- [Downloads for v1.2.0](#downloads-for-v120)
  - [Changes since v1.1.1](#changes-since-v111)
    - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [Other notable improvements](#other-notable-improvements)
    - [Experimental Features](#experimental-features)
    - [Action required](#action-required-1)
    - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
      - [Docker Known Issues](#docker-known-issues)
        - [1.9.1](#191)

## Notable Features
Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from the [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md).

- Migrate statefulset files to structured logging ([#106109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106109), [@h4ghhh](https://github.com/h4ghhh))
- Refactor kubelet command line for enabling features and "drop `RuntimeClass` feature gate" if present. Note that this feature has been on by default since 1.14 and was GA'ed in 1.20. ([#106882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106882), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

### Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA

The generic ephemeral volume feature moved to GA in 1.23.
This feature allows any existing storage driver that supports dynamic provisioning to be used as an ephemeral volume with the volume’s lifecycle bound to the Pod.
All StorageClass parameters for volume provisioning and all features supported with PersistentVolumeClaims are supported.

name: Enhancement Tracking Issue
description: Provide supporting details for a feature in development
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        Feature requests are unlikely to make progress as issues. Please consider engaging with SIGs on slack and mailing lists, instead.

tes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/596-csi-inline-volumes) feature allows CSI volumes to be specified directly in the pod specification for ephemeral use cases. They can be used to inject arbitrary states, such as configuration, secrets, identity, variables or similar information, directly inside pods using a mounted volume. This was initially introduced in 1.15 as an alpha feature, and it moved to GA. This feature is used by some CSI drivers such as the [secret-store CSI driver](http...

    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
- [v1.3.0-beta.2](#v130-beta2)
  - [Downloads](#downloads-11)
  - [Changes since v1.3.0-beta.1](#changes-since-v130-beta1)
    - [Experimental Features](#experimental-features)
    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-11)
- [v1.3.0-beta.1](#v130-beta1)
  - [Downloads](#downloads-12)
  - [Changes since v1.3.0-alpha.5](#changes-since-v130-alpha5)

- RemoteCommand feature gates for kubectl exec, cp, and attach over WebSockets are now enabled by default (Beta):
  - Server-side feature gate: `TranslateStreamCloseWebsocketRequests`
  - Client-side (kubectl) feature gate: `KUBECTL_REMOTE_COMMAND_WEBSOCKETS`

* PodReadinessGate feature is now GA. The feature gate will not allow disabling it. ([#74434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74434), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- Lock ServerSideApply feature gate to true with the feature already being GA. ([#112748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112748), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Instrumentation and Testing]