assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.beta", "1.BETA");
        assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.beta", "1.Beta");

        assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.milestone", "1.MILESTONE");
        assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.milestone", "1.Milestone");

        assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.rc", "1.RC");
        assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.rc", "1.Rc");
        assertOrder(X_EQ_Y, "1.cr", "1.CR");

        checkVersionsEqual("1.0.0x", "1-x");
        checkVersionsEqual("1cr", "1rc");

        // special "aliases" a, b and m for alpha, beta and milestone
        checkVersionsEqual("1a1", "1-alpha-1");
        checkVersionsEqual("1b2", "1-beta-2");
        checkVersionsEqual("1m3", "1-milestone-3");

        // case insensitive
        checkVersionsEqual("1X", "1x");
        checkVersionsEqual("1A", "1a");

                // a1 = alpha-1, b1 = beta-1, m1 = milestone-1
                switch (value.charAt(0)) {
                    case 'a':
                        value = "alpha";
                        break;
                    case 'b':
                        value = "beta";
                        break;
                    case 'm':
                        value = "milestone";
                        break;

exemptLabels:
  - "security"
  - "pending discussion"
  - "do-not-close"

# Set to true to ignore issues in a project (defaults to false)
exemptProjects: false

# Set to true to ignore issues in a milestone (defaults to false)
exemptMilestones: false

# Set to true to ignore issues with an assignee (defaults to false)
exemptAssignees: false

# Label to use when marking as stale
staleLabel: stale

_2015-03-16_

 *  **HTTP/2 support.** We've done interop testing and haven't seen any
    problems. HTTP/2 support has been a big effort and we're particularly
    thankful to Adrian Cole who has helped us to reach this milestone.

 *  **RC4 cipher suites are no longer supported by default.** To connect to
    old, obsolete servers relying on these cipher suites, you must create a
    custom `ConnectionSpec`.

* Updating federation up scripts to work in non e2e setup ([#27260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27260), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* version bump for gci to milestone 53 ([#27210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27210), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))

[kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz](https://dl.k8s.io/v1.7.0/kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz) | `4b84b0025aff1d4406f3e5cd5fa86940f594e3ec6e1d12d3ce1eea5f5b3fc55d`

## **Major Themes**

Kubernetes 1.7 is a milestone release that adds security, stateful application, and extensibility features motivated by widespread production use of Kubernetes.

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