- Using `--log-file` is known to be problematic in 1.15. This presents as things being logged multiple times to the same file. The behaviour and details of this issue, as well as some preliminary attempts at fixing it are documented [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/78734#issuecomment-501372131)

## Urgent Upgrade Notes

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

#### API Machinery

 - [Action...

- The cluster addon for dashboard was removed. To install dashboard, see [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/blob/master/docs/user/README.md). ([#107481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107481), [@shu-mutou](https://github.com/shu-mutou))

    * A new service spec field `Service.Spec.IPFamily` has been added. The default of this field is family of (first service cidr in --service-cluster-ip-range flag). The value is defaulted as described above  once the feature gate is turned on. Here are the possible values for this field:
    * 2. IPv4: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv4` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).

  check for stale rules on every sync. (In smaller clusters, it will still
  remove unused rules immediately once they are no longer used.)

  (The threshold for "large" used here is currently "1000 endpoints" but
  this is subject to change.) ([#110334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110334), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

#### Cluster Autoscaling
* Cluster Autoscaler 0.6. More information available [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/README.md).

### **Storage**

used to recover from node failure (see https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/16/kubernetes-1-28-non-graceful-node-shutdown-ga/). If enabled and a pod must be forcibly terminated at the risk of corruption, then the appropriate VolumeAttachment object (see here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/config-and-storage-resources/volume-attachment-v1/) must be deleted. ([#120344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120344), [@rohitssingh](https://github.com/rohitssingh)) [SIG API Machinery,...

  linking directly to the master branch. This ensures that links reference a
  specific point in time, rather than a document that may change over time.
  
  See here for guidance on getting permanent links to files: https://help.github.com/en/articles/getting-permanent-links-to-files
  
  Please use the following format for linking documentation:
  - [KEP]: <link>
  - [Usage]: <link>

### SIG-cluster-lifecycle

In 1.12, SIG Cluster lifecycle has focused on improving the user experience in kubeadm, by fixing a number of bugs and adding some new important features.

Here is a list of some of the changes that have been made to kubeadm:

- Kubeadm internal config has been promoted to `v1alpha3`:
  - `v1alpha1` has been removed.