* Fixes a bug in previous releases where a pod could be placed inside another pod's cgroup when specifying --cgroup-root ([#70678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70678), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Support server-side dry-run in kubectl with --dry-run=server for commands including apply, patch, create, run, annotate,...

* Fix pods failing to start when subPath is a dangling symlink from kubelet point of view, which can happen if it is running inside a container ([#48555](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48555), [@redbaron](https://github.com/redbaron))

- CSI Migration: Fixes issue where all volumes with the same inline volume inner spec name were staged in the same path. Migrated inline volumes are now staged at a unique path per unique volume. ([#84754](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84754), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

    * The vSphere cloud provider has a cleanup function with a loop,
    * inside of which a write lock was intended to prevent races against
    * VM creation, but the usage of the sync.RWMutex type is incorrect,
    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred

The SIG also focused on adding functionality to the Kubernetes volume subsystem, such as alpha support for exposing volumes as block devices inside containers, extending the alpha volume-resizing support to more volume plugins, and topology-aware volume scheduling.

### Windows

- `volumes`: `resource.claims` is now cleared for PVC specs during create or update of a pod spec with inline PVC template or of a PVC because it has no effect. ([#115928](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115928), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Feature

interacting with the system. Note: the GUI is enabled by default in 1.2 clusters.

<img src="docs/images/newgui.png" width="" alt="Dashboard UI screenshot showing cards that represent applications that run inside a cluster" title="Dashboard UI apps screen">

### Other notable improvements

  * Job was Beta in 1.1 and is GA in 1.2 .

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

		* Restored the ability of kubectl running inside a pod to consume resource files specifying a different namespace than the one the pod is running in. ([#44862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44862), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))