- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))
* removed unsafe double RLock in cpumanager ([#62464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62464), [@choury](https://github.com/choury))



# v1.8.12

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- Users can now traverse all the pods that are in the scheduler and waiting in the permit stage through method `IterateOverWaitingPods`. In other words,  all waitingPods in scheduler can be obtained from any profiles. Before this commit, each profile could only obtain `waitingPods` within that profile ([#122946](https://github.com/kubernetes...

- Graduated the following kubelet resource metrics to **general availability**:
  - `container_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `container_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `container_start_time_seconds`
  - `node_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `node_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `pod_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `pod_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `resource_scrape_error`
  

- Remove check for CSI driver running on node for CSI migration ([#115772](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115772), [@sunnylovestiramisu](https://github.com/sunnylovestiramisu)) [SIG Apps and Storage]
- Set device stage path whenever available for expansion during mount ([#115346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115346), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added