- When using `kubectl replace` (or the equivalent API call) on a Service, the caller no longer needs to do a read-modify-write cycle to fetch the allocated values for `.spec.clusterIP` and `.spec.ports[].nodePort`.  Instead the API server will automatically carry these forward from the original object when the new object does not specify them. ([#104673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104673), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))...

*   The deprecated options `--portal-net` and `--service-node-ports` for the API server are removed. ([#52547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52547),[ @xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

### **Auth**

* set EnableHTTPSTrafficOnly in azure storage account creation ([#64957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64957), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Rework Kubelet set `/etc/hosts` behavior to fix conformance testability ([#61613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61613), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

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## Dependencies

### Added

* falls back to parse Docker runtime version as generic if not semver ([#54040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54040), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* BUG FIX: Check both name and ports for azure health probes ([#56918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56918), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))



# v1.8.5

* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.

- Kube-proxy health check ports used to listen to `:<port>` for each of the services. This is not needed and opens ports in addresses the cluster user may not have intended. The PR limits listening to all node address which are controlled by `--nodeport-addresses` flag. if no addresses are provided then we default to existing...