- Controller-manager: the following flags have no effect and would be removed in v1.24:
  - `--port`
  - `--address`
  The insecure port flags `--port` may only be set to 0 now.
- Kube-scheduler: the `--port` and `--address` flags have no effect and would be removed in v1.24.
  The insecure port flags `--port` may only be set to 0 now.

### kubeadm
* Quite a few flags been renamed or removed.  Those options that are removed as flags can still be accessed via the config file.  Most notably this includes external etcd settings and the option for setting the cloud provider on the API server.  The [kubeadm reference documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubeadm/) is up to date with the new flags.

### Other Deprecations

the same purpose. For `init` and `join` it is now recommended that you migrate to configure patches via `{Init|Join}Configuration.patches.directory`. For the time being, these flags can be mixed with `--config`, but that might change in the future. On a command line, the last *patches flag takes precedence over previous flags and the value in config. `kubeadm upgrade --patches` will continue to be the only available option, since `upgrade` does not support a configuration file yet. ([#103063](http...

yujuhong))

* The Kubelet now explicitly registers all of its command-line flags with an internal flagset, which prevents flags from third party libraries from unintentionally leaking into the Kubelet's command-line API. Many unintentionally leaked flags are now marked deprecated, so that users have a chance to migrate away from them before they are removed. In addition, one previously leaked flag, --cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs, has been entirely removed from the Kubelet's command-line...

### 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


## Downloads for v1.18.8

### Source Code

filename | sha512 hash
-------- | -----------

    - [Introducing <code>RootCAConfigMap</code>](#introducing-rootcaconfigmap)
    - [<code>kubectl debug</code> graduates to Beta](#kubectl-debug-graduates-to-beta)
    - [Removing deprecated flags in kubeadm](#removing-deprecated-flags-in-kubeadm)
    - [Pod Hostname as FQDN graduates to Beta](#pod-hostname-as-fqdn-graduates-to-beta)

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kube-controller-manager`:

  * `replication-controller-lookup-cache-size`
  * `replicaset-lookup-cache-size`
  * `daemonset-lookup-cache-size`

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  - The deprecated `--etcd-quorum-read` flag has been removed. Quorum reads are now always enabled when fetching data from etcd. Remove the `--etcd-quorum-read` flag from kube-apiserver invocations before upgrading.
- kube-controller-manager
  - The deprecated `--insecure-experimental-approve-all-kubelet-csrs-for-group` flag has been removed.
- kubelet

  - `storage-version-migrator-controller` ([#130405](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130405), [@kariya-mitsuru](https://github.com/kariya-mitsuru)) [SIG Auth]
- The response from kube-apiserver's `/flagz` endpoint would respond correctly with parsed flags value. ([#129996](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129996), [@yongruilin](https://github.com/yongruilin)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Instrumentation and Testing]

- Kubelet now exposes `/debug/flags/v` to allow dynamically setting glog logging level.  For example, to change glog level to 3, you only have to send a PUT request like `curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug/flags/v -d "3"`. ([#64601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64601), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

### SIG OpenStack