### Other notable changes

* Fix a deadlock in kubeadm master initialization. ([#43835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43835), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

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Recreate the relevant LoadBalancer services, or add a new tag 'kubernetes-cluster-name: <cluster-name>' manually for existing public IPs.
Configure each cluster with a different cluster name using `kube-controller-manager --cluster-name=<cluster-name>` ([#77630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77630), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

## **Deprecations**

### Cluster provisioning scripts
* cluster/ubuntu: Removed due to [deprecation](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster#cluster-configuration) and lack of maintenance. ([#44344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44344), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

the Cluster Autoscaler, which provides improved performance and error reporting.

[SIG Autoscaling]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-autoscaling

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

[SIG Cluster Lifecycle][] is responsible for the user experience of deploying,
upgrading, and deleting clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Cluster Lifecycle continued to focus on expanding the

### Cluster Lifecycle

* Heapster has is the same as v1.9: v1.5.0. It will be upgraded in v1.11. ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/cluster/addons/cluster-monitoring/google/heapster-controller.yaml))
* Cluster Autoscaler has been updated to v1.2.0. ([#60842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60842), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

- Kubeadm: http://git.k8s.io/enhancements/keps/sig-cluster-lifecycle/kubeadm/2067-rename-master-label-taint/README.md ([#95382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95382), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
  - The label applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.

- Base-images: Update to debian-iptables:buster-v1.4.0
  - Uses iptables 1.8.5
  - base-images: Update to debian-base:buster-v1.3.0
  - cluster/images/etcd: Build etcd:3.4.13-2 image
    - Uses debian-base:buster-v1.3.0 ([#98401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98401), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Testing]

- kubeadm: all master components are now exclusively relying on the `PriorityClassName` pod spec for annotating them as cluster critical components. Since `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod` annotation is no longer supported by Kubernetes 1.14 this annotation is no longer added to master components. ([#73857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73857), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))...