</p>

<pre class="ebnf">
ShortVarDecl = IdentifierList ":=" ExpressionList .
</pre>

<p>
It is shorthand for a regular <a href="#Variable_declarations">variable declaration</a>
with initializer expressions but no types:
</p>

<pre class="grammar">
"var" IdentifierList "=" ExpressionList .
</pre>

<pre>
i, j := 0, 10
f := func() int { return 7 }

For more information, see [#53288](https://issue.k8s.io/53288).

* `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` invocations on newly installed systems can encounter a `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks that prevents setup. If this is the only pre-flight failure, it can be safely ignored with `--skip-preflight-checks`.

For more information, see [#53356](https://issue.k8s.io/53356#issuecomment-333748618).

  have been validated.
* The following deprecated kubelet flags are removed: `--config`, `--auth-path`,
  `--resource-container`, `--system-container`, `--reconcile-cidr`
* Remove the temporary fix for pre-1.0 mirror pods. Upgrade directly from
  pre-1.0 to 1.6 kubelet is not supported.
* Fluentd was migrated to Daemon Set, which targets nodes with
  beta.kubernetes.io/fluentd-ds-ready=true label. If you use fluentd in your

### Introducing Windows CSI support alpha for Kubernetes

With the release of Kubernetes 1.18, an alpha version of CSI Proxy for Windows is getting released. CSI proxy enables non-privileged (pre-approved) containers to perform privileged storage operations on Windows. CSI drivers can now be supported in Windows by leveraging CSI proxy.
SIG Storage made a lot of progress in the 1.18 release.

* GCP:

  * Bump GLBC version to 0.9.5 - fixes [loss of manually modified GCLB health check settings](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47559) upon upgrade from pre-1.6.4 to either 1.6.4 or 1.6.5. ([#47567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47567), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Feature gates CSIMigration to Beta (on by default) and CSIMigrationGCE to Beta (off by default since it requires installation of the GCE PD CSI Driver) ([#85231](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85231),...

* Bump ip-masq-agent to v2.1.1 ([#67916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67916), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the pre-injected masquerade rules.

- Fixes a 1.34+ regression in ipvs and winkernel kube-proxy backends; these are now reverted back to their
  pre-1.34 behavior of regularly rechecking all of their rules even when no

    * - Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * - Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the
    * pre-injected masquerade rules.

- kubeadm now can join the cluster with pre-existing client certificate if provided ([#66482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66482), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))