*   Make crictl command more user friendly and add more subcommands.
    *   Integrate with CRI verbose option to provide extra debug information.
    *   Update CRI to kubernetes v1.9.
    *   Bug fixes in validation test suites.

* kubeadm now makes the CoreDNS container more secure by dropping (root) capabilities and improves the integrity of the container by running the whole container in read-only.  ([#64473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64473), [@nberlee](https://github.com/nberlee))

Alpha for the cloudprovider-aws cloud controller manager binary. Additionally we added [aws-k8s-tester](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/9814), deployer interface for kubetest, to the test-infra repository. This plugin allowed us to integrate Prow to the 3 subprojects defined above in order to provide CI signal for all 3 features. The CI signal is visible [here](https://testgrid.k8s.io/) under SIG-AWS.

For detailed release notes on the three alpha features from SIG AWS, please...

- With this new stable feature, Kubernetes supports the scaling of containerized applications with Azure VMSS, including the ability to integrate it with cluster-autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of the Kubernetes clusters based on the same conditions.

### SIG-cli

Extensions API group): Kubernetes can schedule a service (such as a logging
agent) that runs one, and only one, pod per node.
     * TLS and L7 support (Ingress API (Beta) in the Extensions API group): Kubernetes
is now easier to integrate into custom networking environments by supporting
TLS for secure communication and L7 http-based traffic routing.
     * Graceful Node Shutdown (aka drain) - The new “kubectl drain” command gracefully

  * Remove the `--enable-cri` flag. CRI is now the default, and the only way to integrate with Kubelet for the container runtimes.([#45194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45194), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- Use checksums instead of fsyncs to ensure discovery cache integrity ([#110851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110851), [@negz](https://github.com/negz)) [SIG API Machinery]