## **Notable Features**

- [KCCM - service controller]: enabled connection draining for terminating pods upon node downscale by the cluster autoscaler. This is done by not reacting to the taint used by the cluster autoscaler to indicate that the node is going away soon, thus keeping the node referenced by the load balancer until the VM has been completely deleted. ([#115204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115204), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

* Correct the way we reset containers and pods in kubeadm via crictl ([#63862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63862), [@runcom](https://github.com/runcom))

- Fixed admission metrics in seconds. ([#72343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72343), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
- When a watch is closed by an HTTP2 load balancer and we are told to go away, skip printing the message to stderr by default.
- Spedup kubectl by >10 when calling out to kube-apiserver for discovery information. ([#73345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73345), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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- Kubeadm: apply `second stage` of the plan to migrate kubeadm away from the usage of the word `master` in labels and taints. For new clusters, the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` will no longer be added to control plane nodes, only the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane` will be added. For clusters...

This means entire plugins can be enabled and disabled without having to manually edit individual extension point settings.
These extension points can now be abstracted away due to their irrelevance for most users.

### CSI Migration updates

- Kubelet can now parse PEM file containing both TLS certificate and key in arbitrary order. Previously key was always required to be first. ([#69536](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69536), [@awly](https://github.com/awly))
- Code-gen: Removed lowercasing for project imports ([#68484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68484), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant))

- Fix kubelet startup failure when using ExecPlugin in kubeconfig ([#66395](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66395), [@awly](https://github.com/awly))
- kubectl: fixes a panic displaying pods with nominatedNodeName set ([#66406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66406), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* `metrics-server` is now the recommended way to provide the resource
  metrics API. Deploy `metrics-server` as an add-on in the same way that you deploy Heapster.

##### Cluster Autoscaler

* Cluster autoscaler is now GA
* Cluster support size is increased to 1000 nodes