Merge pull request #4424 from qpetraroia/release-notes-july-16-2024

release notes july 16th 2024

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Azure Kubernetes Service Changelog
 
+## Release 2024-07-16
+
+Monitor the release status by regions at [AKS-Release-Tracker](https://releases.aks.azure.com/). This release is titled as v20240716.
+
+### Announcements
+
+* 1.30 is the next LTS version after 1.27. Upgrade from 1.27 LTS to 1.30 LTS will be possible starting August 2024. More information about AKS LTS is available [here](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/long-term-support).
+* 1.27 community supported has ended. To exit [Long-Term Support (LTS)](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/long-term-support) upgrade to 1.28 and disable LTS with the `az aks upgrade` command.
+* A new tutorial has been released on how to [securely scale your applications using the KEDA add-on and workload identity](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/keda-workload-identity).
+
+### Release Notes
+
+* Features:
+  * AKS version 1.30 is now GA.
+  * AKS patch versions 1.30.2, 1.30.1, 1.29.6, 1.28.11, 1.27.15, are now available. Refer to [version support policy](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#kubernetes-version-support-policy) and [upgrading a cluster](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/upgrade-aks-cluster?tabs=azure-cli) for more information.
+  * [Istio add-on for AKS](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/istio-about) now supports EnvoyFilter of the type Lua `(type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.lua.v3.Lua)`. While this `EnvoyFilter` is allowed, any issue arising from the Lua script itself is not supported. Other `EnvoyFilter` types currently remain blocked.
+  * The ability to migrate your existing Ubuntu node pools to Azure Linux by changing the [OS SKU of the node pool](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-linux/tutorial-azure-linux-migration?tabs=azure-cli#in-place-os-sku-migration-preview) is now GA.
+
+* Preview features:
+  * CNI Overlay dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6) is now available on Windows Agent Pools.
+  * Existing node pools can now be updated to enable or disable Federal Information Process Standard (FIPS). See [aka.ms/aks/updatefips](https://aka.ms/aks/updatefips) for more information.
+
+* Bug Fixes:
+  * Updated iptables rules in clusters with Azure Network Policy Manager to block pod access to wireserver.
+  * A bug regarding App Routing's [placeholderPod](https://github.com/Azure/aks-app-routing-operator/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#023-patch-1---2024-07-10) not properly cleaning up has been fixed.
+
+* Behavior Change:
+  * AKS Automatic clusters now use Azure Linux for Node Auto Provision dynamic nodes.
+
+* Component Updates:
+  * AKS has released new patches v1.29.5 and v1.30.4 for [Cluster Autoscaler](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler) to fix a bug which prevents scaling from zero of selected SKUs.
+  * coreDNS has been updated to use image v1.9.4-hotfix.20240704 to fix CVE vulnerabilities.
+  * [Istio add-on](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/istio-about) has been bumped to include v1.21.3-hotfix.20240626 and v1.22.1-hotfix.20240626 to fix [datadog tracer zero-day crash](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-8mq4-c2v5-3h39).
+  * [KEDA add-on](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/keda-about) has been updated to [v2.14.0](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.14.0) on AKS v1.30.
+  * AKS Ubuntu 22.04 image has been updated to [AKSUbuntu-202407.08.0](vhd-notes/aks-ubuntu/AKSUbuntu-2204/202407.08.0.txt).
+  * Azure Linux image has been updated to [AzureLinux-202407.08.0](vhd-notes/AzureLinux/202407.08.0.txt).
+
 ## Release 2024-06-27
 
 Monitor the release status by regions at [AKS-Release-Tracker](https://releases.aks.azure.com/). This release is titled as v20240627.