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* **[alpha]** New Bootstrap Token authentication and management method. Works well with kubeadm. kubeadm now supports managing tokens, including time based expiration, after the cluster...

  Depending on the value returned from QueueingHintFn, the scheduling queue changes how it queues each Pod:
  - if more than one QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately, it queues Pod to activeQ.
  - If no QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately and more than one plugin returns QueueAfterBackoff, it queues Pod to backoffQ if Pod is backing off, or to activeQ if Pod's backoff has already finished.

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  - apiserver_flowcontrol_current_r: R(the time of the last change in state of the queues)
  - apiserver_flowcontrol_dispatch_r: R(the time of the latest request dispatch)
  - apiserver_flowcontrol_latest_s: S(the request last dispatched) = R(when that request starts executing in the virtual world)
  - apiserver_flowcontrol_next_s_bounds: min and max next S among non-empty queues

- Scheduler: added metrics to record the number of pending pods in different queues ([#75501](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75501), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Refactored `test/e2e/framework` so that the core framework is smaller. Optional functionality like resource monitoring, log size monitoring, metrics gathering and debug information dumping must be imported by specific e2e test suites. Init packages are provided which can be imported to re-enable the functionality that traditionally was in the core framework. If you have code that no longer compiles because of this PR, you can use the script [from a commit message](https://git...

- The `priority_level_request_utilization` metric histogram is adjusted so that for the cases where `phase=waiting` the denominator is the cumulative capacity of all of the priority level's queues.

    *   Best practice for version 1.9 and future versions is to explicitly set a cloud-provider. See [the documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/scratch/#cloud-providers)
*   The kubeadm `--skip-preflight-checks` flag is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

* rkt version 1.23.0+

    * known issues with the rkt runtime are [listed in the Getting Started Guide](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes/)

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)