v0.61.0 - 2021-03-08

Features 🌈

• allow creation of dualstack Windows clusters (#4176)
• add support for Kubernetes 1.21.0-beta.0 (#4300)
• add support for Kubernetes v1.18.16 (#4284)
• add support for Kubernetes v1.20.4 (#4285)
• add support for Kubernetes v1.19.8 (#4283)
• add support for Kubernetes 1.21.0-alpha.3 (#4258)
• rotate-certs fails faster if invalid ssh params (#4252)
• deprecate flannel addon (#4238)
• Support configurable tags and enableMultipleStandardLoadBalancers (#4048)
• run unattended upgrades by default (#4231)

Bug Fixes 🐞

• remove duplicate labels for cilium-operator (#4260)

Maintenance 🔧

• Updating Windows VHDs for v0.61.0 release (#4317)
• update Go toolchain to v1.15.8 (#4307)
• Add Feb security patch (#4298)
• update logrus to 1.8.0 (#4310)
• rev Linux VHDs to 2021.02.22 (#4296)
• don't run unattended upgrade if using "no outbound" test feature (#4297)
• update node-driver-registrar and liveness-probe images (#4278)
• deprecate kube-dashboard addon (#4268)
• deprecate aci-connector addon (#4276)
• remove addon-resizer from VHD (#4269)
• deprecate rescheduler addon (#4275)
• keep two versions of Azure CNI in VHD (#4266)
• update pause image to 1.4.1 (#4273)
• update CNI plugins to v0.9.1 (#4267)
• update kube-addon-manager to v9.1.3 (#4271)
• support only latest, tested versions of Kubernetes (#4265)
• update cluster-autoscaler to 1.20.0 (#4264)
• ensure containerd has image cache on VHDs (#4249)
• generated code (#4261)
• don't include auditd rules in Linux VHDs (#4253)
• deprecate support for creating new 1.16 clusters (#4256)
• don't include gcr-sourced images in Linux VHDs (#4255)
• prune non-default images from VHD config (#4250)
• fix func arity mismatch in validate_test.go (#4251)
• upgrade NPM to v1.2.2_hotfix (#4225)
• update windows dockeree version to 19.03.14 (#4229)

Code Refactoring 💎

• remove storage type from SKU lookup table (#4316)

Continuous Integration 💜

• make sure sku is exact match when deciding to create or reuse sku for publishing Windows VHDs (#4292)
• skip dns liveness test after upgrade (#4237)
• refactor Windows VHD build pipeline updates (#4105)

Documentation 📘

• Update AAD documentation for Azure Stack and UI changes to Azure (#4226)
• refine message about aks-engine project status (#4312)
• remove obsolete walkthrough doc (#4287)

Testing 💚

• enable parallel E2E tests, update ginkgo to 1.5 (#4290)
• use AZURE_CORE_ONLY_SHOW_ERRORS when running E2E (#4288)
• expose custom image options as env vars (#4244)
• don't test availability sets + 1.21 (#4239)
• E2E resilience (#4235)
• go routine errata (#4233)
• tolerate long SIG image publication times for vmss-prototype test (#4228)

Please report any issues here: https://github.com/Azure/aks-engine/issues/new