* When using client or server certificate rotation, the Kubelet will no longer wait until the initial rotation succeeds or fails before starting static pods.  This makes running self-hosted masters with rotation more predictable. ([#58930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58930), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

  * PodSecurityPolicy admission sets `podsecuritypolicy.admission.k8s.io/admit-policy` and `podsecuritypolicy.admission.k8s.io/validate-policy` annotations containing the name of the policy that allowed a pod to be admitted....

Prior to 1.17 and for existing nodes created by `kubeadm init` where kubelet client certificate rotation is desired, you must modify `/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf` to point to the PEM symlink for rotation:

* If the AppArmor feature gate is disabled, AppArmor-specific annotations in pod and pod templates are dropped when the object is created, and during update of objects that do not already contain AppArmor annotations, rather than triggering a validation error. ([#72655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72655), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

*   You can now override the health check parameters for AWS ELBs by specifying annotations on the corresponding service. The new annotations are: `healthy-threshold`, `unhealthy-threshold`, `timeout`, `interval`. The prefix for all annotations is  `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-`. ([#56024](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56024),[ @dimpavloff](https://github.com/dimpavloff))...

* Node affinity has moved from annotations to api fields in the pod spec.  Node affinity that is defined in the annotations will be ignored. ([#37299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37299), [@rrati](https://github.com/rrati))

* Fix overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
* API machinery's httpstream/spdy calls now support CIDR notation for NO_PROXY ([#54413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54413), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- Kubelet now exports a `server_expiration_renew_failure` and `client_expiration_renew_failure` metric counter if the certificate rotations cannot be performed. ([#84614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84614), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Node and Release]

 
## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- 'kubeadm: marked the sub-phase of ''init kubelet-finilize'' called ''experimental-cert-rotation''
  as deprecated and print a warning if it is used directly; it will be removed in
  a future release. Add a replacement sub-phase ''enable-client-cert-rotation''.' ([#124419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124419), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Reduced GCE log rotation check from 1 hour to every 5 minutes.  Rotation policy is unchanged (new day starts, log file size > 100MB). ([#76352](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76352), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))