- Fix Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) issue where stale RemoteEndpoints remained
  when a Deployment was referenced by multiple Services due to premature clearing
  of the terminatedEndpoints map. ([#135172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135172), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

## 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))

* The OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin now requires `update` permission on the `finalizers` subresource of the referenced owner in order to set `blockOwnerDeletion` on an owner reference. ([#49133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49133), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Fix Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) issue where stale RemoteEndpoints remained
  when a Deployment was referenced by multiple Services due to premature clearing
  of the terminatedEndpoints map. ([#135170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135170), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

    specifically bugging me now because they make the action graph harder to
    analyze programmatically. By using aliases here, we would need to handle
    potentially aliased go_binary targets and dereference to the effective
    target.
  
    The comment references an issue with `pure = select(...)` which appears
    to be resolved considering this now builds.
  

### Other notable changes

* Fixed a regression where the kubelet would fail to update the ready status of pods. ([#86195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86195), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))
* Fix nil pointer dereference in azure cloud provider ([#85975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85975), [@ldx](https://github.com/ldx))

* Fixed a regression where the kubelet would fail to update the ready status of pods. ([#86191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86191), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))
* Fix nil pointer dereference in azure cloud provider ([#85975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85975), [@ldx](https://github.com/ldx))

### **Application Autoscaling**
#### Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

* The OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin now requires `update` permission on the `finalizers` subresource of the referenced owner in order to set `blockOwnerDeletion` on an owner reference. ([#49133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49133), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Fix kubelet restart unmounts volumes of running pods if the referenced PVC is being deleted by the user ([#130686](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130686), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Node, Storage and Testing]