**/.hg
**/.hg*

# Vagrant
.vagrant
network_closure.sh

# Local cluster env variables
/cluster/env.sh

# Compiled binaries in third_party
/third_party/pkg

# Also ignore etcd installed by hack/install-etcd.sh
/third_party/etcd*
/default.etcd

# Also ignore protoc installed by hack/install-protoc.sh
/third_party/protoc*

# User cluster configs
.kubeconfig

.tags*

# Version file for dockerized build

- One new field "InternalTrafficPolicy" in Service is added.
  It specifies if the cluster internal traffic should be routed to all endpoints or node-local endpoints only.
  "Cluster" routes internal traffic to a Service to all endpoints.
  "Local" routes traffic to node-local endpoints only, and traffic is dropped if no node-local endpoints are ready.

- Kubeadm: during "join", don't re-add an etcd member if it already exists in the cluster. ([#92118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92118), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- hyperkube: Use debian-hyperkube-base@v1.1.1 image
  

### Cluster Lifecycle

that they span multiple clusters. Creating a Federated HPA targeting
multiple clusters ensures that cluster-level autoscalers are
consistently deployed across those clusters, and dynamically managed
to ensure that autoscaling can occur optimially in all clusters,
within a set of global constraints on the total number of replicas
permitted across all clusters.  If replicas are not

[@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle, SIG Release, and SIG Testing
- kubeadm - Feature-gates HighAvailability, SelfHosting, CertsInSecrets are now deprecated and can no longer be used for new clusters. Cluster updates using above feature-gates flag is not supported. ([#67786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67786), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle

[https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213) sig-cluster-lifecycle has decided to phase out the cluster/ directory over the next couple of releases in favor of deployment automations maintained outside of the core repo and outside of kubernetes orgs. ([@kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/teams/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc))

    * Remove deprecated ContainerVM support from GCE kube-up.  ([#58247...

- [KCCM - service controller]: enable 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...

- `-- kube-controller-manager`
  `--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv4 int32`     Default: 24. Mask size for IPv4 node-cidr in dual-stack cluster.
`--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv6 int32`     Default: 64. Mask size for IPv6 node-cidr in dual-stack cluster.

    These 2 flags can be used only for dual-stack clusters. For non dual-stack clusters, continue to use  `--node-cidr-mask-size` flag to configure the mask size.

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where the --rootfs global flag does not work with "kubeadm upgrade node" for control plane nodes. ([#123097](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123097), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed