diff --git a/releases/release-1.13/release-notes-draft.md b/releases/release-1.13/release-notes-draft.md
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--- a/releases/release-1.13/release-notes-draft.md
+++ b/releases/release-1.13/release-notes-draft.md
@@ -426,4 +426,34 @@ SIG Windows focused on improving reliability for Windows and Kubernetes support
 - Handle Windows named pipes in host mounts. ([#69484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69484), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))
 - Fixed inconsistency in windows kernel proxy when updating HNS policy. ([#68923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68923), [@delulu](https://github.com/delulu))
 
-
+##  External Dependencies
+
+- Default etcd server is unchanged at v3.2.24 since Kubernetes 1.12. ([#68318](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68318))
+- The list of validated docker versions remain unchanged at 1.11.1, 1.12.1, 1.13.1, 17.03, 17.06, 17.09, 18.06 since Kubernetes 1.12. ([#68495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68495))
+- The default Go version was updated to 1.11.2. ([#70665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70665))
+- The minimum supported Go version was updated to 1.11.2 ([#69386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69386))
+- CNI is unchanged at v0.6.0 since Kubernetes 1.10 ([#51250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51250))
+- CSI is updated to 1.0.0. Pre-1.0.0 API support is now deprecated. ([#71020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71020)])
+- The dashboard add-on has been updated to v1.10.0. ([#68450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68450))
+- Heapster remains at v1.6.0-beta, but is now retired in Kubernetes 1.13  ([#67074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67074))
+- Cluster Autoscaler has been upgraded to v1.13.0 ([#71513](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71513))
+- kube-dns is unchanged at v1.14.13 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#68900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68900))
+- Influxdb is unchanged at v1.3.3 since Kubernetes 1.10 ([#53319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53319))
+- Grafana is unchanged at v4.4.3 since Kubernetes 1.10 ([#53319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53319))
+- Kibana has been upgraded to v6.3.2.  ([#67582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67582))
+- CAdvisor has been updated to v0.32.0 ([#70964](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70964))
+- fluentd-gcp-scaler has been updated to v0.5.0 ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837))
+- Fluentd in fluentd-elasticsearch is unchanged at v1.2.4 since Kubernetes 1.11 ([#67434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67434))
+- fluentd-elasticsearch has been updated to v2.2.1 ([#68012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68012))
+- The fluent-plugin-kubernetes_metadata_filter plugin in fluentd-elasticsearch is unchanged at 2.0.0 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#67544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67544))
+- fluentd-gcp has been updated to v3.2.0 ([#70954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70954))
+- OIDC authentication is unchanged at coreos/go-oidc v2 since Kubernetes 1.10 ([#58544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58544))
+- Calico was updated to v3.3.1 ([#70932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70932))
+- Upgraded crictl on GCE to v1.12.0 ([#69033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69033))
+- CoreDNS has been updated to v1.2.6 ([#70799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70799))
+- event-exporter has been updated to v0.2.3 ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691))
+- Es-image remains unchanged at Elasticsearch 6.3.2 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#67484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67484))
+- metrics-server remains unchanged at v0.3.1 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#68746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68746))
+- GLBC remains unchanged at v1.2.3 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#66793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66793))
+- Ingress-gce remains unchanged at v1.2.3 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#66793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66793))
+- ip-masq-agen remains unchanged at v2.1.1 since Kubernetes 1.12 ([#67916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67916))