- `kubectl debug` gains support for changing container images when copying a pod for debugging, similar to how `kubectl set image` works. See `kubectl help debug` for more information. ([#96058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96058), [@verb](https://github.com/verb)) [SIG CLI]

### Documentation

rather than booleans. This change to the alpha API is not backwards compatible; implementations of the CRI such as containerd, will need to update to the new API version. ([#58973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58973), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

* The default Flexvolume plugin directory for COS images on GCE has changed to `/home/kubernetes/flexvolume`, rather than `/etc/srv/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec`. Existing Flexvolume installations in clusters using...

### Documentation

- `kubectl debug` will now print a warning message when using the `--target` option since many container runtimes do not support this yet. ([#101074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101074), [@verb](https://github.com/verb)) [SIG CLI]

### Bug or Regression

    - [SIG VMWare](#sig-vmware-1)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-11)
    - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
    - [Not Very Notable (that is, non-user-facing)](#not-very-notable-that-is-non-user-facing)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.12.0-rc.2](#v1120-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.12.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1120-rc2)

- The underlying format of the `CPUManager` state file has changed. Upgrades should be seamless, but any third-party tools that rely on reading the previous format need to be updated. ([#84462](https://github.com/kub...

  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Ephemeral containers graduated to beta and are now available by default. ([#105405](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105405), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

- Pod process namespace sharing is now Generally Available. The `PodShareProcessNamespace` feature gate is now deprecated and will be removed in Kubernetes 1.19. ([#84356](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84356), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))
- Fix handling tombstones in pod-disruption-budged controller. ([#83951](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83951), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

processes in other containers in a pod, but it also means that the `kubectl exec {pod} kill 1` pattern will cause the Pod to be restarted rather than a single container. ([#45236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45236), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

  * A new field hostAliases has been added to the pod spec to support [adding entries to a Pod's /etc/hosts file](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/add-entries-to-pod-etc-hosts-with-host-aliases/). ...

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