* You can find the PodSpec tolerations that were created as annotations (if any) in a controller definition by doing `kubectl get <controller kind> <controller name> -o yaml` and looking for the "Annotation" section with the annotation key `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/tolerations` (This will work whether you are running Kubernetes 1.5 or 1.6).

  Two annotations have been promoted to API fields:

  * Service.Spec.ExternalTrafficPolicy was 'service.beta.kubernetes.io/external-traffic' annotation.

  * Service.Spec.HealthCheckNodePort was 'service.beta.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-nodeport' annotation.

### **Node Components**
#### Container Runtime Interface

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#83446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83446), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

*   You can now override the health check parameters for AWS ELBs by specifying annotations on the corresponding service. The new annotations are: `healthy-threshold`, `unhealthy-threshold`, `timeout`, `interval`. The prefix for all annotations is  `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-`. ([#56024](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56024),[ @dimpavloff](https://github.com/dimpavloff))...

([#61884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61884), [#62707](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62707), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* StatefulSet: The deprecated `pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized` annotation for interrupting the StatefulSet Pod management is now ignored. StatefulSets with this annotation set to `true` or with no value will behave just as they did in previous versions. Dormant StatefulSets with the annotation set to `false` will become active after upgrading.

- New `service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode` annotation has been introduced as a replacement for the `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation.
  - `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation has been deprecated.

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

- kubeadm: all master components are now exclusively relying on the `PriorityClassName` pod spec for annotating them as cluster critical components. Since `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod` annotation is no longer supported by Kubernetes 1.14 this annotation is no longer added to master components. ([#73857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73857), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))