### Feature

- 'kubeadm: enhanced the "patches" functionality to be able to patch coredns
  deployment. The new patch target is called "corednsdeployment" (e.g. patch file
  "corednsdeployment+json.json"). This makes it possible to apply custom patches

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to version 1.3.7. ([#74136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74136), [@jkaniuk](https://github.com/jkaniuk))

    * Add `kubectl apply edit-last-applied` subcommand ([#42256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42256), [@shiywang](https://github.com/shiywang))

  * Strategic Merge Patch

    * Reference docs now display the patch type and patch merge key used by `kubectl apply` to merge and identify unique elements in arrays.

- Kube-apiserver: Fixed a `1.27`+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a `resourceVersion` from the watch cache by default, as in <`1.27` (disabling the change in PR 115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in PR 115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWi...

Renamed FeatureGate RequestManagement to APIPriorityAndFairness....

* kubectl rolling-update support for same image ([#24645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24645), [@jlowdermilk](https://github.com/jlowdermilk))
* Return "410 Gone" errors via watch stream when using watch cache ([#25369](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25369), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))



# v1.2.4

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [162e562 → v4.9.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/162e562...v4.9.0)

### Removed
- github.com/jessevdk/go-flags: [v1.4.0](https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags/tree/v1.4.0)



# v1.18.8

* AWS kube-up: Allow VPC CIDR to be specified (experimental) ([#23362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23362), [@miguelfrde](https://github.com/miguelfrde))
* Return "410 Gone" errors via watch stream when using watch cache ([#25369](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25369), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](h...