- A new kubelet command line option, `--reserved-cpus`, is introduced to explicitly define the CPU list that will be reserved for system. For example, if `--reserved-cpus=0,1,2,3` is specified, then cpu 0,1,2,3 will be reserved for the system.  On a system with 24 CPUs, the user may specify `isolcpus=4-23` for the kernel option and use CPU 4-23 for the user containers. ([#83592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83592), [@jianzzh...

- When the kubelet fails to assign CPUs to a Pod because there less available CPUs than the Pod requests, the error message changed from

The Resource Management Working Group graduated three features to beta in the 1.10 release.  First, [CPU Manager](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-management-policies/), which allows users to request exclusive CPU cores.  This helps performance in a variety of use-cases, including network latency sensitive applications, as well as applications that benefit from CPU cache residency.  Next, [Huge Pages](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-hugepages/scheduling-hugepages/),...

- Moved the CPU Manager static policy option `strict-cpu-reservation` to the GA version. ([#134388](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134388), [@psasnal](https://github.com/psasnal))

- Added a kubelet metrics to report informations about the cpu pools managed by cpumanager when the static policy is in use. ([#127506](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127506), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixes regression in CPUManager that caused freeing of exclusive CPUs at incorrect times ([#90377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90377), [@cbf123](https://github.com/cbf123)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Node]

- github.com/jimstudt/http-authentication: [3eca13d](https://github.com/jimstudt/http-authentication/tree/3eca13d)
- github.com/klauspost/cpuid: [v1.2.0](https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid/tree/v1.2.0)
- github.com/kr/logfmt: [b84e30a](https://github.com/kr/logfmt/tree/b84e30a)
- github.com/kylelemons/godebug: [d65d576](https://github.com/kylelemons/godebug/tree/d65d576)

- The CPU Manager will now validate the state of the node,  enabling Kubernetes to maintain the CPU topology even if resources change. ([#66718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66718), [@ipuustin](https://github.com/ipuustin))

- github.com/kisielk/errcheck: [v1.2.0](https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck/tree/v1.2.0)
- github.com/kisielk/gotool: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/kisielk/gotool/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/klauspost/cpuid: [v1.2.0](https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid/tree/v1.2.0)
- github.com/kr/pty: [v1.1.5](https://github.com/kr/pty/tree/v1.1.5)
- github.com/kylelemons/godebug: [d65d576](https://github.com/kylelemons/godebug/tree/d65d576)

- Add a new `distribute-cpus-across-numa` option to the static `CPUManager` policy. When enabled, this will trigger the `CPUManager` to evenly distribute CPUs across NUMA nodes in cases where more than one NUMA node is required to satisfy the allocation. ([#105631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105631), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))...