## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [162e562 → v4.9.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/162e562...v4.9.0)

### Removed
- github.com/jessevdk/go-flags: [v1.4.0](https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags/tree/v1.4.0)



# v1.16.14

    * Add `kubectl apply edit-last-applied` subcommand ([#42256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42256), [@shiywang](https://github.com/shiywang))

  * Strategic Merge Patch

    * Reference docs now display the patch type and patch merge key used by `kubectl apply` to merge and identify unique elements in arrays.

- Kube-apiserver: Fixed a `1.27`+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a `resourceVersion` from the watch cache by default, as in <`1.27` (disabling the change in PR 115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in PR 115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWi...

Renamed FeatureGate RequestManagement to APIPriorityAndFairness....

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [162e562 → v4.9.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/162e562...v4.9.0)

### Removed
- github.com/jessevdk/go-flags: [v1.4.0](https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags/tree/v1.4.0)



# v1.18.8

- Added ability for kubectl wait to wait on arbitary JSON path (#105776, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Added the ability to specify whether to use an RFC7396 JSON Merge Patch, an RFC6902 JSON Patch, or a Strategic Merge Patch to perform an override of the resources created by kubectl run and kubectl expose. (#105140, @brianpursley) [SIG CLI]

### Feature

- 'kubeadm: enhanced the "patches" functionality to be able to patch coredns
  deployment. The new patch target is called "corednsdeployment" (e.g. patch file
  "corednsdeployment+json.json"). This makes it possible to apply custom patches

* Because some plugins mount volume on sub-directory of volume path, we need to distinguish between volume path and mount path to fix issue in reconstruction. ([#74653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74653), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

    *  - Created new GCE_SSH_KEY allowing specification of SSH keys for gce, gke, and kubemark.
    *  - AWS_SSH_KEY, previously assumed to be an absolute path can now be either relative or absolute

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion`...