#### New Deprecations

* As a reminder, etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13. Please ensure that your clusters are upgraded to etcd3 as soon as possible.

  * Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

* [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.1. [[@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)]

- github.com/rogpeppe/fastuuid: 6724a57
- github.com/ryanuber/go-glob: 256dc44
- github.com/sergi/go-diff: v1.0.0
- github.com/shirou/gopsutil: c95755e
- github.com/shirou/w32: bb4de01
- github.com/shurcooL/go-goon: 37c2f52
- github.com/shurcooL/go: 9e1955d
- github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff: v0.5.1
- github.com/tarm/serial: 98f6abe
- github.com/tidwall/pretty: v1.0.0
- github.com/timakin/bodyclose: 87058b9

- [KCCM - service controller]: enabled connection draining for terminating pods upon node downscale by the cluster autoscaler. This is done by not reacting to the taint used by the cluster autoscaler to indicate that the node is going away soon, thus keeping the node referenced by the load balancer until the VM has been completely deleted. ([#115204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115204), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

  - in cases where the client specifies a timeout in the request URL, the overall request deadline is shortened now since the deadline is setup as soon as the request is received by the apiserver. ([#96901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96901), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Added `apiserver_longrunning_requests` metric to replace the soon to be deprecated `apiserver_longrunning_gauge` metric. ([#103799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103799), [@jyz0309](https://github.com/jyz0309))

- Promote StatefulSet minReadySeconds to GA. This means `--feature-gates=StatefulSetMinReadySeconds=true` are not needed on kube-apiserver and kube-controller-manager binaries and they'll be removed soon following policy at https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-policy/#deprecation ([#110896](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110896), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- github.com/shirou/gopsutil: [c95755e](https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/tree/c95755e)
- github.com/shirou/w32: [bb4de01](https://github.com/shirou/w32/tree/bb4de01)
- github.com/shurcooL/go-goon: [37c2f52](https://github.com/shurcooL/go-goon/tree/37c2f52)
- github.com/shurcooL/go: [9e1955d](https://github.com/shurcooL/go/tree/9e1955d)
- github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff: [v0.5.1](https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff/tree/v0.5.1)

* Dual stack services (Phase II of IPv6DualStack feature) are enabled via the IPVS proxier. iptables proxier does not support dualstack yet. Dualstack iptables proxier is WIP and should catchup soon. ([#82091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82091), [@khenidak](https://github.com/khenidak))
    * to enable, kube-proxy must be have the following flags:
    * --proxy-mode=ipvs
    * --cluster-cidrs=<cidr>,<cidr>

      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to
      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*
      endpoints, rather than waiting until all of the terminating
      endpoints have terminated even when those terminating endpoints
      were not being used.