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Announcements
- 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.
- Starting with Kubernetes 1.27:
- The Max Surge default value will change on newly created nodepools from 1 to 10%.
- AKS began 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.
- Azure Policy will be updated to GateKeeper 3.11 on Feb 20th for AKS 1.24 and up.
- Starting from the release of 2023-02-19, clusters with automatic node image upgrades (node-image auto-upgrade channel) will have nightly in-place patches turned off. Node image auto upgrade offers a better idempotent way to receive these fixes on a schedule (via upgrade schedules). Clusters not using the node-image auto-upgrade channel remain unchanged in preparation for the release of the OS Upgrade Channel functionality.
Release notes
- Preview Features
- Kubernetes 1.26.0 is now in Public Preview.
- Behavior Changes
- Auto-upgrade Patch channel can now be set in any patch version of a supported Kubernetes minor version and it will bring the cluster to the latest supported patch.
- Component Updates
- Azure CNI for Windows has been updated to version 1.4.41.
- Windows Calico updated to v3.24.0 for Kubernetes v1.24+.
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image has been updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2023.02.09.
- AKS Ubuntu 22.04 image has been updated to AKSUbuntu-2204-2023.02.09.
- AKS Mariner image has been updated to AKSMariner-2023.02.09.