Please see the [Releases Page](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases) for older releases.

Release notes of older releases can be found in:
- [CHANGELOG-1.2.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.2.md)

## Changelog since v1.18.3

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in update/patch requests submitted by older API clients ([#92007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92007), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Feature

## Changelog since v1.17.6

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in update/patch requests submitted by older API clients ([#92008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92008), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Feature

* IPVS: Disable graceful termination for UDP traffic to solve issues with high number of UDP connections (DNS / syslog in particular) ([#77802](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77802), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

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- Fix an error when using external etcd but storing etcd certificates in the same folder with the same name used by kubeadm for local etcd certificates; for an older version of kubeadm, the workaround is to avoid file name used by kubeadm for local etcd. ([#80867](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80867), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))...

however, kubectl v1.21 and older do not support the new API for ephemeral containers.

- Kubeadm: do not check if the `/etc/kubernetes/manifests` folder is empty on joining worker nodes during preflight ([#104942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104942), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

 - The 'kubeadm config upload' command...

- VSphere: Fix regression during attach disk if datastore is within a storage folder or datastore cluster. ([#102999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102999), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._