literal.
</p>


<h2 id="Constants">Constants</h2>

<p>There are <i>boolean constants</i>,
<i>rune constants</i>,
<i>integer constants</i>,
<i>floating-point constants</i>, <i>complex constants</i>,
and <i>string constants</i>. Rune, integer, floating-point,
and complex constants are
collectively called <i>numeric constants</i>.
</p>

<p>
A constant value is represented by a

* Bump addon-manager to v9.0.1 ([#77282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77282), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * Rebase image on debian-base:v1.0.0
* If a pod has a running instance, the stats of its previously terminated instances will not show up in the kubelet summary stats any more for CRI runtimes like containerd and cri-o. ([#77426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77426), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- kubeadm: The kubeadm configuration now supports the definition of more than one control plane instances with their own APIEndpoint. The APIEndpoint for the "bootstrap" control plane instance should be defined using `InitConfiguration.APIEndpoint`, while the APIEndpoints for additional control plane instances should be added using `JoinConfiguration.APIEndpoint`. ([#67832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67832), [@fabriziopandini](http...

- If a pod has a running instance, the stats of its previously terminated instances will not show up in the kubelet summary stats any more for CRI runtimes such as containerd and cri-o. This keeps the behavior consistent with Docker integration, and fixes an issue that some container Prometheus metrics don't work when there are summary stats for multiple instances of the same pod. ([#77426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77426),...

- Deprecate the instance type beta label (`beta.kubernetes.io/instance-type`) in favor of its GA equivalent: `node.kubernetes.io/instance-type` ([#82049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82049), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

* Only use the first IP address got from instance metadata. This is because Azure CNI would set up a list of IP addresses in instance metadata, while only the first one is the Node's IP. ([#71736](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71736), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* If a pod has a running instance, the stats of its previously terminated instances will not show up in the kubelet summary stats any more for CRI runtimes like containerd and cri-o. ([#77426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77426), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

### Cloud Controller Manager now exclusively shipped by Cloud Provider

## Changelog since v1.8.11

### Other notable changes

* GCE: Fix for internal load balancer management resulting in backend services with outdated instance group links. ([#62887](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62887), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))