Merge pull request #2615 from qpetraroia/releaseNotes_28thOct2021

release notes Oct 28th 2021

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Azure Kubernetes Service Changelog
 
+## Release 2021-10-28
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+This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-11-04 for public cloud and 2021-11-11 for sovereign clouds.
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+### Announcement
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+* AKS is implementing auto-cert rotation slowly over the next few months. We have already enabled the following regions westcentralus, uksouth, eastus, australiacentral, and australiaest. If you have clusters in those regions please run a cluster upgrade in order to have that cluster configured for auto-cert rotation. The following regions brazilsouth, canadacentral, centralindia, and eastasia will be released in January after the holidays as the next group of regions. We will update the release notes will the upcoming schedule going forward until all regions are deployed.
+* Konnectivity - a new version of the AKS tunnel component will replace the aks-link and tunnel-front versions slowly over the rest of the calendar year. The following regions westcentralus, uksouth, uaenorth already have Konnectivity enabled.
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+### Release Notes
+
+* Preview Features
+  * Node pool start/stop is now in [preview](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/aks/start-stop-nodepools).
+  * Node pool snapshots are now supported. Please check the AKS documentation at 5pm Pacific on 11/02/2021 to read more.
+* Bug Fixes
+  * added missing `managed-csi` storage class in AKS Kubernetes versions 1.21+.
+  * Fixed a bug with the cluster autoscaler nodepool balancing due to a new agentpool label being added "kubernetes.azure.com/agentpool"
+  * User manipulation or usage of the system-reserved label prefix "kubernetes.azure.com" is now correctly blocked.
+* Component Updates
+  * Updated CSI Disk Driver to v1.8. and File Driver to 1.7.
+  * Updated omsagent to [ciprod10132021 and win-ciprod10132021](https://github.com/microsoft/Docker-Provider/blob/ci_dev/ReleaseNotes.md#10132021--).
+  * Updated Azure CNI to v1.4.13 for Windows.
+  * AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to [AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.10.23](vhd-notes/aks-ubuntu/AKSUbuntu-1804/2021.10.23.txt) - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
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 ## Release 2021-10-15
 
 This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-10-21 for public cloud and 2021-10-28 for sovereign clouds.
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   * AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to [AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.10.13](vhd-notes/aks-ubuntu/AKSUbuntu-1804/2021.10.13.txt) - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
   * AKS Windows image has been updated to the 10B patch version including KB5004335, KB5004424, KB5006672 & KB5005701 [2019-datacenter-core-smalldisk-17763.2237.211014](vhd-notes/AKSWindows/2019/17763.2237.211014.txt) - please refer to the link for component versions in this VHD.
 
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 ## Release 2021-10-08
 
 This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-10-14 for public cloud and 2021-10-21 for sovereign clouds. 
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 * Component Updates
   * AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to [AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.10.02](vhd-notes/aks-ubuntu/AKSUbuntu-1804/2021.10.02.txt) - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
 
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 ## Release 2021-09-30
 
 This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-10-07 for public cloud and 2021-10-14 for sovereign clouds.
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   * AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to [AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.09.25](vhd-notes/aks-ubuntu/AKSUbuntu-1804/2021.09.25.txt) - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
   * AKS Windows image has been updated to the 9C patch version [2019-datacenter-core-smalldisk-17763.2213.210922](vhd-notes/AKSWindows/2019/17763.2213.210922.txt) - please refer to the link for component versions in this VHD.
 
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 ## Release 2021-09-16
 
 This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-09-23 for public cloud and 2021-09-30 for sovereign clouds.