* - Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * - Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the
    * pre-injected masquerade rules.

    * - Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * - Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the
    * pre-injected masquerade rules.
* Fix VMWare VM freezing bug by reverting [#51066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51066) ([#67825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67825), [@nikopen](https://github.com/nikopen))

- Kubeadm: perform pre-flight validation on host/node name upon `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join`, showing warnings on non-compliant names ([#99194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99194), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

For more information, see [#53288](https://issue.k8s.io/53288).

* `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` invocations on newly installed systems can encounter a `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks that prevents setup. If this is the only pre-flight failure, it can be safely ignored with `--skip-preflight-checks`.

For more information, see [#53356](https://issue.k8s.io/53356#issuecomment-333748618).

- kubeadm now can join the cluster with pre-existing client certificate if provided ([#66482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66482), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

### Introducing Windows CSI support alpha for Kubernetes

With the release of Kubernetes 1.18, an alpha version of CSI Proxy for Windows is getting released. CSI proxy enables non-privileged (pre-approved) containers to perform privileged storage operations on Windows. CSI drivers can now be supported in Windows by leveraging CSI proxy.
SIG Storage made a lot of progress in the 1.18 release.

- Feature gates CSIMigration to Beta (on by default) and CSIMigrationGCE to Beta (off by default since it requires installation of the GCE PD CSI Driver) ([#85231](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85231),...

- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back
  to its pre-1.27 behavior of tracking the total number of iptables rules that
  kube-proxy is responsible for, rather than only counting the number of rules
  that it re-synced on the last sync. The new `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_last`

  have been validated.
* The following deprecated kubelet flags are removed: `--config`, `--auth-path`,
  `--resource-container`, `--system-container`, `--reconcile-cidr`
* Remove the temporary fix for pre-1.0 mirror pods. Upgrade directly from
  pre-1.0 to 1.6 kubelet is not supported.
* Fluentd was migrated to Daemon Set, which targets nodes with
  beta.kubernetes.io/fluentd-ds-ready=true label. If you use fluentd in your

* Add SSH_OPTS to config ssh and scp port ([#28872](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28872), [@lojies](https://github.com/lojies))
* kube-up: install new Docker pre-requisite (libltdl7) when not in image ([#28745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28745), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))