parameter in kubeadm has been updated to drop an unnecessary redirection from ci/latest.txt to ci-cross/latest.txt. Users should know exactly where the builds are stored on Google Cloud storage buckets from now on. For example for 1.9 and 1.10, users can specify ci/latest-1.9 and ci/latest-1.10 as the CI build jobs what build images correctly updates those. The CI jobs for master update the ci-cross/latest location, so if you are looking for latest master builds, then the correct parameter to use...

## Changelog since v1.18.0

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- deps: Update to Golang 1.13.9
  - build: Remove kube-cross image building ([#89398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89398), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)

### Service Catalog
- **[alpha]** Adds a new API resource `PodPreset` and admission controller to enable defining cross-cutting injection of Volumes and Environment into Pods.

### Volumes
* **[stable]** StorageClass API is promoted to v1 (storage.k8s.io/v1).

parameter in kubeadm has been updated to drop an unnecessary redirection from ci/latest.txt to ci-cross/latest.txt. Users should know exactly where the builds are stored on Google Cloud storage buckets from now on. For example for 1.9 and 1.10, users can specify ci/latest-1.9 and ci/latest-1.10 as the CI build jobs what build images correctly updates those. The CI jobs for master update the ci-cross/latest location, so if you are looking for latest master builds, then the correct parameter to use...

parameter in kubeadm has been updated to drop an unnecessary redirection from ci/latest.txt to ci-cross/latest.txt. Users should know exactly where the builds are stored on Google Cloud storage buckets from now on. For example for 1.9 and 1.10, users can specify ci/latest-1.9 and ci/latest-1.10 as the CI build jobs what build images correctly updates those. The CI jobs for master update the ci-cross/latest location, so if you are looking for latest master builds, then the correct parameter to use...

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.
- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

## Changelog since v1.17.4

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- deps: Update to Golang 1.13.9
  - build: Remove kube-cross image building ([#89399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89399), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release, Storage and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Allow node expansion of local volumes. ([#102886](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102886), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Allow to build kubernetes with a custom `kube-cross` image. ([#104185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104185), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Build: Bump kube-cross to v1.12.17-2 ([#90760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90760), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release]

## Changelog since v1.16.8

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- deps: Update to Golang 1.13.9
  - build: Remove kube-cross image building ([#89400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89400), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression