- Add support to generate client-side binaries for new darwin/arm64 platform ([#97743](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97743), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Release and Testing]

* Webhook always retries connection reset error. ([#53947](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53947), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* fix PV Recycle failed on non-amd64 platform ([#53958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53958), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly on Windows platform during upgrade ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    - [Auth](#auth-1)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle-1)
      - [kubeadm](#kubeadm)
      - [kops](#kops)
      - [Cluster Discovery/Bootstrap](#cluster-discoverybootstrap)
      - [Multi-platform](#multi-platform)
      - [Cloud Providers](#cloud-providers)
    - [Network](#network)
      - [network-policy](#network-policy)
      - [kube-proxy ipvs mode](#kube-proxy-ipvs-mode)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)

- `kubeadm`: fixed a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly
  on Windows platform during upgrade. ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- `kubeadm`: speedup init by 0s or 20s. kubelet-start phase is now after etcd

As far as platforms, working with SIG-Windows, enhancements were made to the kubelet to improve platform support on Windows operating systems, and improvements to resource management were also made.  In particular, support for sysctls on Linux graduated to beta.

### SIG OpenStack

* fix issue: fail to detach azure disk when there is server side error ([#74398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74398), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix keymutex issues which may crash in some platforms. ([#74386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74386), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))

    * While this is a backwards-incompatible change, it would have been impossible to setup reliable monitoring around these metrics since the labels were not stable. 
* Fix keymutex issues which may crash in some platforms. ([#74386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74386), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))



# v1.12.6

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Downloads for v1.12.6

* Make addon-manager cross-platform and use it with hyperkube ([#25631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25631), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

    * Fixed CNI configuration on GCI platform when using CNI.
* make --runtime-config=api/all=true|false work ([#32582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32582), [@jlowdermilk](https://github.com/jlowdermilk))