- The `kubectl patch` command no longer exits with exit code 1 when a redundant patch results in a no-op ([#66725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66725), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

* Removed some redundant rules created by the iptables proxier to improve performance on systems with very many services. ([#57461](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57461), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

# Release 2.12.0

### Breaking Changes

*   Build, Compilation and Packaging

- Kube-proxy now supports DualStack feature with EndpointSlices and IPVS. ([#85246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85246), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))
- Remove redundant API validation when using Service Topology with externalTrafficPolicy=Local ([#85346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85346), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Added a redundant process to remove tracking finalizers from Pods that belong to Jobs. The process kicks in after the control plane marks a Job as finished. ([#119944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119944), [@Sharpz7](https://github.com/Sharpz7))

- Introduced new metrics removing the redundant subsystem in kube-apiserver pod logs metrics and deprecate the original ones:
  - kube_apiserver_pod_logs_pods_logs_backend_tls_failure_total becomes kube_apiserver_pod_logs_backend_tls_failure_total

  - Fix an error where existing nodes were not considered as destinations while finding place for pods in scale-down simulations
  - Remove redundant log lines and reduce severity around parsing kubeEnv
  - Don't treat nodes created by virtual kubelet as nodes from non-autoscaled node groups
  - Remove redundant logging around calculating node utilization
  - Add configurable `--network` and `--rm` flags for docker in `Makefile`

  `ServiceIPStaticSubrange`, and `EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition`. ([#117237](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117237), [@yulng](https://github.com/yulng))
- Removed `KUBECTL_EXPLAIN_OPENAPIV3` which is already redundant. ([#119286](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119286), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Optimized log output to avoid printing out redundant information of the pod. ([#124055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124055), [@yangjunmyfm192085](https://github.com/yangjunmyfm192085))

* 🌐 Add Ukrainian translation for `docs/uk/docs/tutorial/schema-extra-example.md`. PR [#13769](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/13769) by [@valentinDruzhinin](https://github.com/valentinDruzhinin).
* ✏️ Remove redundant words in docs/zh/docs/python-types.md. PR [#13774](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/13774) by [@CharleeWa](https://github.com/CharleeWa).