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### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.
- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

* StorageObjectInUseProtection is now GA ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/498)) and ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/499))

#### Graduated to Beta

* Supporting out-of-tree/external cloud providers is now considered beta ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/88))

# Release 2.1.0

TensorFlow 2.1 will be the last TF release supporting Python 2. Python 2 support
[officially ends an January 1, 2020](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#update).
[As announced earlier](https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/d/msg/announce/gVwS5RC8mds/dCt1ka2XAAAJ),
TensorFlow will also stop supporting Python 2 starting January 1, 2020, and no
more releases are expected in 2019.

And with this, support for **Pydantic v1 is now deprecated** and will be **removed** from FastAPI in a future version soon.

**Note**: have in mind that the Pydantic team already stopped supporting Pydantic v1 for recent versions of Python, starting with Python 3.14.

- Azure disks of shared kind will no longer fail if they do not contain `skuname` or `storageaccounttype`. ([#80837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80837), [@rmweir](https://github.com/rmweir))
- Fix CSI plugin supporting raw block that does not need attach mounted failed ([#79920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79920), [@cwdsuzhou](https://github.com/cwdsuzhou))

* Pass-through volume MountOptions to global mount (NodeStageVolume) on the node for CSI ([#80191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80191), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))
* Bugfix: csi plugin supporting raw block that does not need attach mounted failed ([#79920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79920), [@cwdsuzhou](https://github.com/cwdsuzhou))

  
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