be prematurely closed when deleting a pod with an iSCSI persistent volume attached and that prevented the use of newly created LUNs on targets with preestablished connections. ([#41196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41196)), [@CristianPop](https://github.com/CristianPop))

## 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))

* Add conntrack as a dependency of kubelet and kubeadm when building rpms and debs. Both require conntrack to handle cleanup of connections. ([#71540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71540), [@mauilion](https://github.com/mauilion))
* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

  - If the custom resource participates the spec/status convention, the metadata.generation of the CR increments when there is any change, except for the changes to the metadata or the changes to the status.
  - If the custom resource does not participate the spec/status convention, the metadata.generation of the CR increments when there is any change to the CR, except for changes to the metadata.

- When client certificate files are provided, reload files for new connections, and close connections when a certificate changes. ([#79083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79083), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

  -  Remove already deprecated options `resyncperiod` and `upstream` in the Kubernetes plugin.
  -  Includes Prometheus metrics name changes (to bring them in line with standard Prometheus metrics naming convention). They will be backward incompatible with existing reporting formulas that use the old metrics' names.
  -  The federation plugin (allows for v1 Kubernetes federation) has been removed.

- github.com/docker/docker: [v20.10.27+incompatible → v26.1.4+incompatible](https://github.com/docker/docker/compare/v20.10.27...v26.1.4)
- github.com/docker/go-connections: [v0.4.0 → v0.5.0](https://github.com/docker/go-connections/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0)
- github.com/exponent-io/jsonpath: [d6023ce → 1de76d7](https://github.com/exponent-io/jsonpath/compare/d6023ce...1de76d7)

- New metrics: `apiserver_kube_aggregator_x509_missing_san_total` and `apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total`. This metric measures a number of connections to webhooks/aggregated API servers that use certificates without Subject Alternative Names. It being non-zero is a warning sign that these connections will stop functioning in the future since Golang is going to deprecate x509 certificate subject Common Names for server hostname verification. ([#95396](https://github....

- Don't use a custom dialer for the kubelet if is not rotating certificates, so we can reuse TCP connections and have only one between the apiserver and the kubelet.

* kube-proxy in IPVS mode will stop initiating connections to terminating pods for services with sessionAffinity set. ([#71834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71834), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))