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### Other notable changes

* Fix a deadlock in kubeadm master initialization. ([#43835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43835), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

      - [Horizontal Pod Autoscaler](#horizontal-pod-autoscaler)
    - [**Cluster Lifecycle**](#cluster-lifecycle)
      - [kubeadm](#kubeadm-1)
      - [Cloud Provider Support](#cloud-provider-support)
    - [**Cluster Federation**](#cluster-federation)
      - [Placement Policy](#placement-policy)
      - [Cluster Selection](#cluster-selection)
    - [**Instrumentation**](#instrumentation)

the Cluster Autoscaler, which provides improved performance and error reporting.

[SIG Autoscaling]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-autoscaling

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

[SIG Cluster Lifecycle][] is responsible for the user experience of deploying,
upgrading, and deleting clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Cluster Lifecycle continued to focus on expanding the

### Cluster Lifecycle

## Changelog since v1.11.1

### Action Required

* Cluster Autoscaler version updated to 1.3.1. Release notes: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.3.1 ([#66123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66123), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
    * Default value for expendable pod priority cutoff in GCP deployment of Cluster Autoscaler changed from 0 to -10.

[https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213) sig-cluster-lifecycle has decided to phase out the cluster/ directory over the next couple of releases in favor of deployment automations maintained outside of the core repo and outside of kubernetes orgs. ([@kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/teams/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc))

    * Remove deprecated ContainerVM support from GCE kube-up.  ([#58247...

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.14.2 ([#77064](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77064), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
    * https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.14.2 
    * https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.14.1

- Kubeadm: graduate the command `kubeadm alpha kubeconfig user` to `kubeadm kubeconfig user`. The `kubeadm alpha kubeconfig user` command is deprecated now. ([#97583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97583), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- kubelet v1.25.0


To upgrade, refer to this documentation _For core Kubernetes:_ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cluster-management/#upgrading-a-cluster 

### Detection

Kubernetes Audit logs may indicate if the user name was misspelled to bypass the restriction placed on which user is a pod allowed to run as.

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