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* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

### 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.

</p>

<h2 id="Notation">Notation</h2>
<p>
The syntax is specified using a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth_syntax_notation">variant</a>
of Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF):
</p>

<pre class="grammar">
Syntax      = { Production } .
Production  = production_name "=" [ Expression ] "." .
Expression  = Term { "|" Term } .
Term        = Factor { Factor } .

because it frontends equivalent mirrors in other clouds.  Please point your clusters to the new registry going forward. \n\nAdmission/Policy integrations that have an allowlist of registries need to include `registry.k8s.io` alongside `k8s.gcr.io`.\nAir-gapped environments and image garbage-collection configurations will need to update to pre-pull and preserve required images under `registry.k8s.io` as well as `k8s.gcr.io`. ([#109938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109938), [@dims]...