* kube-apiserver: requests to endpoints handled by unavailable extension API servers (as indicated by an `Available` condition of `false` in the registered APIService) now return `503` errors instead of `404` errors. ([#58070](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58070), [@weekface](https://github.com/weekface))

* Cluster Autoscaler 1.0.0 ([#53005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53005), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Remove the --docker-exec-handler flag. Only native exec handler is supported. ([#52287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52287), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- Static pods will be deleted gracefully. ([#98103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98103), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node]
- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed missing delete events on informer re-lists to ensure all delete events were correctly emitted and using the latest known object state, so that all event handlers and stores always reflect the actual apiserver state as best as possible ([#115620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115620), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

* GCE: Bump GLBC version to [0.9.7](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/releases/tag/0.9.7). ([#53625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53625), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* kubeadm 1.8 now properly handles upgrades from to 1.7.x to newer release in 1.7 branch ([#53338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53338), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- Replaced `apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes` with `apiserver_storage_size_bytes` metric. ([#118812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118812), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
- Scheduler now waits for handlers to finish syncing before the scheduling cycles start. ([#116729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116729), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

- Fix EndpointSlice controller race condition and ensure that it handles external changes to EndpointSlices. ([#85703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85703), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

## Changelog since v1.13.0-beta.2

### Other notable changes

* CVE-2018-1002105: Fix critical security issue in kube-apiserver upgrade request proxy handler ([#71411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71411), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- Fix a race in the timeout handler that could lead to kube-apiserver crashes ([#108455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108455), [@Argh4k](https://github.com/Argh4k))