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....

### Internal

* 🔧 Configure strict pytest options and update/refactor tests. Upgrade pytest to `>=6.2.4,<7.0.0` and pytest-cov to `>=2.12.0,<3.0.0`. Initial PR [#2790](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2790) by [@graingert](https://github.com/graingert).

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))

  optional PodDNSConfig dnsConfig = 26;

  // If specified, all readiness gates will be evaluated for pod readiness.
  // A pod is ready when all its containers are ready AND
  // all conditions specified in the readiness gates have status equal to "True"
  // More info: https://git.k8s.io/enhancements/keps/sig-network/580-pod-readiness-gates
  // +optional
  repeated PodReadinessGate readinessGates = 28;

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....

- 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