- Kubeadm: uses the api-server AdvertiseAddress IP family to choose the etcd endpoint IP family for non external etcd clusters ([#85745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85745), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- When a CNI plugin returns dual-stack pod IPs, kubelet will now try to respect the
  "primary IP family" of the cluster by picking a primary pod IP of the same family
  as the (primary) node IP, rather than assuming that the CNI plugin returned the IPs
  in the order the administrator wanted (since some CNI plugins don't allow

- Kubenet: added HostPort IPv6 support.  HostPortManager: operates only with one IP family, failing if receives port mapping entries with different IP families.  HostPortSyncer: operates only with one IP family, skipping portmap entries with different IP families ([#80854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80854), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- File content check for IPV4 is now enabled by default, and the check of IPV4 or IPV6 is done for `kubeadm init` or `kubeadm join` only in case the user intends to create a cluster to support that kind of IP address family ([#115420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115420), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

- [KCCM] service controller: change the cloud controller manager to make `providerID` a predicate when synchronizing nodes. This...

- Updated crictl to v1.12.0 ([#69033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69033), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### SIG Network

- Corrected family type (inet6) for ipsets in ipv6-only clusters ([#68436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68436), [@uablrek](https://github.com/uablrek))

    *   Allow mount utilities, used to mount volumes, to run inside a container instead of on the host.
*   Bug Fixes
    *   ScaleIO volume plugin is no longer dependent on the drv_cfg binary, so a Kubernetes cluster can easily run a containerized kubelet. ([#54956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54956),[ @vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))

* ScaleIO driver completely removes dependency on drv_cfg binary so a Kubernetes cluster can easily run a containerized kubelet. ([#54956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54956), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))



# v1.8.3

## Changelog since v1.12.0-beta.2

### Action Required

* Service events are now added in azure-cloud-provider for easily identify the underground errors of Azure API. ([#68212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68212), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kube-proxy IP family will be determined by the nodeIP used by the proxier. The order of precedence is:
  1. the configured --bind-address if the bind address is not 0.0.0.0 or ::
  2. the primary IP from the Node object, if set.