v0.40.0 - 2019-08-23

Bug Fixes 🐞

• restore working calico networkPolicy vlabs conversion logic (#1855)
• add Standard_F8 to accelerated networking whitelist (#1858)
• ensure master role assignment happens after VM deployment (#1797)
• fix customVMTags functionality and add more unit tests (#1867)
• guard AKS scenarios against aks-engine SLB template definitions (#1872#1874)
• skip creating slb for hostedmaster (#1835)
• networkplugin conversion only if networkpolicy is empty (#1823)
• use azcopy-preview in VHD pipeline (#1821)
• metrics server cluster role (#1714)
• kube-proxy addon not critical, doesn't reconcile (#1814)
• set kubelet config for containerd in templates (#1785)
• race condition which causes concurrent map writes during tests (#1791)
• label scheduled-maintenance manifests for addon-manager (#1755)
• Remove public access from vhd storage container (#1802)
• address all cloud-init file waits (#1719)
• Change win-cni to win-bridge binaries and config (#643)
• document registry container image pull in VHD release notes (#1699)
• fix error message not displayed when binary not found (#1679)

Code Refactoring 💎

• configure kube-proxy 1.16 with a ConfigMap (#1862)
• simplify scale operation CLI output (#1345)

Code Style 🎶

• read without -r will mangle backslashes (#1790)

Continuous Integration 💜

• fix VHD release notes Azure DevOps log parsing (#1702)
• Windows VHD build pipeline (#1762)

Documentation 📘

• gofish updates are automated now for AKS Engine releases (#1818)
• fix the feature table (#1796)
• Add devigned as owner (#1784)
• increase master node count in Azure Stack template (#1767)
• dual-stack: Add prerequisites (#1692)

Features 🌈

• add support for Kubernetes 1.16.0-beta.1 (#1819)
• update cloud provider rate limit for vmas. (#1808)
• update Azure CNI and NetworkPolicy to v1.0.25 (#1774)
• update etcd default to v3.3.13 (#1772)
• Update to Docker EE 18.09.7 by default for Windows nodes (#1750)
• Update calico to v3.8.0 (#1636)
• autofill client Id and client secret for generate command (#1766)
• enable configurable cloudprovider ratelimits for write (#1783)
• enable AKS VHD image in Fairfax (#1770)
• enable smart cloudprovider rate limiting (#1693)
• Adding ephemeral disk support (#1651)

Maintenance 🔧

• rev VHD image references to 2019.08.21 (#1849)
• tolerate lowercase LB SKU vals (#1838)
• update go toolchain to 1.12.9 (#1789) (#1826)
• Change Windows default to Windows Server 2019 LTSC, July patch (#1722)
• use numeric address to avoid DNS reverse lookup (#1769)
• configure docker ExecStartPost config in file (#1727)
• use ACR URI to validate outbound connectivity (#1698)
• use k8s test infra archive for nssm.exe (#1697)

Testing 💚

• Added unit test for NormalizeMasterResourcesForScaling function (#1788)
• improve kubectl port-forward tests (#1775)
• make crashing pods test opt-in (debug only) (#1709)
• use /22 for agent pool subnet (#1701)

Please report any issues here: https://github.com/Azure/aks-engine/issues/new