* A new field hostAliases has been added to the pod spec to support [adding entries to a Pod's /etc/hosts file](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/add-entries-to-pod-etc-hosts-with-host-aliases/). ([#44641](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44641), [@rickypai](https://github.com/rickypai))

- Added warning for dup ports update/patching in pod's container ports and service ports. ([#113245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113245), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Fix instance not found issues when an Azure Node is recreated in a short time ([#93316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93316), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Eliminated work when creating Services or understanding port purposes, especially for external resources deployed via Helm charts. ([#133018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133018), [@rushmash91](https://github.com/rushmash91))

- The `apiserver_request_total` metric is promoted to stable status and no longer has a content-type dimensions, so any alerts/charts which presume the existence of this will fail. This is however, unlikely to be the case since it was effectively an unbounded dimension in the first place. ([#99788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99788), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))...

- The new test `[sig-network] DNS should now provide /etc/hosts entries for the cluster [LinuxOnly] [Conformance]` will validate the host entries set in the ``/etc/hosts`` file (pod's FQDN and hostname), which should be managed by Kubelet. ([#72729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72729), [@bclau](https://github.com/bclau))

- Added CEL runtime cost calculation into ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, matching the evaluation cost
  restrictions that already apply to CustomResourceDefinition.
  If rule evaluation uses more compute than the limit, the API server aborts the evaluation and the
  admission check that was being performed is aborted; the `failurePolicy` for the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy

* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.

- Kube-proxy health check ports used to listen to `:<port>` for each of the services. This is not needed and opens ports in addresses the cluster user may not have intended. The PR limits listening to all node address which are controlled by `--nodeport-addresses` flag. if no addresses are provided then we default to existing...

* falls back to parse Docker runtime version as generic if not semver ([#54040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54040), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* BUG FIX: Check both name and ports for azure health probes ([#56918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56918), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))



# v1.8.5