* Get public IP for Azure vmss nodes. ([#68498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Deduplicate PATH items when reading plugins. ([#69170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69170), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))



# v1.12.0

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

## Downloads for v1.12.0

- Fixed file permission issues that happened during update of Secret/ConfigMap/projected volume when fsGroup is used. The problem caused a race condition where application gets intermittent permission denied error when reading files that were just updated, before the correct permissions were applied. ([#114728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114728), [@furkatgofurov7](https://github.com/furkatgofurov7)) [SIG Storage]

scalable and extensible alternative to the Endpoints API. EndpointSlices track IP addresses, ports, readiness, and topology information for Pods backing a Service.

In Kubernetes 1.19 this feature will be enabled by default with kube-proxy reading from EndpointSlices instead of Endpoints. Although this will mostly be an invisible change, it should result in noticeable scalability improvements in large clusters. It will also enable significant new features in future Kubernetes releases like...

    * PR [#593](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/593).
* Improve handling of custom classes for `Request`s and `APIRoute`s.
    * This helps to more easily solve use cases like:
        * Reading a body before and/or after a request (equivalent to a middleware).
        * Run middleware-like code only for a subset of *path operations*.