- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4954: Drop support for using gh: as a host (e.g. gh:kubernetes-sigs/kustomize). We were unable to find any usage of or basis for this and believe it may have been targeting a custom gitconfig shorthand syntax. ([#116598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116598), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG CLI]

- Explicitly pass `KUBE_BUILD_CONFORMANCE=y` in `package-tarballs` to reenable building the conformance tarballs. ([#100571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100571), [@puerco](https://github.com/puerco))

* api-server provides specific events when unable to repair a service cluster ip or node port ([#54304](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54304), [@frodenas](https://github.com/frodenas))

he said do.

  Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she
had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing
was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable
to move.  She soon got it out again, and put it right; `not that
it signifies much,' she said to herself; `I should think it
would be QUITE as much use in the trial one way up as the other.'

- The `kubectl debug` is able to create ephemeral containers in pre-1.22 clusters with the `EphemeralContainers` feature enabled. Note that versions of kubectl prior to 1.22 are unable to create ephemeral containers in clusters version 1.22 and greater due to an API change. ([#103292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103292), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

* Kubeadm will now include the missing certificate key if it is unable to find an expected key during `kubeadm join` when used with the `--experimental-control-plane` flow ([#76636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76636), [@mdaniel](https://github.com/mdaniel))

* Bug fix: Clusters with GCE feature 'DiskAlphaAPI' enabled were unable to dynamically provision GCE PD volumes. ([#59447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59447), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))



# v1.8.9