Release 2021-09-02

Release 2021-09-02

This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-09-09 for public cloud and 2021-09-18 for sovereign clouds.

Announcement

• In order to preserve any deallocated VMs, you must to set Scale-down Mode to Deallocate. That includes VMs that have been deallocated using IaaS APIs (Virtual Machine Scale Set APIs). Setting Scale-down Mode to Delete will remove any deallocate VMs.

Release Notes

• Features

  • Scale-down mode is now in public preview
  • Custom Azure Policy is now in public preview

• Component Updates

  • Update Windows Azure CNI version to v1.4.9. - Azure CNI start time shortened by 500ms
  • Support azure file snapshot for Kubernetes 1.21
  • csi-snapshotter has been updated to v4.2.1 for Kubernetes 1.21
  • AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.08.31 - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.

• Bug Fixes

  • NPM updated to 1.4.9, fixing Azure/azure-container-networking#851