- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117948), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky))...

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117724](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117724), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky))...

[Setup topics]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/
[SIGs]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md


## Major Themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into
[Special Interest Groups][]. For the 1.8 release, each SIG provides the
themes that guided their work.

- Kubeadm: modify the etcd static Pod liveness and readyness probes to use a new etcd 3.5.3+ HTTP(s) health check endpoint "/health?serializable=true" that allows to track the health of individual etcd members and not fail all members if a single member is not healthy in the etcd cluster. ([#110072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110072), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#118192](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118192), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky))...

- Bump cAdvisor to v0.49.0 ([#123599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123599), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Node]
- Embed Node information into Pod-bound service account tokens as additional metadata

- `kubeadm`: promoted feature gate `EtcdLearnerMode` to `beta`. Learner mode for
  joining `etcd` members is now enabled by default. ([#120228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120228), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117916), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky))...