- For the `InPlacePodVerticalScaling` feature, the API server will no longer set the resize status to `Proposed` upon receiving a resize request. ([#130574](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130574), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

- GCE Internal LoadBalancer sync loop will now release the ILB IP address upon sync failure. An error in ILB forwarding rule creation will no longer leak IP addresses. ([#97740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97740), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

	go func() {
		defer close(errCh)
		// Merge all entries from all disks.
		// We leave quorum at 1, since entries are already resolved to have the desired quorum.
		// mergeEntryChannels will close 'merged' channel upon completion or cancellation.
		errCh <- mergeEntryChannels(ctx, entries, merged, 1)
	}()

	return nil
}

// HealObjectFn closure function heals the object.

		}
		attempts++
		time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Int63n(int64(time.Second))))
	}
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	defer func() {
		if err != nil {
			// block and abort remote upload upon failure.
			attempts := 1
			for attempts <= 3 {
				actx, acancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Minute)
				aerr := c.AbortMultipartUpload(actx, bucket, object, uploadID)
				acancel()
				if aerr == nil {

	dstFilePath := pathJoin(filePath, xlStorageFormatFile)

	// Renaming xl.json to xl.meta should be fully synced to disk.
	defer func() {
		if err == nil && s.globalSync {
			// Sync to disk only upon success.
			globalSync()
		}
	}()

	if err = Rename(srcFilePath, dstFilePath); err != nil {
		switch {
		case isSysErrNotDir(err):
			return errFileNotFound
		case isSysErrPathNotFound(err):

- External credential provider plugins will now have their standard error output logged by kubelet upon failures. ([#117448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117448), [@cartermckinnon](https://github.com/cartermckinnon))

## Changelog since v1.12.6

### Other notable changes

* Kubelet won't evict a static pod with priority `system-node-critical` upon resource pressure. ([#74222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74222), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Kubelet terminates pods correctly upon restart, fixing an issue where pods may have not been fully terminated if the kubelet was restarted during pod termination. ([#117433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117433), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Node and...

- Kubeadm: perform pre-flight validation on host/node name upon `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join`, showing warnings on non-compliant names ([#99194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99194), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

* Bump GLBC version to 0.9.5 - fixes [loss of manually modified GCLB health check settings](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47559) upon upgrade from pre-1.6.4 to either 1.6.4 or 1.6.5. ([#47567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47567), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))