- Kubelet: a "maxParallelImagePulls" field can now be specified in the kubelet configuration file to control how many image pulls the kubelet can perform in parallel. ([#115220](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115220), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Scalability]

In Kubernetes 1.18, there are two significant additions to Ingress: A new `pathType` field and a new `IngressClass` resource. The `pathType` field allows specifying how paths should be matched. In addition to the default `ImplementationSpecific` type, there are new `Exact` and `Prefix` path types. 

  - Added user-owned fields in `ResourceClaim` to specify resource requirements against each device capacity.
  - Added scheduler-owned field in `ResourceClaim.Status` to specify how much device capacity is reserved for a specific request.

    * 2. IPv4: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv4` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * 2. IPv6: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv6` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * Notes (v1.16):
    * 1. IPVS is the only proxy supported (as of v1.16 ) by Dualstack.

  Please see [the KEP](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/1710-selinux-relabeling#story-3-cluster-upgrade) how we expect to warn users before any SELinux behavior changes and how they can opt-out before. Note that this field and feature gate is useful only with clusters that run with SELinux enabled. No action is required on clusters without SELinux. ([#127981](https://github.com/kubernetes...

- A new metric `lifecycle_handler_sleep_terminated_total` is added to record how many times LifecycleHandler sleep got unexpectedly terminated. ([#122456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122456), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

Volume operations. Before this change all API calls had to fetch key/value stored in secret and use it to authenticate/authorize these operations. With this change API calls receive key/value as a input parameter so they not need to know where and how credentials were stored and fetched. Main goal was to make these API calls CO (Container Orchestrator) agnostic.  ([#60118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60118), [@sbezverk](https://github.com/sbezverk))

* StorageOS volume...

  Depending on the value returned from QueueingHintFn, the scheduling queue changes how it queues each Pod:
  - if more than one QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately, it queues Pod to activeQ.

- Implemented validation for `NodeSelectorRequirement` values in Kubernetes when creating pods. ([#128212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128212), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps and Scheduling]

Kubernetes 1.11 also makes it easier to see what's happening, as audit events can now be annotated with information about how an API request was handled: