1.5 is now available to clusters 1.22+, for clusters prior to 1.22 AKS will continue to use and patch containerd 1.4.