### SIG-windows

SIG Windows focused on stability and reliability of our existing feature set. We primarily fixed bugs as we march towards a near future stable release.

## Action Required

- etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13.

- Promoted to conformance a test that verified that `Services` only forward traffic on the port and protocol specified. ([#120069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120069), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Use online nodes instead of possible nodes when discovering available NUMA nodes ([#83196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83196), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))
- Use IPv4 in wincat port forward. ([#83036](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83036), [@liyanhui1228](https://github.com/liyanhui1228))

images. The old registry (`k8s.gcr.io`) will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future, but the new name should perform better because it frontends equivalent mirrors in other clouds.  Please point your clusters to the new registry going forward. \n\nAdmission/Policy integrations that have an allowlist of registries need to include `registry.k8s.io` alongside `k8s.gcr.io`.\nAir-gapped environments and image garbage-collection configurations will need to update to pre-pull and preserve required...

- Kubectl port-forward service will now properly exit when the attached pod dies (#103526, @brianpursley) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubelet: fixes a file descriptor leak in log rotation (#106382, @rphillips) [SIG Node]