the host system. - `mc admin update` is not supported and should be avoided in kubernetes/container environments, please upgrade containers by upgrading relevant container images. - **We do not recommend upgrading one MinIO server at a time, the product is designed to support parallel upgrades please follow our recommended guidelines.** ## Explore Further - [MinIO Erasure Code Overview](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/erasure-coding.html) - [Use `mc` with MinIO Server](https:...

- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests. ([#102665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102665), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Changed buildmode of non static Kubernetes binaries to produce position independent executables (PIE). ([#102323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102323), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

Due to a [tagging bug in our Release Engineering tooling](https://github.com/kubernetes/release/issues/1080) during `v1.18.0-alpha.3`, we needed to push a manual tag (`v1.18.0-alpha.4`).

**No binaries have been produced or will be provided for `v1.18.0-alpha.4`.**

The changelog for `v1.18.0-alpha.4` is included as part of the [changelog since v1.18.0-alpha.3][#changelog-since-v1180-alpha3] section.

# v1.18.0-alpha.3

 - Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#90241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90241), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

		DeleteReplication: drs,
		Versioned:         globalBucketVersioningSys.PrefixEnabled(bucket, dobj.ObjectName),
		// Objects matching prefixes should not leave delete markers,
		// dramatically reduces namespace pollution while keeping the
		// benefits of replication, make sure to apply version suspension
		// only at bucket level instead.
		VersionSuspended: globalBucketVersioningSys.Suspended(bucket),
	})

  can also be scheduled to nodes with `GA` labels. ([#118923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118923), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- Updated the generic apiserver library to produce an error if a new API server is configured with support for a data format other than JSON, YAML, or Protobuf. ([#121325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121325), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kubelet: make the image pull time more accurate in event ([#114430](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114430), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]
- [aws] Fixed a bug which reduces the number of unnecessary calls to STS in the event of assume role failures in the legacy cloud provider ([#110706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110706), [@prateekgogia](https://github.com/prateekgogia)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* The dynamic Kubelet config feature will now update the config in the event of a ConfigMap mutation, which reduces the chance for silent config skew. Only name, namespace, and kubeletConfigKey may now be set in `Node.Spec.ConfigSource.ConfigMap`. The least disruptive pattern for config management is still to create a new ConfigMap and incrementally roll out a...

- The `gcp` and `azure` auth plugins have been removed from client-go and kubectl. See https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin and https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke ([#110013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110013), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- The `gcp` and `azure` auth plugins have been removed from `client-go` and `kubectl`. See [kubelogin](https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin) and [Kubectl Auth Changes in GKE](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke) for details about the cloud-specific replacements. ([#112341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112341), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

### API Change