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....

pkg testing/fstest, type MapFS map[string]*MapFile
pkg testing/fstest, type MapFile struct
pkg testing/fstest, type MapFile struct, Data []uint8
pkg testing/fstest, type MapFile struct, ModTime time.Time
pkg testing/fstest, type MapFile struct, Mode fs.FileMode
pkg testing/fstest, type MapFile struct, Sys interface{}
pkg testing/iotest, func ErrReader(error) io.Reader
pkg testing/iotest, func TestReader(io.Reader, []uint8) error

* - 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))

* 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))

* [action required] The `MasterConfiguration` kind in the kubeadm v1alpha2 API has been renamed `InitConfiguration`...

  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-15)
    - [Deprecation](#deprecation)
    - [API Change](#api-change-4)
    - [Feature](#feature-11)
    - [Documentation](#documentation)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-12)
    - [Other (Cleanup or Flake)](#other-cleanup-or-flake-5)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-15)
    - [Added](#added-15)
    - [Changed](#changed-15)

- Increase timeout for pod lifecycle test to reach pod status=ready ([#96691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96691), [@hh](https://github.com/hh))
- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. ([#98753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98753), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

- 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))

  - [Changelog since v1.23.6](#changelog-since-v1236)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-10)
    - [API Change](#api-change-2)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-10)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-10)
    - [Added](#added-10)
    - [Changed](#changed-10)
    - [Removed](#removed-10)
- [v1.23.6](#v1236)

* 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