you must keep the following in mind:

* **JSON configuration files that contain fields with incorrect case will no longer be valid. You must correct these files before upgrading.** When specifying keys in JSON resource definitions during direct API server communication, the keys are case-sensitive. A bug introduced in Kubernetes 1.8 caused the API server to accept a request with incorrect case and coerce it to correct case, but this behaviour has been fixed in 1.11 and the API server...

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94988), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

    * If you are running E2E tests which require SSH keys and you utilize environment variables to override their location, you may need to modify the environment variable set. On all providers the environment variable override can now be either an absolute path to the key or a relative path (relative to ~/.ssh). Specifically the changes are:
    *  - Created new GCE_SSH_KEY allowing specification of SSH keys for gce, gke, and kubemark.

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

- kubeadm still generates RSA keys when deploying a node, but also accepts ECDSA
keys if they already exist in the directory specified in the `--cert-dir` option. ([#76390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76390), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))

constant key value. For non-constant map keys, see the section on
<a href="#Order_of_evaluation">evaluation order</a>.
</p>

<p>
For struct literals the following rules apply:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>A key must be a field name declared in the struct type.
	</li>
	<li>An element list that does not contain any keys must
	    list an element for each struct field in the

  
  When the feature gate is enabled, kubelet ignores errors that happens during setting the following sysctl values: `vm.overcommit_memory`, `vm.panic_on_oom`, `kernel.panic`, `kernel.panic_on_oops`, `kernel.keys.root_maxkeys`, `kernel.keys.root_maxbytes`. (These sysctl values for the host, not for the containers)
  
  kubelet also ignores an error during opening `/dev/kmsg`.

### ConfigMap
* Volumes and environment variables populated from ConfigMap and Secret objects can now tolerate the named source object or specific keys being missing, by adding `optional: true` to the volume or environment variable source specifications. ([#39981](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39981), [@fraenkel](https://github.com/fraenkel))

- Kubeadm now warns (instead of error out) on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94988), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled `PodDisruptionConditions`
  by default, that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting
  pods that contained duplicated field keys (environmental variables with repeated keys or
  container ports). ([#121103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121103), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))