- It is now possible to upload certificates required to join a new control-plane to kubeadm-certs secret using the flag `--experimental-upload-certs` on `init` or upload-certs phase. ([#73907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73907), [@yagonobre](https://github.com/yagonobre))

* Container runtime daemon (e.g. dockerd) logs in GCE cluster will be uploaded to stackdriver and elasticsearch with tag `container-runtime`. ([#59103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59103), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- Upgraded `coredns` to `v1.10.1` ([#115603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115603), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Upgraded `go-jose` to `v2.6.0` ([#115893](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115893), [@mgoltzsche](https://github.com/mgoltzsche))

   ([#123562](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123562), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))
- Fixed a `1.27.0+` regression in kubeadm: The kubelet patch configuration will not be uploaded into the `kube-system/kubelet-config` ConfigMap anymore.
   ([#123093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123093), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

  - `kubeadm config upload` has been deprecated, as its replacement is now graduated. Please use `kubeadm init phase upload-config` instead. ([#77946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77946), [@Klaven](htt...

#### Storage
- A node that uses a CSI raw block volume needs to be drained before kubelet can be upgraded to 1.17. ([#74026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74026), [@mkimuram](https://github.com/mkimuram))

#### Windows
- The Windows containers RunAsUsername feature is now beta.

- Upgraded etcd client to v3.5.16. ([#127279](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127279), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider and Node]

* Performance test framework and basic tests for the IPAM controller, to simulate behavior of the four supported modes under lightly loaded and loaded conditions, where load is defined as the number of operations to perform as against the configured kubernetes. ([#61143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61143), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

*   The Go version was upgraded from go1.8.3 to **go1.9.2** ([#51375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51375),[ @cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))
    *   The minimum supported go version bumps to 1.9.1. ([#55301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55301),[ @xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

- Rev the Azure SDK for networking to 2017-06-01 ([#61955](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61955))
- Es-image has been upgraded to Elasticsearch 6.3.2 ([#67484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67484))
- metrics-server has been upgraded to v0.3.1. ([#68746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68746))
- GLBC has been updated to v1.2.3 ([#66793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66793))