([#69099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69099), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

## Deprecations

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert` is deprecated and will be removed in v1.17.

## Deprecations and Removals

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.

- The following deprecated metrics are removed, please convert to the corresponding metrics:
  - The following replacement metrics are available from v1.14.0:
      - `rest_client_request_latency_seconds` -> `rest_client_request_duration_seconds`

- kubectl
  - The `kubectl convert` command is deprecated and will be removed in a future release ([#70820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70820), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))

* 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))

- Kubectl-convert: Fix `no kind "Ingress" is registered for version` error ([#97754](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97754), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming))

- Fixed issue where `kubectl-convert` would fail when encountering resources that could not be converted to the specified api version. New behavior is to warn the user of the failed conversions and continue to convert the remaining resources. ([#117002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117002), [@gxwilkerson33](https://github.com/gxwilkerson33))

  - The `upstream` option is deprecated and ignored if included.
    ([#82127](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82127), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))

- kubectl

  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.

- Fix azure file migration issue ([#97877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97877), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Auth, Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix kubectl-convert import known versions ([#97754](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97754), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

* Allow drain --force to remove pods whose managing resource is deleted. ([#41864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41864), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))