- E2e framework: the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint has been removed from the default value of `--non-blocking-taints` flag. You may need to set `--non-blocking-taints` explicitly if the cluster to be tested has nodes with the deprecated `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint. ([#118510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118510), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Testing]

- 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))...

### kubeadm
* A new label and taint is used for marking the master. The label is `node-role.kubernetes.io/master=""` and the taint has the effect `NoSchedule`. Tolerate the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master="":NoSchedule` taint to schedule a workload on the master (a networking DaemonSet for example).
* The kubelet API is now secured, only cluster admins are allowed to access it.

- [v1.7.0-rc.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v170-rc1)
- [v1.7.0-beta.2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v170-beta2)
- [v1.7.0-beta.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v170-beta1)
- [v1.7.0-alpha.4](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v170-alpha4)

- ReplicaSets and Deployments should always count `.status.availableReplicas` at the correct time without a delay. This results in faster reconciliation of Deployment conditions and faster, unblocked Deployment rollouts. ([#132121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132121), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG Apps]

- Send bookmark right now after sending all items in watchCache store ([#127012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127012), [@Chaunceyctx](https://github.com/Chaunceyctx)) [SIG API Machinery]

  - `read_vs_write_request_count_watermarks` is removed. ([#110104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110104), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation...

- Pod status updates faster when reacting on probe results. The first readiness probe will be called faster when startup probes succeeded, which will make Pod status as ready faster. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

a critical security issue in the Kubernetes API Server, is resolved in v1.13.0 (and in [v1.10.11](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.10.md/#v11011), [v1.11.5](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.11.md/#v1115), and [v1.12.3](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.12.md/#v1123)). We recommend all clusters running previous versions update to one of these releases immediately. See issue...

- Scheduler changes its logic of calculating `evaluatedNodes` from "contains the number of nodes that filtered out by PreFilterResult and Filter plugins" to "the number of nodes filtered out by Filter plugins only". ([#124735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124735), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- Services implemented a field selector for the ClusterIP and Type fields.