*   You now have the option to use CoreDNS instead of KubeDNS. To install CoreDNS instead of kube-dns, set CLUSTER_DNS_CORE_DNS to 'true'. This support is experimental. ([#52501](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52501),[ @rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep)) ([#55728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55728),[ @rajansandeep](...

* Update kube-dns to Version 1.14.10. Major changes: ([#62676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62676), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * - Fix a bug in DNS resolution for externalName services
    * and PTR records that need to query from upstream nameserver.

* Make CoreDNS be the default DNS server in kube-up (instead of kube-dns formerly).  ([#67569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67569), [@fturib](https://github.com/fturib))
    * It is still possible to deploy kube-dns by setting CLUSTER_DNS_CORE_DNS=false.

* Revert [#63905](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63905): Setup dns servers and search domains for Windows Pods. DNS for Windows containers will be set by CNI plugins. ([#66587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66587), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kubeadm: the deprecated kube-dns is no longer supported as an option. If "ClusterConfiguration.dns.type" is set to "kube-dns" kubeadm will now throw an error. ([#99646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99646), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### SIG Network

For 1.13, the areas of focus were in IPv6, DNS improvements and some smaller items:
CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests
Node-local DNS cache feature is available in Alpha. This feature deploys a lightweight DNS caching Daemonset that avoids the conntrack and converts queries from UDP to more reliable TCP.

* Update kube-dns to Version 1.14.10. Major changes: ([#62676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62676), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * - Fix a bug in DNS resolution for externalName services and PTR records that need to query from upstream nameserver.



# v1.8.11

- `StatefulSet` names must be DNS labels, rather than subdomains. Any `StatefulSet`
  which took advantage of subdomain validation (by having dots in the name) can't
  possibly have worked, because we eventually set `pod.spec.hostname` from the `StatefulSetName`,

- Bind dns-horizontal containers to linux nodes to avoid Windows scheduling on kubernetes cluster includes linux nodes and windows nodes ([#83364](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83364), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Windows]

- This PR sets the --cluster-dns flag value to kube-dns service IP whether or not NodeLocal DNSCache is enabled. NodeLocal DNSCache will listen on both the link-local as well as the service IP. ([#84383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84383), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
- kube-dns add-on:
  - All containers are now being executed under more restrictive privileges.