The Cluster API effort is currently undergoing a complete rehaul of the existing codebase, moving off Terraform and into using govmomi directly.

### SIG-windows

SIG Windows focused on stability and reliability of our existing feature set. We primarily fixed bugs as we march towards a near future stable release.

## Action Required

- etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13.

## What’s New (Major Themes)

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha.

The main themes of this release are:

## Changelog since v1.35.0-alpha.1

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- FailCgroupV1 will be set to true from 1.35. 
  This means that nodes will not start on a cgroup v1 in our default behavior. 
  This is putting cgroup v1 into a deprecated state. ([#134298](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134298), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92)) [SIG Node]

- Kubernetes...

# v1.18.0-alpha.4

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Important note about manual tag

Due to a [tagging bug in our Release Engineering tooling](https://github.com/kubernetes/release/issues/1080) during `v1.18.0-alpha.3`, we needed to push a manual tag (`v1.18.0-alpha.4`).

### SIG OpenStack

SIG-OpenStack continued to build out testing, with eleven acceptance tests covering a wide-range of scenarios and use-cases. During the 1.11 cycle our reporting back to test-grid has qualified the OpenStack cloud provider as a gating job for the Kubernetes release.