### Other notable changes

* StatefulSet: Set hostname/subdomain fields on new Pods in addition to the deprecated annotations, to allow mitigation of Pod DNS issues upon upgrading to Kubernetes v1.7.x. ([#50942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50942), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))
* Azure: Allow VNet to be in a separate Resource Group. ([#49725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49725), [@sylr](https://github.com/sylr))

* hollow-node do not use remote CRI anymore ([#86425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86425), [@jkaniuk](https://github.com/jkaniuk))
* hollow-node use fake CRI ([#85879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85879), [@gongguan](https://github.com/gongguan))



# v1.18.0-alpha.1

## Changelog since v1.8.1

### Other notable changes

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Allow standard flags in client-gen. ([#53999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53999), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

    * ACTION REQUIRED: The deprecated Kubelet flag `--allow-privileged` has been removed. Remove any use of `--allow-privileged` from your kubelet scripts or manifests.

  * Allow configuration of a single security group for ELBs ([#45500](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45500), [@nbutton23](https://github.com/nbutton23))

  * Remove check that forces loadBalancerSourceRanges to be 0.0.0.0/0. ([#38636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38636), [@dhawal55](https://github.com/dhawal55))

### Fixes

* 🐛 Allow exit code for dependencies with `yield` to always execute, by removing capacity limiter for them, to e.g. allow closing DB connections without deadlocks. PR [#5122](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5122) by [@adriangb](https://github.com/adriangb).

- Switched intstr.Type to sized integer to follow API guidelines and improve compatibility with proto libraries ([#83956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83956), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * configuration scripts to allow configuration of signing duration of
    * certificates issued via the Certificate Signing Request API.

- Added --authorization-always-allow-paths to components doing delegated authorization to exclude certain HTTP paths like /healthz from authorization. ([#67543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67543), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Kubectl: Previously users cannot provide arguments to a external diff tool via KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF env. This release now allow users to specify args to KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF env. ([#95292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95292), [@dougsland](https://github.com/dougsland)) [SIG CLI]