- The in-tree cloud provider for vSphere has been deprecated and removed. Users are advised to utilize the external cloud provider and CSI driver available at https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere. ([#122937](https://...

* New federation deployment mechanism now allows non-GCP clusters. ([#34620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34620), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))
     * Writes the federation kubeconfig to the local kubeconfig file.



# v1.4.2

[Documentation](http://kubernetes.github.io) & [Examples](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.4/examples)

## Downloads

* Allow missing keys in templates by default ([#39486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39486), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))
* Fix kubectl get -f <file> -o <nondefault printer> so it prints all items in the file ([#39038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39038), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))