* Stop using InfluxDB as default cluster monitoring ([#62328](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62328), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
    * InfluxDB cluster monitoring is deprecated and will be removed in v1.12

- kubelet v1.22.14
- kubelet v1.23.11
- kubelet v1.24.5
- kubelet v1.25.0


To upgrade, refer to this documentation _For core Kubernetes:_ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cluster-management/#upgrading-a-cluster 

### Detection

Kubernetes Audit logs may indicate if the user name was misspelled to bypass the restriction placed on which user is a pod allowed to run as.

Indian/Mayotte Indian/Reunion Iran Israel Jamaica Japan Kwajalein Libya MET MST MST7MDT Mexico/BajaNorte Mexico/BajaSur Mexico/General NZ NZ-CHAT Navajo PRC PST8PDT Pacific/Apia Pacific/Auckland Pacific/Bougainville Pacific/Chatham Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Easter Pacific/Efate Pacific/Enderbury Pacific/Fakaofo Pacific/Fiji Pacific/Funafuti Pacific/Galapagos Pacific/Gambier Pacific/Guadalcanal Pacific/Guam Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston Pacific/Kanton Pacific/Kiritimati Pacific/Kosrae Pacific/Kwajalein Pacific/Majuro...

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.12.5 ([#77063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77063), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
    *  - https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.12.5 
    *  - https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.12.4



# v1.12.8

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- 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)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Testing]

- E2e framework: the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint has been removed from the default value of `--non-blocking-taints` flag. You may need to set `--non-blocking-taints` explicitly if the cluster to be tested has nodes with the deprecated `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint. ([#118510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118510), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Testing]

- Kubeadm: stop applying the "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" taint to control plane nodes for new clusters. Remove the taint from existing control plane nodes during "kubeadm upgrade apply" ([#110095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110095), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]

### SIG Network

For 1.13, the areas of focus were in IPv6, DNS improvements and some smaller items:
CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests

- [`KT-58731`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58731) Fix failues in Mac tests in kt-master, kt-231-1.9.0 and kt-223-1.9.0
- [`KT-59248`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59248) Fix failures in Mac tests and Android Tests in kt-223-master and kt-231-master
- [`KT-58732`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58732) Run kt-master Mac tests on cloud Mac
- [`KT-57686`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57686) Fix KMM UI tests again

    * 4. Max 20 bit for range (min network bits `<v6>/108` or <v4>/12)
    * kube-controller-manager: convert service CIDR to list `--service-cluster-ip-range=<CIDR>,<CIDR>` and make sure `IPv6DualStack` feature flag is turned on. The flag is validated as above.
    * + to use: