## Changelog since v1.12.5

### Other notable changes

* kubeadm: fixed nil pointer dereference caused by a bug in url parsing ([#74454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74454), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

- Updates that remove remaining `metadata.finalizers` from  an object that is pending deletion (non-nil metadata.deletionTimestamp) and has no graceful deletion pending (nil or 0 metadata.deletionGracePeriodSeconds) now results in immediate deletion of the object. ([#77952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77952), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Automated cherry pick of [#49259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49259): update json-patch to fix nil value issue when creating mergepatch ([#59324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59324), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

				v.Aux = symToAux(mergeSym(sym1, sym2))
				v.AddArg2(y, x)
				return true
			}
		}
		break
	}
	// match: (LEAL1 [0] {nil} x y)
	// result: (ADDL x y)
	for {
		if auxIntToInt32(v.AuxInt) != 0 || auxToSym(v.Aux) != nil {
			break
		}
		x := v_0
		y := v_1
		v.reset(Op386ADDL)
		v.AddArg2(x, y)
		return true
	}
	return false
}

* etcd client add dial timeout. ([#61459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61459), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))
* nil admission options are now consistent with other nil options. ([#63993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63993), [@tamalsaha](https://github.com/tamalsaha))

		Schema: spec.Schema{
			SchemaProps: spec.SchemaProps{
				Description: "JSON represents any valid JSON value. These types are supported: bool, int64, float64, string, []interface{}, map[string]interface{} and nil.",
				Type:        v1.JSON{}.OpenAPISchemaType(),
				Format:      v1.JSON{}.OpenAPISchemaFormat(),
			},
		},
	}
}

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Added bool type support for jsonpath. ([#39063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39063), [@xingzhou](https://github.com/xingzhou))
* Preventing nil pointer reference in client_config ([#40508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40508), [@vjsamuel](https://github.com/vjsamuel))

* Fixes a bug where if an error was returned that was not an `autorest.DetailedError` we would return `"not found", nil` which caused nodes to go to `NotReady` state. ([#57484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57484), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))



# v1.8.6

- Fix missing "apiVersion" for "involvedObject" in Events for Nodes. ([#87537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87537), [@uthark](https://github.com/uthark)) [SIG Apps and Node]
- Fix nil pointer dereference in azure cloud provider ([#85975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85975), [@ldx](https://github.com/ldx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]