* Bump ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 to fix vulnerabilities ([#77834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77834), [@anfernee](https://github.com/anfernee))
* fix pod stuck issue due to corrupt mnt point in flexvol plugin, call Unmount if PathExists returns any error ([#75234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75234), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

 - Scheduling failures due to no nodes available are now reported as unschedulable under ```schedule_attempts_total``` metric. ([#90989](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90989), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Scheduling]

  * Deployment was Alpha in 1.1 (though it had apiVersion extensions/v1beta1) and
was disabled by default. Due to some non-backward-compatible API changes, any
Deployment objects you created in 1.1 won’t work with in the 1.2 release.

* fix detach azure disk issue due to dirty cache ([#71495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71495), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Bugfix: master startup script on GCP no longer fails randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

- Kubeadm: remove the "ephemeral_storage" request from the etcd static pod that kubeadm deploys on stacked etcd control plane nodes. This request has caused sporadic failures on some setups due to a problem in the kubelet with cadvisor and the LocalStorageCapacityIsolation feature gate. See this issue for more details: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/99305 ([#102673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102673), [...

- Support for proxying a request to a peer kube-apiserver if the local apiserver is not able to serve it due to version skew or in the case the requested api is disabled on the local apiserver ([#117740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117740), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Cloud Provider, Network,...

* Fix bug where master startup script on GCP failed randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))



# v1.8.4

* fix pod stuck issue due to corrupt mnt point in flexvol plugin, call Unmount if PathExists returns any error ([#75234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75234), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

 - Fix: azure disk dangling attach issue which would cause API throttling ([#90749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90749), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Fix: get attach disk error due to missing item in max count table ([#89768](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89768), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]