### SIG Azure

For 1.13 SIG Azure was focused on adding additional Azure Disk support for Ultra SSD, Standard SSD, and Premium Azure Files. Azure Availability Zones and cross resource group nodes were also moved from Alpha to Beta in 1.13.

### SIG Big Data

- Updates docs and guidance on cloud provider InstancesV2 and Zones interface for external cloud providers:
  - removes experimental warning for InstancesV2
  - document that implementation of InstancesV2 will disable calls to Zones

# v1.5.5

This release contains a fix for a PodSecurityPolicy vulnerability which allows users to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object, even ones they are not authorized to use.

Other then that, this release contains no other changes from 1.5.4.

The vulnerability is tracked in http://issue.k8s.io/43459.

**Who is affected?**

- EndpointSlice controller waits longer to retry failed sync. ([#89438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89438), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Extend AWS azToRegion method to support Local Zones ([#90874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90874), [@Jeffwan](https://github.com/Jeffwan)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixed bug with leads to Node goes `Not-ready` state when credentials for vCenter stored in a secret and Zones feature is in use. Zone labels setup moved to KCM component, kubelet skips this step during startup in such case. If credentials stored in cloud-provider config file as plaintext current behaviour does not change and no action required. For proper...

### Feature

- Extend AWS azToRegion method to support Local Zones ([#90874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90874), [@Jeffwan](https://github.com/Jeffwan)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

### etcd moves to version 3.5.0

  - [alpha] ingress has alpha support for a single master multi zone cluster ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/ingress.md#failing-across-availability-zones)) ([kubernetes/features#52](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/52))
- **Network**

### VMware

- SAML token delegation (required for Zones support in vSphere) is now supported ([#78876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78876), [@dougm](https://github.com/dougm))
- vSphere SAML token auth is now supported when using Zones ([#75515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75515), [@dougm](https://github.com/dougm))

### Windows

* Support shared tag `kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterid>` ([#41695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41695), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Do not consider master instance zones for dynamic volume creation ([#41702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41702), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))