- Graduating `controller_admission_duration_seconds`, `step_admission_duration_seconds`, `webhook_admission_duration_seconds`, `apiserver_current_inflight_requests` and `apiserver_response_sizes` metrics to stable. ([#106122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106122), [@rezakrimi](https://github.com/rezakrimi)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

- CSI Topology feature is GA. ([#83474](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83474), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
- The VolumeSubpathEnvExpansion feature is graduating to GA. The `VolumeSubpathEnvExpansion` feature gate is unconditionally enabled, and will be removed in v1.19. ([#82578](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82578), [@kevtaylor](https://github.com/kevtaylor))

  - As part of graduating the etcd encryption feature to beta, the configuration file referenced by `--encryption-provider-config` now uses `kind: EncryptionConfiguration` and `apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1`. Support for `kind: EncryptionConfig` and `apiVersion:...

# Kubernetes v1.14 Release Notes

## 1.14 What’s New

Support for Windows Nodes is Graduating to Stable ([#116](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/116) )

- Support for Windows Server 2019 for worker nodes and containers
- Support for out of tree networking with Azure-CNI, OVN-Kubernetes and Flannel

- Ingress objects are now persisted in etcd using the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` version ([#77139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77139), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano))
- NodeLocal DNSCache graduating to beta. ([#77887](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77887), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))

### Alpha

- **Admission webhooks:** Admission webhooks are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and have been available in beta since the 1.9 release. The 1.16 release marks the graduation of admission webhooks to general availability (GA).

### SIG Auth

Work this cycle focused on graduating existing functions, and on making security functions more understandable for users.

Storage also worked on a number of [Container Storage Interface (CSI) features](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/178) this quarter in anticipation of moving support for CSI from beta to GA in the next Kubernetes release. This includes graduating the dependent “mount namespace propagation” feature to GA, moving the Kubelet plugin registration mechanism to beta, adding alpha support for a new CSI driver registry as well as for topology, and adding a number of alpha features to support the...

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