## Changelog since v1.6.9

### Other notable changes

* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* Ensure IP is set for Azure internal load balancer. ([#59083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59083), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

* Set route_localnet on nodes & masters in GCE ([#55004](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55004), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))
* Configurable liveness probe initial delays for etcd and kube-apiserver in GCE ([#57749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57749), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

[kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz](https://dl.k8s.io/v1.8.8/kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz) | `52091e45d6aa93be2fe575284331f0eb7e7d3782826ec11aaca5feb6cb76d502`

## Changelog since v1.8.7

### Other notable changes

* Configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.



# v1.12.2

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Downloads for v1.12.2


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- `MaxUnavailable` for `StatefulSets`, allows faster `RollingUpdate` by taking down more than 1 pod at a time.
  The number of pods you want to take down during a `RollingUpdate` is configurable using `maxUnavailable` parameter.
   ([#109251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109251), [@krmayankk](https://github.com/krmayankk))

- Azure VMSS/VMSSVM clients now suppress requests on throttling ([#86740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86740), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure cloud provider cache TTL is configurable, list of the azure cloud provider is as following:
  - "availabilitySetNodesCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmssCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmssVirtualMachinesCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmCacheTTLInSeconds"

- Kubeadm: fix the bug that configurable KubernetesVersion not respected during kubeadm join ([#111022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111022), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

  - Don't treat nodes created by virtual kubelet as nodes from non-autoscaled node groups
  - Remove redundant logging around calculating node utilization
  - Add configurable `--network` and `--rm` flags for docker in `Makefile`
  - Subtract DaemonSet pods' requests from node allocatable in the denominator while computing node utilization