- 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.

- Fixed a bug where improper storage and comparison of endpoints led to excessive API traffic from the endpoints controller ([#94935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94935), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

- resource metrics endpoint `/metrics/resource/v1alpha1` as well as all metrics under this endpoint have been deprecated. Please convert to the following metrics emitted by endpoint `/metrics/resource`:
  - scrape_error --> scrape_error
  - node_cpu_usage_seconds_total --> node_cpu_usage_seconds

## Changelog since v1.12.7

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- Fixed issue with `Winkernel Proxier` - No ingress load balancer rules with endpoints to support load balancing when all the endpoints are terminating. ([#113776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113776), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira))

### **Cluster Lifecycle**

#### **API Server**

## Changelog since v1.13.5

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

* Format-separated endpoints for the OpenAPI spec, such as /swagger.json, /swagger-2.0.0.0.json, and so on, have been deprecated. The old endpoints will remain in 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13, and get removed in 1.14. Please use single `/openapi/v2` endpoint with the appropriate Accept: header instead. For example:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>previous</td>

* The v1.Service.PublishNotReadyAddresses field is added to notify DNS addons to publish the notReadyAddresses of Enpdoints. The "service.alpha.kubernetes.io/tolerate-unready-endpoints" annotation has been deprecated and will be removed when clients have sufficient time to consume the field. ([#49061](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49061), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))

- Kube-proxy service health returns http header `X-Load-Balancing-Endpoint-Weight` with number of local endpoints. The same information is still available in response body JSON `payload.LocalEndpoints`. ([#118999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118999), [@cezarygerard](https://github.com/cezarygerard))