- The server-side apply feature is now beta ([#81956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81956), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))
- Server-side apply will now use the openapi provided in the CRD validation field to help figure out how to correctly merge objects and update ownership. ([#77354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77354), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))

    * If the serialization type is 'application/json':
    * If serialization fails, and the original status code was an failure (e.g. 4xx or 5xx), the original status code will be returned.

The flag determines whether pods in a terminal state are displayed. It will be inert in 1.11 and removed in a future release. ([#60210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60210), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* The ability to use the insecure HTTP port of kube-controller-manager and cloud-controller-manager has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. Use `--secure-port` and `--bind-address` instead. ([#59582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59582),...

    *   Best practice for version 1.9 and future versions is to explicitly set a cloud-provider. See [the documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/scratch/#cloud-providers)
*   The kubeadm `--skip-preflight-checks` flag is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

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        * `beta.kubernetes.io/instance-type`
        * `beta.kubernetes.io/os`
        * `beta.kubernetes.io/arch`
        * `failure-domain.kubernetes.io/zone`
        * `failure-domain.kubernetes.io/region`
        * `failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone`
        * `failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region`
        * `[*.]kubelet.kubernetes.io/*`
        * `[*.]node.kubernetes.io/*`

  - The `--containerized` flag is deprecated and will be removed in a future release ([#74267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74267), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- hyperkube
  - The `--make-symlinks` flag is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. ([#74975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74975), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
- API

* fix azure disk mount failure on coreos and some other distros ([#54334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54334), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix for service controller so that it won't retry on doNotRetry service update failure. ([#54184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54184), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

### Kubernetes API Reference Documentation

  - Apply toleration for a new, future taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" to the kubeadm CoreDNS / kube-dns managed manifests. Note that this taint is not yet applied to kubeadm control-plane nodes.
  - Please adapt your workloads to tolerate the same future taint preemptively.