## External Dependencies

* Default etcd server version is v3.2.18 compared with v3.1.12 in v1.10 ([#61198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61198))
* Rescheduler is v0.4.0, compared with v0.3.1 in v1.10 ([#65454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65454))
* The validated docker versions are the same as for v1.10: 1.11.2 to 1.13.1 and 17.03.x (ref)

### Autoscaling

 - Consuming metrics directly from Heapster is deprecated in favor of
   consuming metrics via an aggregated version of the resource metrics API.

   - In version 1.8, enable this behavior by setting the
     `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `true`.

## External Dependency Version Information

Continuous integration builds have used the following versions of external dependencies, however, this is not a strong recommendation and users should consult an appropriate installation or upgrade guide before deciding what versions of etcd, docker or rkt to use.

* Docker versions 1.10.3, 1.11.2, 1.12.6 have been validated
  * Docker version 1.12.6 known issues

  was followed by 5. This is confusing, perhaps adding "win" qualifier to version
  field could clear this up (but it's quite ugly as well)   -->
  
  <mime-type type="application/x-quattro-pro;version=1+5">
    <sub-class-of type="application/x-quattro-pro"/>
    <_comment>Quattro Pro for Windows, version 1, 5</_comment>
    <magic priority="50">

    *   You can manually set `--cloud-provider=auto-detect`, but be aware that this behavior will be removed completely in a future version.
    *   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)

## External Dependencies
* The supported etcd server version is 3.1.12, as compared to 3.1.10 in v1.9 ([#60998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60998))
* The validated docker versions are the same as for v1.9: 1.11.2 to 1.13.1 and 17.03.x ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.10/test/e2e_node/system/docker_validator_test.go))

- The resource version option, when passed to a list call, is now consistently interpreted as the minimum allowed resource version.  Previously when listing resources that had the watch cache disabled clients could retrieve a snapshot at that exact resource version.  If the client requests a resource version newer than the current state, a TimeoutError is returned suggesting the client retry in a few seconds....

## **External Dependency Version Information**

Continuous integration builds have used the following versions of external dependencies, however, this is not a strong recommendation and users should consult an appropriate installation or upgrade guide before deciding what versions of etcd, docker or rkt to use.

* Docker versions 1.10.3, 1.11.2, 1.12.6 have been validated

  when the kernel version was 4.15 or higher. With the kernel 4.15 the sysctl became namespaced.
  Pod Security admission allowed these sysctl in v1.32+ versions of the baseline and restricted policies. ([#127489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127489), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Auth, Network and Node]

- The list of validated docker versions remain unchanged at 1.11.1, 1.12.1, 1.13.1, 17.03, 17.06, 17.09, 18.06 since Kubernetes 1.12. ([#68495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68495))
- The default Go version was updated to 1.11.2. ([#70665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70665))
- The minimum supported Go version was updated to 1.11.2 ([#69386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69386))