### Structured Logging in Kubelet

Other notable changes include:
* CoreDNS replaces kube-dns as the default DNS provider
* Improved user experience for environments without a public internet connection and users using other CRI runtimes than Docker
* Support for structured configuration for the kubelet, which avoids the need to modify the systemd drop-in file
* Many improvements to the upgrade process and other bug fixes

### SIG Instrumentation

- Structured logging of NamespacedName was inconsistent with klog.KObj. Now both use lower case field names and namespace is optional. ([#117238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117238), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture...

### CLI

* Use structured generator for kubectl autoscale.  ([#55913](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55913), [@wackxu](https://github.com/wackxu))

- Kube-proxy: added `--logging-format` flag to support structured logging. ([#117800](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117800), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

- Kubeadm: enhance certs check-expiration to show the expiration info of related CAs ([#83932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83932), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- Kubeadm: implemented structured output of 'kubeadm token list' in JSON, YAML, Go template and JsonPath formats ([#78764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78764), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v3: v3.0.0 → v3.0.1

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._



# v1.18.18


## Downloads for v1.18.18

### Source Code

filename | sha512 hash

* This change add nonResourceURL to kubectl auth cani ([#46432](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46432), [@CaoShuFeng](https://github.com/CaoShuFeng))
* Webhook added to the API server which omits structured audit log events. ([#45919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45919), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

It is likely that `v1alpha2` will be removed in one of the future Kubernetes releases to be able to develop `v1`.

### Structured logging graduate to Beta

Structured logging reached its Beta milestone. Most log messages from kubelet and kube-scheduler have been converted. Users are encouraged to try out JSON output or parsing of the structured text format and provide feedback on possible solutions for the open issues, such as handling of multi-line strings in log values.

- Migrate `proxy/ipvs/proxier.go` logs to structured logging. ([#97796](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97796), [@JornShen](https://github.com/JornShen))
- Migrate `staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry` logs to structured logging. ([#98287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98287), [@lala123912](https://github.com/lala123912))