<details>

        ```console
        $ kubectl version
        # paste output here
        ```

        </details>
    validations:
      required: true

  - type: textarea
    id: cloudProvider
    attributes:
      label: Cloud provider
      value: |
        <details>

        </details>
    validations:
      required: true

  - type: textarea
    id: osVersion
    attributes:

* Add masquerading rules by default to GCE/GKE ([#55178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55178), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))
* Azure cloudprovider: Fix controller manager crash issue on a manually created k8s cluster. ([#53694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53694), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

  - The `Node` authorization mode no longer allows kubelets to delete their Node API objects (prior to 1.11, in rare circumstances related to cloudprovider node ID changes, kubelets would attempt to delete/recreate their Node object at startup) ([#71021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71021), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* LegacyHostIP will be deprecated in 1.7. ([#36095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36095), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Fix LBaaS version detection in openstack cloudprovider ([#36249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36249), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

* update expose command description to add deployment ([#23246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23246), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))
* Add a rate limiter to the GCE cloudprovider ([#23019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23019), [@alex-mohr](https://github.com/alex-mohr))

* Azure cloudprovider: Fix controller manager crash issue on a manually created k8s cluster. ([#53694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53694), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* ResourceQuota BestEffort scope aligned with Pod level QoS ([#26969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26969), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
* The AWS cloudprovider will cache results from DescribeInstances() if the set of nodes hasn't changed ([#26900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26900), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))

## Changelog since v1.6.11

### Other notable changes

* Azure cloudprovider: Fix controller manager crash issue on a manually created k8s cluster. ([#53694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53694), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Rescheduler which ensures that critical pods are always scheduled enabled by default in GCE. ([#31974](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31974), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* retry oauth token fetch in gce cloudprovider ([#32021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32021), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

The following PRs changed the API spec:
  * In the new v1alpha2 kubeadm Configuration API, the `.CloudProvider` and `.PrivilegedPods` fields don't exist anymore. Instead, you should use the out-of-tree cloud provider implementations, which are beta in v1.11.