### 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.

- Fixes a problem with 63-second or 1-second connection delays with some VXLAN-based
  network plugins which was first widely noticed in 1.16 (though some users saw it
  earlier than that, possibly only with specific network plugins). If you were previously
  using ethtool to disable checksum offload on your primary network interface, you should

- The `kubectl top` command now includes a `--sort-by` option to sort by `memory` or `cpu`. ([#75920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75920), [@artmello](https://github.com/artmello))

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- In some cases, a Flex volume resize may leave a PVC with erroneous Resizing condition even after volume has been successfully expanded. Users may choose to delete the condition, but it is not required. ([#71470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71470))

* Fix a typo in prometheus-to-sd configuration, that drops some stackdriver metrics. ([#56473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56473), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

- Fixed a situation when, 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),...

Before updating to 1.9, you are strongly recommended to back up your etcd data. Consult the installation procedure you are using (kargo, kops, kube-up, kube-aws, kubeadm etc) for specific advice.

  - [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)