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

- Shell completion has been migrated to Cobra's go solution.  `kubectl` is now smarter about disabling file completion when it does not apply.  Furthermore, completion for the `cp` command does not show all files unless the user has started typing something. ([#96087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96087), [@marckhouzam](https://github.com/marckhouzam)) [SIG CLI]

- Added metrics for volume reconstruction during kubelet startup. ([#115965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115965), [@jsafran...

- kubelet: Fix - the volume manager didn't check the device mount state in the actual state of the world before marking the volume as detached. It may cause a pod to be stuck in the Terminating state due to the above issue when it was deleted. ([#128219](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128219), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

- Pause image contains "Architecture" in non-amd64 images ([#87954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87954), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release]
- Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#87900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87900), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

* 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)

- Fixed a bug that the kubelet cannot start on BtrfS. ([#98042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98042), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node]

- Sped up kubelet start time by executing an immediate runtime and node status update when the Kubelet sees that it has a CIDR. ([#67031](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67031), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

* Reload systemd config files before starting kubelet. ([#65702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65702), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* fix formatAndMount func issue on Windows ([#63248](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63248), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Added support for `--cpu`, `--memory` flag to `kubectl autoscale`, started deprecating `--cpu-precent`. ([#129373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129373), [@googs1025](https://github.com/googs1025))