*   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.

  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.

* [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]

  * Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

- **Cluster Lifecycle**
  - [alpha] Improved UX and usability for the kubeadm binary that makes it easy to get a new cluster running. ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/)) ([changelog](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)) ([kubernetes/features#11](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/11))
- **Cluster Ops**

  - 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

- 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.

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

  - [alpha] The `kubeadm` tool makes it much easier to bootstrap Kubernetes. ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/)) ([kubernetes/features#11](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/11))
- **Federation**
  - [alpha] Creating a `Federated Ingress` is as simple as submitting

- 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))

#### Rkt runtime Known Issues

- A detailed list of known issues can be found [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.github.io/blob/release-1.3/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes.md)

*More Instructions coming soon*

## Provider-specific Notes

* AWS
  * Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul)
  * Allow cross-region image pulling with ECR