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....

- 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

    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-7)
  - [Changelog since v1.21.6](#changelog-since-v1216)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-6)
    - [Feature](#feature-4)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-6)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-7)
    - [Added](#added-7)
    - [Changed](#changed-7)
    - [Removed](#removed-7)
- [v1.21.6](#v1216)

* - 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))

- E2e.test: removed the  `--viper-config` flag. If you were previously using this to pass flags to `e2e.test` via a file, you will need to pass them directly on the command line, e.g. `e2e.test --e2e-output-dir`. ([#102598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102598), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Replaced deprecated package `k8s.io/utils/pointer` with `k8s.io/utils/ptr` for ./test/e2e and ./test/utils. ([#132763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132763), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs)) [SIG Autoscaling and Testing]

* test/e2e/e2e.test: ([#69105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69105), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
   * -viper-config can be used to set also the options defined by command line flags
   * the default config file is "e2e.yaml/toml/json/..." and the test starts when no such config is found (as before) but if -viper-config is used, the config file must exist

- 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

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....