- [API Change](#api-change-6)
      - [New API types/versions:](#new-api-typesversions)
      - [New API fields:](#new-api-fields)
      - [Other API changes:](#other-api-changes)
      - [Configuration file changes:](#configuration-file-changes)
      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver-2)
      - [kube-scheduler:](#kube-scheduler-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy-1)

  - [Metrics Changes](#metrics-changes)
    - [Added metrics](#added-metrics)
    - [Deprecated/changed metrics](#deprecatedchanged-metrics)
  - [Notable Features](#notable-features)
    - [Stable](#stable)
    - [Beta](#beta)
    - [CLI Improvements](#cli-improvements)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)

      - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-15)
  - [Changes to Cluster Provisioning Scripts](#changes-to-cluster-provisioning-scripts)
    - [AWS](#aws-1)
    - [Juju](#juju)
    - [libvirt CoreOS](#libvirt-coreos)
    - [GCE](#gce-1)
    - [OpenStack](#openstack)
    - [Container Images](#container-images)
    - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-16)
  - [Changes to Addons](#changes-to-addons)

- Kubeadm: external etcd endpoints passed in the `ClusterConfiguration` that have Unicode characters are no longer IDNA encoded (converted to Punycode). They are now just URL encoded as per Go's implementation of RFC-3986, have duplicate "/" removed from the URL paths, and passed like that directly to the `kube-apiserver` `--etcd-servers` flag. If you have etcd endpoints that have Unicode characters, it is advisable to encode them in advance with tooling that is fully IDNA compliant....

  - A server-side apply request that makes unrelated changes to an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list no longer fails, and leaves the existing duplicate items as-is.

release of kustomize, so there are a few backwards-incompatible changes, most of which are rare use cases, bug fixes with side effects, or things that have been deprecated for multiple releases already:
  
  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4911: Drop support for a very old, legacy style of patches. patches used to be allowed to be used as an alias for patchesStrategicMerge in kustomize v3. You now have to use patchesStrategicMerge explicitly, or update to the new syntax...

    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes)
- [v1.16.4](#v1164)
  - [Downloads for v1.16.4](#downloads-for-v1164)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-12)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-12)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-12)
  - [Changelog since v1.16.3](#changelog-since-v1163)
    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
- [v1.16.3](#v1163)

    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes)
- [v1.15.7](#v1157)
  - [Downloads for v1.15.7](#downloads-for-v1157)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-5)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-5)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-5)
  - [Changelog since v1.15.6](#changelog-since-v1156)
    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
- [v1.15.6](#v1156)

- Newly provisioned PVs by vSphere in-tree plugin will no longer have the beta `FailureDomain` label. vSphere volume plugin will start to have GA topology label ([#102414](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102414),...

    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes)
- [v1.12.9](#v1129)
  - [Downloads for v1.12.9](#downloads-for-v1129)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-1)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-1)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-1)
  - [Changelog since v1.12.8](#changelog-since-v1128)
    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
- [v1.12.8](#v1128)