* Implementers of the cloud provider interface will note the addition of a context to this interface. Trivial code modification will be necessary for a cloud provider to continue to compile. ([#59287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59287), [@cheftako](https://github.com/cheftako))
* /release-note-none ([#58264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58264), [@WanLinghao](https://github.com/WanLinghao))

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returns 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

* **[Pod priority and preemption](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/) is now enabled by default.** Note that this means that pods from *any* namespace can now request priority classes that compete with and/or cause preemption of critical system pods that are already running. If that is not desired, disable the PodPriority feature by setting `--featu...

  * You can remove the "old" taints (stored internally as annotations) at any time after the upgrade by doing `kubectl annotate nodes <node name> scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/taints-` (note the minus at the end, which means "delete the taint with this key")

    - [Feature](#feature-8)
    - [Design](#design-1)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-5)
- [v1.18.0-alpha.4](#v1180-alpha4)
  - [Important note about manual tag](#important-note-about-manual-tag)
- [v1.18.0-alpha.3](#v1180-alpha3)
  - [Downloads for v1.18.0-alpha.3](#downloads-for-v1180-alpha3)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-24)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-24)

- The example API server has renamed its `wardle.k8s.io` API group to `wardle.example.com` ([#81670](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81670), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- CRDs defaulting is promoted to GA. Note: the feature gate CustomResourceDefaulting will be removed in 1.18. ([#84713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84713), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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    * A sample DaemonSet to deploy Flexvolume drivers is now available.

* [prototype] Volume snapshots

  * You can now create a volume snapshot by calling the Kubernetes API.

  * Note that the prototype does not support quiescing before snapshot, so snapshots might be inconsistent.

* kubeadm: fixes error when upgrading from v1.13 to v1.14 clusters created with kubeadm v1.12. Please note that it is required to upgrade etcd during the final v1.13 to v1.14 upgrade. ([#75956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75956), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

  In addition, when this feature is enabled, the 'details' field of 'Status' from the LIST response
  includes information that identifies the corrupt object(s).
  NOTE: unsafe deletion ignores finalizer constraints, and skips precondition checks.
  WARNING: this may break the workload associated with the resource being unsafe-deleted, if it relies on