* Replace controller presence checking logic ([#36924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36924), [@krousey](https://github.com/krousey))
* Fix a bug in scheduler happening after retrying unsuccessful bindings ([#37293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37293), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- You can now have different operation names for different storage operations. This still prevents two operations on same volume from happening concurrently but if the operation changes, it resets the exponential backoff.
([#75213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75213), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

Kubernetes 1.11 also makes it easier to see what's happening, as audit events can now be annotated with information about how an API request was handled:

* Fix race condition in setting node statusUpdateNeeded flag  ([#32807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32807), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* Fix the DOCKER_OPTS appending bug. ([#33163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33163), [@DjangoPeng](https://github.com/DjangoPeng))