### Deprecation

- Aborting the drain command in a list of nodes will be deprecated. The new behavior will make the drain command go through all nodes even if one or more nodes failed during the drain. For now, users can try such experience by enabling --ignore-errors flag. ([#98203](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98203), [@yuzhiquan](https://github.com/yuzhiquan))

### SIG-cluster-lifecycle

In 1.12, SIG Cluster lifecycle has focused on improving the user experience in kubeadm, by fixing a number of bugs and adding some new important features.

Here is a list of some of the changes that have been made to kubeadm:

- Kubeadm internal config has been promoted to `v1alpha3`:

This release includes a change to [kubectl get and describe to work better with extensions](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/515), as the server, rather than the client, returns this information for a smoother user experience.

### Network

- A new feature has been enabled to improve the performance of the iptables mode of kube-proxy in large clusters. You do not need to take any action, however:
  

[SIG Autoscaling]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-autoscaling

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

[SIG Cluster Lifecycle][] is responsible for the user experience of deploying,
upgrading, and deleting clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Cluster Lifecycle continued to focus on expanding the
capabilities of kubeadm, which is both a user-facing tool to manage clusters

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

  - nikhita
  - parispittman
  - palnabarun
  - kaslin
  - MadhavJivrajani
  - Priyankasaggu11929
approvers:
  - sig-contributor-experience-approvers
  - parispittman
emeritus_approvers:
  - castrojo
  - Phillels
labels:

For 1.13 SIG Cluster Lifecycle is pleased to announce the long awaited promotion of kubeadm to stable GA, and the promotion of kubeadm’s configuration API to `v1beta1`.
In this release the SIG again focused on further improving the user experience on cluster creation and also fixing a number of bugs and other assorted improvements.

Some notable changes in kubeadm since Kubernetes 1.12:

  - [Other doc]: <link>
  --> ([#86139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86139), [@jasimmons](https://github.com/jasimmons)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Autoscaling, CLI, Contributor Experience, Instrumentation, Network, Node, Release, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

- If a conflict occurs when creating an object with `generateName`, the server now returns an "AlreadyExists" error with a retry option. ([#1...