### Autoscaling
* **[alpha]** The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now supports drawing metrics through the API server aggregator.
* **[alpha]** The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now supports scaling on multiple, custom metrics.
* Cluster Autoscaler publishes its status to kube-system/cluster-autoscaler-status ConfigMap.
* Cluster Autoscaler can continue operations while some nodes are broken or unready.

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.12.5 ([#77063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77063), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
    *  - https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.12.5 
    *  - https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.12.4



# v1.12.8

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

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.13.4 ([#77065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77065), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
    * https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.13.4 
    * https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.13.3

### Action Required

* Cluster Autoscaler version updated to 1.3.1. Release notes: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.3.1 ([#66123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66123), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
    * Default value for expendable pod priority cutoff in GCP deployment of Cluster Autoscaler changed from 0 to -10.

[SIG Autoscaling][] is responsible for autoscaling-related components,
such as the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Autoscaling continued to focus on stabilizing
features introduced in previous releases: the new version of the
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler API, which supports custom metrics, and
the Cluster Autoscaler, which provides improved performance and error reporting.

#### Cluster Autoscaling
* Cluster Autoscaler 0.6. More information available [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/README.md).

* cluster-autoscaler: Fix duplicate writing of logs. ([#45017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45017), [@MaciekPytel](https://github.com/MaciekPytel))

- Update Cluster Autoscaler version to 1.16.2 (CA release docs: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.16.2) ([#84038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84038), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))

* Cluster Autoscaler version updated to 1.1.3. Release notes: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.1.3 ([#65809](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65809), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))

([#58298](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58298), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

* Cluster Autoscaler has been updated to Version 1.2.0, which includes fixes around GPUs and base image change. See [https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.1.2)1.2.0for details. ([#60842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60842), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))...

- Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.18.0; changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.18.0 ([#89095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89095), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk)) [SIG Autoscaling and Cluster Lifecycle]


# v1.18.0-beta.2