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// homedepot : Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/homedepot.html
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// homegoods : The TJX Companies, Inc.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/homegoods.html
homegoods

// homes : XYZ.COM LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/homes.html
homes

// homesense : The TJX Companies, Inc.

- kubeadm: Allow users to skip the kube-proxy init addon phase during init and still be able to join a cluster and perform some other minor operations (but not upgrade). ([#82248](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82248), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

### Action Required

* [action required] Default Flexvolume plugin directory for COS images on GCE is changed to `/home/kubernetes/flexvolume`. ([#58171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58171), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- Sometimes, the scheduler incorrectly placed a pod in the "unschedulable" queue instead of the "backoff" queue. This happened when some plugin previously declared the pod as "unschedulable" and then in a later attempt encounters some other error. Scheduling of that pod then got delayed by up to five minutes, after which periodic flushing moved the pod back into the "active" queue. ([#120334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120334),...

  - [Changelog since v1.20.5](#changelog-since-v1205)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-1)
    - [CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields](#cve-2021-25735-validating-admission-webhook-does-not-observe-some-previous-fields)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-9)
    - [API Change](#api-change-2)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-9)

* You can now use `kubeadm token` specifying `--kubeconfig`.  In this case, kubeadm searches the current user home path and the environment variable KUBECONFIG for existing files. If provided, the `--kubeconfig` flag will be honored instead. ([#62850](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62850), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

[Before Upgrading](#before-upgrading).

For more information about the release and for the latest documentation,
see the [Kubernetes documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/).

[Setup topics]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/
[SIGs]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md


## Major Themes

For more information about this release and for the latest documentation, see the [Kubernetes documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/).

## Major themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into

### SIG-cluster-lifecycle

In 1.12, SIG Cluster lifecycle has focused on improving the user experience in kubeadm, by fixing a number of bugs and adding some new important features.

Here is a list of some of the changes that have been made to kubeadm:

- Kubeadm internal config has been promoted to `v1alpha3`:
  - `v1alpha1` has been removed.

- Using `--log-file` is known to be problematic in 1.15. This presents as things being logged multiple times to the same file. The behaviour and details of this issue, as well as some preliminary attempts at fixing it are documented [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/78734#issuecomment-501372131)