support the alpha `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/affinity` annotation on the Pod if you explicitly enable the alpha feature "AffinityInAnnotations", but it will be removed in a future release. When you upgrade to 1.6, if you have not enabled the alpha feature, then the scheduler will use the `affinity` field in PodSpec and will ignore the annotation. If you have enabled the alpha feature, then the scheduler will use the `affinity` field in PodSpec if it is present, and otherwise will use the annotation....

#### kube-controller-manager:
- Azure service annotation service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-disable-tcp-reset has been deprecated. Its support would be removed in a future release. ([#88462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88462), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

#### kubelet:

    * validation schemata as an alpha feature, to be enabled via the "CustomResourcePublishOpenAPI" feature gate. Kubectl will validate client-side using those. Note that in
    * future, client-side validation in 1.14 kubectl against a 1.15 cluster will reject
    * unknown fields for CRDs with validation schema defined. 

- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.8.2 → v0.9.5](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/autorest/adal/v0.8.2...autorest/adal/v0.9.5)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/date: [v0.2.0 → v0.3.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/autorest/date/v0.2.0...autorest/date/v0.3.0)

* Pod priority can be specified ins PodSpec even when the feature is disabled, but it will be effective only when the feature is enabled. ([#59291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59291), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))
* kubeadm: Enable auditing behind a feature gate. ([#59067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59067), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

### Beta

- [cloudprovider-aws external v0.1.0](https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws/blob/master/changelogs/CHANGELOG-0.1.md)

### SIG Azure

For 1.13 SIG Azure was focused on adding additional Azure Disk support for Ultra SSD, Standard SSD, and Premium Azure Files. Azure Availability Zones and cross resource group nodes were also moved from Alpha to Beta in 1.13.

### SIG Big Data

* The dynamic Kubelet config feature is now beta, and the DynamicKubeletConfig feature gate is on by default. In order to use dynamic Kubelet config, ensure that the Kubelet's --dynamic-config-dir option is set.  ([#64275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64275), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

### Azure

SIG Azure worked on improvements in the cloud provider, including significant work on the Azure Load Balancer implementation.

### Cluster Lifecycle

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.
- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA: