Azure/AKS 2024-07-16

Release 2024-07-16

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Release 2024-07-16

Monitor the release status by regions at AKS-Release-Tracker. This release is titled as v20240716.

Announcements

• 1.30 is the next LTS version after 1.27. Upgrade from 1.27 LTS to 1.30 LTS will be possible starting August 2024. More information about AKS LTS is available here.
• 1.27 community supported has ended. To exit Long-Term Support (LTS) upgrade to 1.28 and disable LTS with the az aks upgrade command.
• A new tutorial has been released on how to securely scale your applications using the KEDA add-on and workload identity.
• Running az aks get-versions now returns all patch versions for an AKS version. Each supported minor version can support any number of patches at a given time. AKS reserves the right to deprecate patches if a critical CVE or security vulnerability is detected. To learn more about AKS versioning, please read the official documentation.

Release Notes

• Features:

  • AKS version 1.30 is now GA.
  • AKS patch versions 1.30.2, 1.30.1, 1.29.6, 1.28.11, 1.27.15, are now available. Refer to version support policy and upgrading a cluster for more information.
  • Istio add-on for AKS now supports EnvoyFilter of the type Lua (type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.lua.v3.Lua). While this EnvoyFilter is allowed, any issue arising from the Lua script itself is not supported. Other EnvoyFilter types currently remain blocked.
  • The ability to migrate your existing Ubuntu node pools to Azure Linux by changing the OS SKU of the node pool is now GA.

• Preview features:

  • CNI Overlay dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6) is now available on Windows Agent Pools.
  • Existing node pools can now be updated to enable or disable Federal Information Process Standard (FIPS). See aka.ms/aks/updatefips for more information.

• Bug Fixes:

  • Updated iptables rules in clusters with Azure Network Policy Manager to block pod access to wireserver.
  • A bug regarding App Routing's placeholderPod not properly cleaning up has been fixed.

• Behavior Change:

  • AKS Automatic clusters now use Azure Linux for Node Auto Provision dynamic nodes.

• Component Updates:

  • AKS has released new patches v1.29.5 and v1.30.4 for Cluster Autoscaler to fix a bug which prevents scaling from zero of selected SKUs.
  • coreDNS has been updated to use image v1.9.4-hotfix.20240704 to fix CVE vulnerabilities.
  • Istio add-on has been bumped to include v1.21.3-hotfix.20240626 and v1.22.1-hotfix.20240626 to fix datadog tracer zero-day crash.
  • KEDA add-on has been updated to v2.14.0 on AKS v1.30.
  • AKS Ubuntu 22.04 image has been updated to AKSUbuntu-202407.08.0.
  • Azure Linux image has been updated to AzureLinux-202407.08.0.