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* rkt version 1.23.0+

    * known issues with the rkt runtime are [listed in the Getting Started Guide](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes/)

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)

### Other notable changes

* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#69618](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69618), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

  linking directly to the master branch. This ensures that links reference a
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#### Rkt runtime Known Issues

- A detailed list of known issues can be found [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.github.io/blob/release-1.3/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes.md)

*More Instructions coming soon*

## Provider-specific Notes

* AWS
  * Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul)
  * Allow cross-region image pulling with ECR

* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#69135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69135), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Enforce Disk based pod eviction with GCI base image in Kubelet ([#33520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33520), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))
* Fix nil pointer issue when getting metrics from volume mounter ([#34251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34251), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

* Avoid creating new controller revisions for statefulsets when cache is stale ([#67039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67039), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kubelet: Fix kubelet from panic after getting the wrong signal ([#98200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98200), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Kubelet: Fix repeatedly acquiring the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]