<code>'ä'</code> holds two bytes (<code>0xc3</code> <code>0xa4</code>) representing
a literal <code>a</code>-dieresis, U+00E4, value <code>0xe4</code>.
</p>

<p>
Several backslash escapes allow arbitrary values to be encoded as
ASCII text.  There are four ways to represent the integer value
as a numeric constant: <code>\x</code> followed by exactly two hexadecimal

SIG Windows is also including several addition to this release:
 - Direct Server Return (DSR) mode support, allowing large numbers of services to scale up efficiently
 - Windows containers  now honor CPU limits

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  | o add specification element to a field, this would be more a technical description of
  |   what is allowed in the field.
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  | o validators: there could be several levels of validation. Simple type validation could
  |   be done with a regex, but we need inter-field validation and rules which could be
  |   dealt with by something like drools.
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* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

  * [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): cri-o v1.10 updated CRI version to v1alpha2 and made several bug and stability fixes. [@mrunalp]
  * [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): frakti v1.10 implemented GCE Persistent Disk as a high performance volume, fixed several bugs, added ARM64 support, and passed all CRI validation conformance tests and node e2e conformance tests. [@resouer]

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- 'The `IPv6DualStack` feature gate for external cloud providers was removed.
  (The feature became GA in 1.23 and the gate was removed for all other
  components several releases ago.) If you were still manually
  enabling it you must stop now.' ([#116255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116255), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Migrate scheduling_queue.go to structured logging ([#98358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98358), [@tanjing2020](https://github.com/tanjing2020)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Several flags related to the deprecated dockershim which are present in the kubelet command line are now deprecated. ([#98730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98730), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Node]

  // (if supported in the current cloud) which routes to the same endpoints
  // as the clusterIP.
  // "ExternalName" aliases this service to the specified externalName.
  // Several other fields do not apply to ExternalName services.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#publishing-services-service-types
  // +optional
  optional string type = 4;

For the 1.13 release, SIG API Machinery is happy to announce that the [dry-run functionality](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#dry-run) is now beta.

### SIG Auth