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 `--feature-gates=PodPriority=false` on the kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, and kubelet components before upgrading to 1.11. Disabling the PodPriority feature limits [critical pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/guaranteed-scheduling-critical-addon-pods/#marking-pod-as-critical-when-priorites-are-enabled)...

- The `system-node-critical` and `system-cluster-critical` priority classes are now limited to the `kube-system` namespace by the `PodPriority` admission plugin (matching changes in 1.11.1+). ([#65593](https://github.com/kubernetes/ku...

  - The `Cinder` and `ScaleIO` volume providers have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. ([#80099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80099), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
  - The GA `PodPriority` feature gate is now on by default and cannot be disabled. The feature gate will be removed in v1.18. ([#79262](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79262), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

- The following features are unconditionally enabled and the corresponding `--feature-gates` flags have been removed: `PodPriority`, `TaintNodesByCondition`, `ResourceQuotaScopeSelectors` and `ScheduleDaemonSetPods` ([#86210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86210), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness)) [SIG Apps and Scheduling]