### Scalability

* Added the ability to limit the increase in apiserver memory usage when audit logging with buffering is enabled. ([#61118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61118), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

    - [CustomResourceDefinition OpenAPI Publishing](#customresourcedefinition-openapi-publishing)
  - [Cluster Lifecycle Stability and Usability Improvements](#cluster-lifecycle-stability-and-usability-improvements)
  - [Continued improvement of CSI](#continued-improvement-of-csi)
    - [Additional Notable Feature Updates](#additional-notable-feature-updates)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)

    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
    - [Additional changes](#additional-changes)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
  - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [General Fixes and Reliability](#general-fixes-and-reliability)
  - [Non-user-facing changes](#non-user-facing-changes)
- [v1.11.0-rc.3](#v1110-rc3)
  - [Downloads for v1.11.0-rc.3](#downloads-for-v1110-rc3)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-11)

- kube-proxy metrics are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#81626](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81626), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Change `pod_preemption_victims` metric from Gauge to Histogram. ([#83603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83603), [@Tabrizian](https://github.com/Tabrizian))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:

## External Dependencies

The Cluster API effort is currently undergoing a complete rehaul of the existing codebase, moving off Terraform and into using govmomi directly.

### SIG-windows

SIG Windows focused on stability and reliability of our existing feature set. We primarily fixed bugs as we march towards a near future stable release.

## Action Required

- etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13.

* **[beta]** Node Problem Detector is beta (v0.3.0) now. New
  features added into node-problem-detector:v0.3.0:
  - Add support for journald.
  - The ability to monitor any system daemon logs. Previously only kernel
    logs were supported.
  - The ability to be deployed and run as a native daemon.
* **[alpha]** Critical Pods: When feature gate "ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation" is

- Added ability for kubectl wait to wait on arbitary JSON path (#105776, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion`...