- **[beta]** [Taints and tolerations](https://kubernetes....

- Introducing new semantic for metric `volume_operation_total_seconds` to be the end to end latency of volume provisioning/deletion. Existing metric "storage_operation_duration_seconds" will remain untouched, however it is exposed to the following potential...

(liveness & readiness) probes using an HTTPGetAction will no longer follow redirects to different hostnames from the original probe request. Instead, these non-local redirects will be treated as a Success (the documented behavior). In this case an event with reason "ProbeWarning" will be generated, indicating that the redirect was ignored. If you were previously relying on the redirect to run health checks against different endpoints, you will need to perform the healthcheck logic outside the Kubelet,...

* action required: Deprecate the kubelet's cadvisor port. The default will change to 0 (disabled) in 1.12, and the cadvisor port will be removed entirely in 1.13. ([#59827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59827), [@dashpole](https...

    * this enables the default scheduler to bind the Pod to the target host. If node affinity
    * of DaemonSet Pod already exists, it will be replaced.
    * DaemonSet controller will only perform these operations when creating DaemonSet Pods;
    * and those operations will only modify the Pods of DaemonSet, no changes are made to the
    * `.spec.template` of DaemonSet.

## Changelog since v1.12.7

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- GCE Internal LoadBalancer sync loop will now release the ILB IP address upon sync failure. An error in ILB forwarding rule creation will no longer leak IP addresses. ([#97740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97740), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

## Dependencies

#### kubelet:

- Pods will now post their readiness during termination. ([#110416](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110416), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]

- The `/debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_requests` path at an apiserver will no longer return a phantom line for each exempt priority level. ([#93406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93406), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery]