<a href="#Conversions">converted</a> to a type of underlying type <code>Pointer</code> and vice versa.
If the respective types are <a href="#Type_parameter_declarations">type parameters</a>, all types in
their respective type sets must have the same underlying type, which must be <code>uintptr</code> and
<code>Pointer</code>, respectively.
The effect of converting between <code>Pointer</code> and <code>uintptr</code> is implementation-defined.
</p>

generated clientsets, dynamic, metadata, and scale clients have been modified to accept `context.Context` as a first argument. Signatures of Create, Update, and Patch methods have been updated to accept CreateOptions, UpdateOptions and PatchOptions respectively. Signatures of Delete and DeleteCollection methods now accept DeleteOptions by value instead of by reference. Generated clientsets with the previous interface have been added in new "deprecated" packages to allow incremental migration to the new...

- kubelet now accepts `pid=<number>` in the `--system-reserved` and `--kube-reserved` options to ensure that the specified number of process IDs will be reserved for the system as a whole and for Kubernetes system daemons respectively.  Please reference `Kube Reserved` and `System Reserved` in `Reserve Compute Resources for System Daemons` in the Kubernetes documentation for general discussion of resource reservation.  To utilize this functionality, you must set the feature...

- Reduced log verbosity for high-frequency, low-value log entries in Job, IPAM, and ReplicaSet controllers by adjusting them to V(2), V(4) and V(4) respectively. This change minimizes log noise while maintaining access to these logs when needed. ([#130591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130591), [@fmuyassarov](https://github.com/fmuyassarov)) [SIG Apps and Network]

  * `.NodeName` and `.CRISocket` in the `MasterConfiguration` and `NodeConfiguration` v1alpha1 API objects are now `.NodeRegistration.Name` and `.NodeRegistration.CRISocket` respectively in the v1alpha2 API. The `.NoTaintMaster` field has been removed in the v1alpha2 API. ([#64210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64210), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Reminder: The labels "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" are deprecated in favor of "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" respectively.  All users of the "failure-domain.beta..." labels should switch to the "topology..." equivalents. ([#96033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96033), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Cloud Provider,...

Also, Job controller's constants for default backoff and maximal backoff are lowered down to 1s (from 10s) and 1min (from 6min), respectively. These constants are used to determine the backoff delay for the next Job controller sync in case of a request failure. ([#118615](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118615), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]...

* The public-address-override, address, and port flags have been removed and replaced by bind-address, insecure-bind-address, and insecure-port, respectively. They are marked as deprecated in [#36604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36604), which is more than a year ago.  ([#59018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59018), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

* The metrics APIs, `custom-metrics.metrics.k8s.io` and `metrics`, were moved from `v1alpha1` to `v1beta1`, and renamed to `custom.metrics.k8s.io` and `metrics.k8s.io`, respectively. If you have deployed a custom metrics adapter, ensure that it supports the new API version. If you have deployed Heapster in aggregated API server mode, upgrade Heapster to support the latest API version.

    * This feature requires a **Node Drain** prior to upgrade failing which pods will...