- Introduced support for handling pod failures with respect to the configured pod failure policy rules. ([#111113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111113), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))
- Introduction of the `DisruptionTarget` pod condition type. Its `reason` field indicates the reason for pod termination:

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 
  restarting of "healthy" kube-apiserver instance(s) by kubelet. ([#101111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101111), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 
  restarting of "healthy" kube-apiserver instance(s) by kubelet. ([#101112](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101112), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

* Rescheduler is v0.4.0, compared with v0.3.1 in v1.10 ([#65454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65454))
* The validated docker versions are the same as for v1.10: 1.11.2 to 1.13.1 and 17.03.x (ref)
* The Go version is go1.10.2, as compared to go1.9.3 in v1.10. ([#63412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63412))