## **Notable Features**

Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo. Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)

## Kubefed

      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver-2)
      - [kube-scheduler:](#kube-scheduler-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy-1)
      - [Features graduated to beta:](#features-graduated-to-beta)
      - [Features graduated to GA:](#features-graduated-to-ga)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
      - [Metrics:](#metrics)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-1)

    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [Autoscaling](#autoscaling)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
    - [OpenStack](#openstack)
    - [Scheduling](#scheduling)
  - [Notable Features](#notable-features)
    - [Workloads API (apps/v1beta2)](#workloads-api-appsv1beta2)
      - [API Object Additions and Migrations](#api-object-additions-and-migrations)
      - [Behavioral Changes](#behavioral-changes)

#### Continuous Improvement
- Project sustainability is not just about features. Many SIGs have been working on  improving test coverage, ensuring the basics stay reliable, and stability of the core feature set and working on maturing existing features and cleaning up the backlog.

#### Extensibility

    - [SIG-storage](#sig-storage)
    - [SIG-vmware](#sig-vmware)
    - [SIG-windows](#sig-windows)
  - [Action Required](#action-required-1)
  - [Deprecations and removals](#deprecations-and-removals)
  - [New Features](#new-features)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Apps](#sig-apps)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)

- Introduced the Node Declared Features capability (alpha), which includes:
  - A new `Node.Status.DeclaredFeatures` field for publishing node-specific features.
  - A `component-helpers` library for feature registration and inference.
  - A `NodeDeclaredFeatures` scheduler plugin to match pods with nodes that provide required features.

    - [SIG Service Catalog](#sig-service-catalog)
    - [SIG Storage](#sig-storage)
    - [SIG UI](#sig-ui)
    - [SIG VMWare](#sig-vmware)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows)
  - [New Features](#new-features)
  - [Release Notes From SIGs](#release-notes-from-sigs)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth-1)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG AWS](#sig-aws-1)

## Notable Features
Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from the [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md).

      - [Removed Deprecations](#removed-deprecations)
      - [Graduated to Stable/GA](#graduated-to-stablega)
      - [Graduated to Beta](#graduated-to-beta)
    - [New alpha features](#new-alpha-features)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Apps](#sig-apps)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth-1)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)

  - [Deprecations and Removals](#deprecations-and-removals)
  - [Metrics Changes](#metrics-changes)
    - [Added metrics](#added-metrics)
    - [Deprecated/changed metrics](#deprecatedchanged-metrics)
  - [Notable Features](#notable-features)
    - [Stable](#stable)
    - [Beta](#beta)
    - [CLI Improvements](#cli-improvements)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)