* kubeadm now uses an upgraded API version for the configuration file, `kubeadm.k8s.io/v1alpha2`. kubeadm in v1.11 will still be able to read `v1alpha1` configuration, and will automatically convert the configuration to `v1alpha2`, both internally and when storing the configuration in the ConfigMap in the cluster. ([#63788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63788), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

  - support for the `v1alpha3` configuration file format is deprecated and will be removed in 1.14. Use `kubeadm config migrate` to migrate `v1alpha3` configuration files to `v1beta1`, which provides improvements in image repository management, addons configuration, and other areas. The documentation for `v1beta1` can be found here: https://godoc.org/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta1...

  * [Nodes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#node-affinity-beta-feature) and [pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#inter-pod-affinity-and-anti-affinity-beta-feature) now support affinity and anti-affinity
  * Advanced scheduling can be performed with [taints and tolerations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#taints-and-tolerations-beta-feature)

- Fixed the ability to set the `resolvConf` option in drop-in kubelet configuration files, which validates that drop-in kubelet configuration files are in a supported version. ([#127421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127421), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Kubeadm: CoreDNS supports migration of the kube-dns configuration to CoreDNS configuration when upgrading the service discovery from kube-dns to CoreDNS as part of Beta.  ([#58828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58828), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))

*   The admission webhook configurations API, part of the admissionregistration API, is now at v1beta1. Delete any existing webhook configurations before you upgrade, and update your configuration files to use the latest API. For this and the previous change, see also [the documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/extensible-admission-controllers/#exter...

pod priority and creation of PriorityClasses ([user doc](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/))([design doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/scheduling/pod-priority-api.md))

* [alpha] This version now supports priority-based preemption of pods ([user doc](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/))([design doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/c...

- kube-apiserver: Authentication configuration for mutating and validating admission webhooks referenced from an `--admission-control-config-file` can now be specified with `apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1, kind: WebhookAdmissionConfiguration`. ([#85138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85138), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Added configuration for AWS endpoint fine control: ([#72245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72245), [@ampsingram](https://github.com/ampsingram))

- Kube-scheduler: a plugin enabled in a v1beta2 configuration file takes precedence over the default configuration for that plugin. This simplifies enabling default plugins with custom configuration without needing to explicitly disable those default plugins. ([#99582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99582), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))