- [CHANGELOG-1.2.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.2.md)
- [CHANGELOG-1.3.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.3.md)
- [CHANGELOG-1.4.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.4.md)
- [CHANGELOG-1.5.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.5.md)

/third_party/protoc*

# User cluster configs
.kubeconfig

.tags*

# Version file for dockerized build
.dockerized-kube-version-defs

# Web UI
/www/master/node_modules/
/www/master/npm-debug.log
/www/master/shared/config/development.json

# Karma output
/www/test_out

# precommit temporary directories created by ./hack/verify-generated-docs.sh and ./hack/lib/util.sh
/_tmp/
/doc_tmp/

* The dashboard add-on has been updated to v1.8.3, as compared to 1.8.0 in v1.9. ([#57326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57326))
* Heapster has is the same as v1.9: v1.5.0. It will be upgraded in v1.11. ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/cluster/addons/cluster-monitoring/google/heapster-controller.yaml))

# Files that should be ignored by tools which do not want to consider generated
# code.
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- Pod status updates faster when reacting on probe results. The first readiness probe will be called faster when startup probes succeeded, which will make Pod status as ready faster. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

- Kubelet: remove deprecated flag `--container-runtime` ([#114017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114017), [@calvin0327](https://github.com/calvin0327)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Node]
- Kubelet: the deprecated `--master-service-namespace` flag is removed in v1.27 ([#116015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116015), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

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- [v1.8.0-rc.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-rc1)
- [v1.8.0-beta.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-beta1)
- [v1.8.0-alpha.3](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-alpha3)
- [v1.8.0-alpha.2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-alpha2)

        Links to go.k8s.io/triage and/or links to specific failures in spyglass are appreciated.
        Please see the deflaking doc (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-testing/flaky-tests.md) for more guidance.
    validations:
      required: true

  - type: textarea
    id: tests
    attributes:
      label: Which tests are flaking?
    validations:

- Using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with metrics from Heapster is now deprecated and will be disabled in a future version. ([#68089](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68089), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))

## New Features