Release 2023-04-02
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Announcements
- Starting on March 21, 2023, traffic to k8s.gcr.io will be redirected to registry.k8s.io, following the community announcement.
- Docker container runtime will be retired for Windows nodepools on May 1, 2023. After docker container runtime is retired, you may remain on existing deployed instances but scaling operations will fail, nodepool creation will fail, and you will be out of support. Follow the detailed steps in our documentation to upgrade to containerd.
- AKS has deprecated Kubernetes version 1.23 on April 2, 2023. Please upgrade your AKS clusters to version 1.24 or above.
Release notes
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Feature
- Terminating a long running operation on an AKS cluster is now Generally available.
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Bug Fix
- Fixed an issue that network connectivity lost on systemd-networkd restart.
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Behavior Changes
- L7 proxy for Azure CNI powered by Cilium is disabled and not supported for GA
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Component Updates
- Workload Identity has been updated to version v1.0.0.
- Azure File CSI driver has been updated to version v1.26.1 on AKS 1.26 which has CVE fixes
- Add action to clean up orphaned disks in node management group. These disks were created by VMAS node and will not be used after VMs are deleted.
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image has been updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-202303.28.0.
- AKS Ubuntu 22.04 image has been updated to AKSUbuntu-2204-202303.28.0.
- AKS Mariner image has been updated to AKSMariner-202303.28.0.