*   Pass all Kubernetes 1.9 e2e test, node e2e test and CRI validation tests.
    *   [Kube-up.sh integration](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd/blob/master/docs/kube-up.md).
    *   [Full crictl integration including CRI verbose option.](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd/blob/master/docs/crictl.md)
    *   Integration with cadvisor to provide better summary api support.

    * Remove deprecated vagrant kube-up.sh. ([#58118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58118),[@roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))

New features include improved integration between the Keystone service and Kubernetes RBAC, and a number of stability and compatibility improvements across the entire provider code-base.

### SIG Scheduling

* The [`kubefed` federation bootstrap tool](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/federation/set-up-cluster-federation-kubefed/) has also graduated to beta.
* Interaction with container runtimes is now through the CRI interface, enabling easier integration of runtimes with the kubelet. Docker remains the default runtime via Docker-CRI (which moves to beta).
  * **WARNING:** A [known issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44041)

### SIG AWS

In v1.13 we worked on tighter integrations of Kubernetes API objects with AWS services. These include three out-of-tree alpha feature releases:

1) Alpha for AWS ALB (Application Load Balancer) integration to Kubernetes Ingress resources.
2) Alpha for CSI specification 0.3 integration to AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)

resources such as secrets, a mechanism to store resource encryption keys in external Key Management Systems (KMS) was introduced. This complements the original file-based storage and allows integration with multiple KMS. A Google Cloud KMS plugin was added and will be usable once the Google side of the integration is complete.

* Websocket requests may now authenticate to the API server by passing a bearer token in a websocket subprotocol of the form `base64url.bearer.authorization.k8s....

- Added kubelet support for systemd watchdog integration. With this enabled, systemd can automatically recover a hung kubelet. ([#127566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127566), [@zhifei92](https://github.com/zhifei92)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]

- Replaced deprecated package `k8s.io/utils/pointer` with `k8s.io/utils/ptr` for ./test/integration. ([#132762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132762), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs))

- Removed legacy cloud provider integration code (undoing a previous reverted commit). ([#124886](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124886), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Release]

### API Change

* [alpha] Adds support of container metrics in CRI ([docs PR](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/742)) ([kubernetes/features#290](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/290))