- [SIG OpenStack](#sig-openstack-1)
    - [SIG Release](#sig-release)
    - [SIG Scheduling](#sig-scheduling-1)
    - [SIG Storage](#sig-storage-1)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.13.0-rc.2](#v1130-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.13.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1130-rc2)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-13)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-13)

      - [Garbage Collector](#garbage-collector)
      - [Monitoring/Prometheus](#monitoringprometheus)
      - [Go Client](#go-client)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.8.0-rc.1](#v180-rc1)
  - [Downloads for v1.8.0-rc.1](#downloads-for-v180-rc1)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-16)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-16)

  Two annotations have been promoted to API fields:

  * Service.Spec.ExternalTrafficPolicy was 'service.beta.kubernetes.io/external-traffic' annotation.

    - [**OpenStack**](#openstack-2)
    - [**Scheduling**](#scheduling-2)
      - [**Hardware Accelerators**](#hardware-accelerators-1)
      - [**Other**](#other-6)
    - [**Storage**](#storage-3)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.9.0-beta.2](#v190-beta2)
  - [Downloads for v1.9.0-beta.2](#downloads-for-v190-beta2)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-12)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-12)

  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-11)
    - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
    - [Not Very Notable (that is, non-user-facing)](#not-very-notable-that-is-non-user-facing)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.12.0-rc.2](#v1120-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.12.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1120-rc2)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-11)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-11)

- The built-in system:csi-external-provisioner and system:csi-external-attacher cluster roles are removed as of 1.17 release ([#84282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84282), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

    - [SIG Scheduling](#sig-scheduling-1)
    - [SIG Storage](#sig-storage-1)
    - [SIG vSphere](#sig-vsphere)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
    - [Additional changes](#additional-changes)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
  - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [General Fixes and Reliability](#general-fixes-and-reliability)
  - [Non-user-facing changes](#non-user-facing-changes)
- [v1.11.0-rc.3](#v1110-rc3)

- Option `preConfiguredBackendPoolLoadBalancerTypes` is added to azure cloud provider for the pre-configured load balancers, possible values: `""`, `"internal"`, `"external"`,`"all"` ([#86338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86338), [@gossion](https://github.com/gossion)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Fix setup of configmap/secret/projected/downwardapi volumes ([#64855](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64855), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Added default ClusterRoles for external CSI components csi-external-provisioner and csi-external-attacher ([#65073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65073), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

  1. For volumes provisioned/deleted via external provisioner/deleter, `storage_operation_duration_seconds` will NOT wait for the external operation to be done before reporting latency metric (effectively close to 0). This will be fixed by using `volume_operation_total_seconds` instead