- Kubectl: `-o` can now be used as a shortcut for `--output` in `kubectl explain <resource> --output plaintext-openapiv2` ([#127869](https:/...

[https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213) sig-cluster-lifecycle has decided to phase out the cluster/ directory over the next couple of releases in favor of deployment automations maintained outside of the core repo and outside of kubernetes orgs. ([@kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/teams/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc))

    * Remove deprecated ContainerVM support from GCE kube-up.  ([#58247...

* 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

pkg net/http, func NewRequestWithContext(context.Context, string, string, io.Reader) (*Request, error)
pkg net/http, method (Header) Clone() Header
pkg net/http, method (*Request) Clone(context.Context) *Request
pkg net/http, method (*Transport) Clone() *Transport
pkg net/http, type Server struct, BaseContext func(net.Listener) context.Context

## Changelog since v1.11.1

### 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.

    /** The key of the message: Search Options */
    public static final String LABELS_search_options = "{labels.search_options}";

    /** The key of the message: Close */
    public static final String LABELS_search_options_close = "{labels.search_options_close}";

    /** The key of the message: Clear */

pkg debug/pe, const IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_RISCV32 ideal-int #54251
pkg debug/pe, const IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_RISCV64 = 20580 #54251
pkg debug/pe, const IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_RISCV64 ideal-int #54251
pkg encoding/xml, method (*Encoder) Close() error #53346
pkg errors, func Join(...error) error #53435
pkg fmt, func FormatString(State, int32) string #51668
pkg go/ast, type File struct, FileEnd token.Pos #53202
pkg go/ast, type File struct, FileStart token.Pos #53202

pkg log/syslog (freebsd-arm64), func NewLogger(Priority, int) (*log.Logger, error)
pkg log/syslog (freebsd-arm64), method (*Writer) Alert(string) error
pkg log/syslog (freebsd-arm64), method (*Writer) Close() error
pkg log/syslog (freebsd-arm64), method (*Writer) Crit(string) error
pkg log/syslog (freebsd-arm64), method (*Writer) Debug(string) error
pkg log/syslog (freebsd-arm64), method (*Writer) Emerg(string) error

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- [KCCM - service controller]: enable connection draining for terminating pods upon node downscale by the cluster autoscaler. This is done by not reacting to the taint used by the cluster autoscaler to indicate that the node is going away soon, thus keeping the node referenced by the load balancer until the VM has been completely...