- Hyperkube will now be available in a new Github repository and will not be included in the kubernetes release from 1.17 onwards ([#83454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83454), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

### 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.

        * Switch to the official image of Kibana in fluentd-elasticsearch addon
        * Use StatefulSet for Elasticsearch instead of ReplicationController, with persistent volume claims
        * Require authenticating towards Elasticsearch, as Elasticsearch 5.5 by default requires basic authentication

= vendor/github.com/x448/float16 licensed under: =

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Montgomery Edwards⁴⁴⁸ and Faye Amacker

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

## Known Issues

### `TopologyAwareHints` feature falls back to default behavior

- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

  by default. The CSI drivers can make use of the `secretRef` values passed in `NodeExpansion`
  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- Fixed a bug in block volume expansion. ([#77317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77317), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Count PVCs that are unbound towards attach limit. ([#73863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73863), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

### VMware

## Changelog since v1.23.0

## Major Themes

### Dockershim Removed from kubelet

After its deprecation in v1.20, the dockershim component has been removed from the kubelet.
From v1.24 onwards, you will need to either use one of the other [supported runtimes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/container-runtimes/) (such as containerd or CRI-O)

### Avoiding permanent beta