* kubectl built for darwin from darwin now enables cgo to use the system-native C libraries for DNS resolution. Cross-compiled kubectl (e.g. from an official kubernetes release) still uses the go-native netgo DNS implementation.  ([#64219](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64219), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))

  - 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
  set to true, the system will guarantee scheduling and admission of pods with

- Made decoding etcd's response respect the timeout context.
   ([#121815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121815), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

* The IP address and port for kube-proxy metrics server is now configurable via flag `--metrics-bind-address` ([#48625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48625), [@mrhohn](https://github.com/mrhohn))
  * Special notice for kube-proxy in 1.7+ (including 1.7.0):
    * Healthz server (/healthz) will be served on 0.0.0.0:10256 by default.
    * Metrics server (/metrics and /proxyMode) will be served on 127.0.0.1:10249 by default.

CSI Migration enables the replacement of existing in-tree storage plugins such as `kubernetes.io/gce-pd` or `kubernetes.io/aws-ebs` with a corresponding CSI driver.
If CSI Migration is working properly, Kubernetes end users shouldn’t notice a difference.
After migration, Kubernetes users may continue to rely on all the functionality of in-tree storage plugins using the existing interface.

  If any `PreBindPreFlight` returned `Success`, the scheduler put NominatedNodeName to the pod 
  so that other components (such as the cluster autoscaler) could notice the pod was going to be bound to the node. ([#133021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133021), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

consistency and security, Kubernetes performs pruning, or the automatic removal of unknown fields in objects sent to a Kubernetes API. An "unknown" field is one that is not specified in the OpenAPI validation schema. This behavior is already in place for native resources and ensures only data structures specified by the CRD developer are persisted to etcd. It will be available as a beta feature in Kubernetes 1.15.

Pruning is activated by setting `spec.preserveUnknownFields: false` in the Cu...

    * [StorageOS](http://www.storageos.com) can be used as a storage provider for Kubernetes.  With StorageOS, capacity from local or attached storage is pooled across the cluster, providing converged infrastructure for cloud-native applications.
* CRI has been moved to package `pkg/kubelet/apis/cri/v1alpha1/runtime`. ([#47113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47113), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Cluster Autoscaler 1.0.0 ([#53005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53005), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Remove the --docker-exec-handler flag. Only native exec handler is supported. ([#52287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52287), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.