- Kube-apiserver now reloads serving certificates from disk every minute to allow rotation without restarting the server process ([#84200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84200), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman))

- Kubernetes will try to acquire the iptables lock every 100 msec during 5 seconds instead of every second. This is especially useful for environments using kube-proxy in iptables mode with a high churn rate of services. ([#85771](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85771), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG...

    - [SIG VMWare](#sig-vmware-1)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-11)
    - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
    - [Not Very Notable (that is, non-user-facing)](#not-very-notable-that-is-non-user-facing)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.12.0-rc.2](#v1120-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.12.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1120-rc2)

- Renames the timeout field for the DelegatingAuthenticationOptions to TokenRequestTimeout and set the timeout only for the token review client. Previously the timeout was also applied to watches making them reconnecting every 10 seconds. ([#101102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101102), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

- Fixed kubelet startup getting stuck with `NewVolumeManagerReconstruction` feature enabled and a...

* Kubeadm is currently omitting etcd certificates in a self-hosted deployment; this will be fixed in a point relelase. ([#61322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/61322))

* Some users, especially those with very large clusters, may see higher memory usage by the kube-controller-manager in 1.10. ([#61041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/61041))

*   If a namespaced resource is owned by a cluster scoped resource, and the namespaced dependent is processed before the cluster scoped owner has ever been observed by the garbage collector, the dependent will be erroneously deleted.

  For more information, see [#54940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/54940)

## Deprecations

- Fix: The volume is not detached after the pod and PVC objects are deleted. ([#116138](https://g...

* Adds the `Categories []string` field to API resources, which represents the list of group aliases (e.g. "all") that every resource belongs to.  ([#43338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43338), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

* new dhcp-domain parameter to be used for figuring out the hostname of a node ([#61890](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61890), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* Disable ipamperf integration tests as part of every PR verification. ([#61863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61863), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))