- When using `kubectl replace` (or the equivalent API call) on a Service, the caller no longer needs to do a read-modify-write cycle to fetch the allocated values for `.spec.clusterIP` and `.spec.ports[].nodePort`.  Instead the API server will automatically carry these forward from the original object when the new object does not specify them. ([#104673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104673), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))...

*   The deprecated options `--portal-net` and `--service-node-ports` for the API server are removed. ([#52547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52547),[ @xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

### **Auth**

* set EnableHTTPSTrafficOnly in azure storage account creation ([#64957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64957), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Rework Kubelet set `/etc/hosts` behavior to fix conformance testability ([#61613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61613), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

- kube- and cloud-controller-manager can now listen on ports up to 65535 rather than 32768, solving problems with operating systems that request these higher ports.. ([#65860](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65860), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Added warning for dup ports update/patching in pod's container ports and service ports. ([#113245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113245), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

 
## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- CVE-2020-8557 (Medium): Node-local denial of service via container /etc/hosts file. See https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/93032 for more details. ([#92916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92916), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG Node]

- The maximum number of ports allowed in EndpointSlices has been increased from 100 to 20,000 ([#99795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99795), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

## Dependencies

### Added

* falls back to parse Docker runtime version as generic if not semver ([#54040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54040), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* BUG FIX: Check both name and ports for azure health probes ([#56918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56918), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))



# v1.8.5

* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.