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 would be ci-cross/latest....

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 would be ci-cross/latest....

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 would be ci-cross/latest....

* - kubeadm now supports "ci/latest-1.8" or "ci-cross/latest-1.8" and similar labels. ([#49119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49119), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- The deprecated mondo `kubernetes-test` tarball is no longer built. Users running Kubernetes e2e tests should use the `kubernetes-test-portable` and `kubernetes-test-{OS}-{ARCH}` tarballs instead. ([#83093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83093), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))

### Scheduling

* Fix VMSS LoadBalancer backend pools so that the network won't be broken when instances are upgraded to latest model ([#81411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81411), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

[@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle, SIG Release, and SIG Testing

- Split up the mondo `kubernetes-test` tarball into `kubernetes-test-portable` and `kubernetes-test-{OS}-{ARCH}` tarballs. ([#74065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74065), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))

### VMware

    - [Server binaries](#server-binaries-3)
    - [Node binaries](#node-binaries-3)
  - [Changelog since v1.18.16](#changelog-since-v11816)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-3)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-3)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-3)
    - [Added](#added-3)
    - [Changed](#changed-3)
    - [Removed](#removed-3)
- [v1.18.16](#v11816)

- When using the conformance test image, a new environment variable `E2E_USE_GO_RUNNER` will cause the tests to be run with the new golang-based test runner rather than the current bash wrapper. ([#79284](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79284), [@johnSchnake](https://github.com/johnSchnake))