- Unlocked the `CSIMigrationvSphere` feature gate. The change allow users to continue using the in-tree vSphere driver,pending a vSphere CSI driver release that has with GA support for Windows, XFS, and raw block access. ([#116396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116396), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42)) [SIG Storage]

* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))



# v1.12.5

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Downloads for v1.12.5

* Do not detach volume if mount in progress ([#71145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71145), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

   ([#125923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125923), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixed a bug where the pod(with regular init containers)'s phase was not pending when the regular init container had not finished running after a node restart. ([#126653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126653), [@zhifei92](https://github.com/zhifei92)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixed an issue where pods did not correctly have a pending phase after the node reboot. ([#128516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128516), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Pods that are known to the kubelet to have previously been Running should not revert to Pending state, the kubelet will now infer a termination. ([#102821](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102821), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

- Add SourceVolumeMode field to VolumeSnapshotContents. Documentation for this alpha feature is pending. ([#665](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/pull/665), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah))
- Update snapshotter module to v6 and client module to v5. Documentation for this alpha feature is pending. ([#670],(https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/pull/670), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah))

- Wait for all CRDs to show up in discovery endpoint before reporting readiness. ([#89145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89145), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery]
- When evicting, Pods in Pending state are removed without checking PDBs. ([#83906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83906), [@michaelgugino](https://github.com/michaelgugino)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node and Scheduling]

* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

* Fix ConfigMap for Windows Containers.
  ([#39373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39373),
  [@jbhurat](https://github.com/jbhurat))
* Fix the “pod rejected by kubelet may stay at pending forever” bug.
  (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37661),
  [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

### kube-controller-manager