* Reduces GCE PD Node Attach Limits by 1 since the node boot disk is considered an attachable disk ([#80923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80923), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))



# v1.14.5

 - 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]

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

- 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))

- 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 `DeclarativeValidationTakeover` feature gate remains disabled by default.  While disabled, validation errors produced by hand written validation are always return to the caller.  To switch to declarative validation is primary source of errors for migrated fields, enable this feature gate. ([#130728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130728), [@jpbet...

    public static final String LABELS_development_mode_warning = "{labels.development_mode_warning}";

    /** The key of the message: The system you are using is no longer supported. Please refer to the product support lifecycle page and upgrade. */
    public static final String LABELS_eol_error = "{labels.eol_error}";

    /** The key of the message: Search Screen */

* Transition service account controller clients to TokenRequest API ([#72179](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72179), [@WanLinghao](https://github.com/WanLinghao))
* kubeadm: reimplemented IPVS Proxy check that produced confusing warning message. ([#75036](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75036), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

## Changelog since v1.19.0

## What's New (Major Themes)

### Dockershim deprecation

Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated. Docker-produced images will continue to work in your cluster with all runtimes, as they always have.

- 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]