### Serverside Apply - Beta 2

*   The Go version was upgraded from go1.8.3 to **go1.9.2** ([#51375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51375),[ @cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))
    *   The minimum supported go version bumps to 1.9.1. ([#55301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55301),[ @xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

- Rev the Azure SDK for networking to 2017-06-01 ([#61955](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61955))
- Es-image has been upgraded to Elasticsearch 6.3.2 ([#67484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67484))
- metrics-server has been upgraded to v0.3.1. ([#68746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68746))
- GLBC has been updated to v1.2.3 ([#66793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66793))

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

* fix smb mount issue ([#65751](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65751), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

- Kibana has been upgraded to v6.6.1. ([#71251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71251))
- CAdvisor has been updated to v0.33.1 ([#75140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75140))
- fluentd-gcp-scaler is unchanged at v0.5.0 since Kubernetes 1.13 ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837))

- Added dynamic shared informers to write generic, non-generated controllers ([#69308](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69308), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))
- Upgraded to etcd 3.3 client ([#69322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69322), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Kibana has been upgraded to v6.6.1. ([#71251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71251))
- CAdvisor has been updated to v0.33.2. ([#76291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76291))
- Fluentd-gcp-scaler has been upgraded to v0.5.2. ([#76762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76762))

* **Taints**
  * You will need to use `kubectl taint` to re-create all of your taints after kubectl and the master are upgraded to 1.6. Between the time the master is upgraded to 1.6 and when you do this, your existing taints will have no effect.