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 ## Release notes for kOps 1.21 series
 
-**⚠ kOps 1.21 has not been released yet! ⚠**
-
-This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.
-
 # Significant changes
 
 ## Service Account Issuer Discovery and AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
@@ -467,3 +463,23 @@ See the [warm pool](https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/instance_groups/#warmpool-aws-only)
 * Drop trailing slash from oidc issuer [@olemarkus](https://github.com/olemarkus) [#11682](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11682)
 * Update Go to v1.16.5 [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman) [#11686](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11686)
 * Add support for Docker v20.10.7 [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman) [#11674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11674)
+
+## 1.21.0-beta.3 to 1.21.0
+
+* Release 1.21.0-beta.3 [@johngmyers](https://github.com/johngmyers) [#11690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11690)
+* Fix set-version leaving backup files with "-e" suffix [@johngmyers](https://github.com/johngmyers) [#11692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11692)
+* Fix the CSI EBS DS CRB. [@olemarkus](https://github.com/olemarkus) [#11704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11704)
+* Add proxy envs to calico to make possible usage of AWS source [@DOboznyi](https://github.com/DOboznyi) [#11710](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11710)
+* Generate AWSEBSCSIDriver model only when using AWS [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman) [#11718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11718)
+* Use quay images for cilium [@olemarkus](https://github.com/olemarkus) [#11728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11728)
+* fix enable default SC when EBS driver is not installed [@olemarkus](https://github.com/olemarkus) [#11773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11773)
+* Compare OpenStack security groups deterministically
+* Make forwardToKubeDNS work in the NodeLocal DNSCache template [@ederst](https://github.com/ederst) [#11757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11757)
+* Bump the cas addon version. [@olemarkus](https://github.com/olemarkus) [#11781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11781)
+* Don't try to build etcd-manager secrets for cilium twice [@olemarkus](https://github.com/olemarkus) [#11792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11792)
+* Also set haveUserInfo=true in case --user was provided in [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock) [#11812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11812)
+* Handle containerExec hooks when using containerd [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman) [#11855](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11855)
+* bump the version of gophercloud [@cardoe](https://github.com/cardoe) [#11830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11830)
+* support large/slow downloads #11886: Set download timeout to 3 minutes [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea),[@hakman](https://github.com/hakman) [#11891](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11891)
+* Include GCP Project in terraform HCL2 output [@rifelpet](https://github.com/rifelpet) [#11902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11902)
+* Avoid spurious changes for ASG InstanceProtection and LT [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman) [#11882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/pull/11882)