This release includes a new Ubuntu 20.04-LTS VHD distro to use in either your control plane and/or worker node pools. E.g.:

{
...
        "masterProfile": {
        ...
            "distro": "aks-ubuntu-20.04",
        ...
        },
        "agentPoolProfiles": [
            {
            ...
                "distro": "aks-ubuntu-20.04",
            ...
            },
...
}

v0.75.0 - 2023-01-13

Features 🌈

• add support for Kubernetes v1.23.15 (#5028)
• add support for Kubernetes v1.24.9 (#5029)
• add support for Kubernetes v1.22.17 (#5027)
• Add Ubuntu 20.04-LTS VHD (#5041)

Maintenance 🔧

• updating default windows images - Jan 2023 (#5038)
• Updating Windows VHD packer job to use Jan 2023 patches (#5037)

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