* kube-apiserver: requests to endpoints handled by unavailable extension API servers (as indicated by an `Available` condition of `false` in the registered APIService) now return `503` errors instead of `404` errors. ([#58070](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58070), [@weekface](https://github.com/weekface))

- Static pods will be deleted gracefully. ([#98103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98103), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node]
- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

* Cluster Autoscaler 1.0.0 ([#53005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53005), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Remove the --docker-exec-handler flag. Only native exec handler is supported. ([#52287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52287), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

## Changelog since v1.13.0-beta.2

### Other notable changes

* CVE-2018-1002105: Fix critical security issue in kube-apiserver upgrade request proxy handler ([#71411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71411), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Added `auditAnnotations` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy`, enabling CEL to be used to add audit annotations to request audit events.
  Added `validationActions` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding`, enabling validation failures to be handled by any combination of the warn, audit and deny enforcement actions. ([#115973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115973), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* GCE: Bump GLBC version to [0.9.7](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/releases/tag/0.9.7). ([#53625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53625), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* kubeadm 1.8 now properly handles upgrades from to 1.7.x to newer release in 1.7 branch ([#53338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53338), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- Kube-proxy handles Terminating EndpointSlices conditions and enables zero downtime deployments for Services with ExternalTrafficPolicy=Local author: @andrewsykim ([#117718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117718), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG...

- Fix EndpointSlice controller race condition and ensure that it handles external changes to EndpointSlices. ([#85703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85703), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Fix a race in the timeout handler that could lead to kube-apiserver crashes ([#108455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108455), [@Argh4k](https://github.com/Argh4k))

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