- CPUManager Policy Options support is GA ([#130535](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130535), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

- Added a kubelet metrics to report informations about the cpu pools managed by cpumanager when the static policy is in use. ([#127506](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127506), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Passing an invalid policy name in the `--cpu-manager-policy` flag will now cause the kubelet to fail instead of simply ignoring the flag and running the `cpumanager`’s default policy instead. ([#80294](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80294), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))

- Added kubelet metrics to track the cpumanager cpu allocation and pinning ([#112855](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112855), [@fromanirh](https://github.com/fromanirh))
- Added new Golang runtime-related metrics to Kubernetes components:

* 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

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io) & [Examples](https://releases.k8s.io/release-1.8/examples)

- Kubelet: fix GetAllocatableCPUs method in cpumanager ([#113420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113420), [@Garrybest](https://github.com/Garrybest)) [SIG Node]