Release 2023-01-08
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Announcements
- Kubernetes 1.25 has finished rolling out in all non-sovereign regions.
- AKS begins pod security policy deprecation on 2022-11-01 API. The pod security policy will be removed completely on 2023-06-01 API with AKS 1.25 version or higher. You can migrate pod security policy to pod security admission controller before the deprecation deadline.
Release notes
- Features
- Starting with Kubernetes 1.26:
- HostProcess Containers will be GA
- Some AKS labels will be deprecated. Update your AKS labels to the recommended substitutions. See more information on label deprecations and how to update your labels in the Use labels in an AKS cluster documentation.
- Dynamic IP Allocation is now available for Windows nodes.
- Starting with Kubernetes 1.26:
- Preview Features
- IP based Load Balancer is now available in preview
- Node public IP tags is now available in preview
- Host port NSG control is now available in preview
- Host ASG control is now available in preview
- Azure CNI Overlay for Windows is now available in preview
- Behavior Changes
- The OSM addon's osm-injector pod's autoscaler will no longer scale on memory, only on CPU. The osm-controller pod's HPA resource will be reconciled in EnsureExists mode to allow you to edit the resource.
- Bug Fixes
- A bug regarding Kubernetes version 1.25 and the tigera operator has been fixed. If your cluster is already running on v1.25.4, please create a new cluster or file a support ticket with AKS for any further help.
- Component Updates
- CIS Kubernetes v1.24 Benchmark has been published which covers AKS 1.21.x through AKS 1.24.x
- KEDA add-on for AKS has been upgraded to v2.9
- Virtual Kubelet has been upgraded to v1.4.7 and v1.4.8. See changelog for bug fixes and new features.
- Azure disk csi driver has been updated to v1.26.0
- Azure files csi driver has been updated to v1.24.0
- Azure blob csi driver has been updated to v1.19.0
- AKS Windows 2022 image has been updated to 20348.1366.221214
- AKS Windows 2019 image has been updated to 17763.3770.221214.