- EmptyDir memory backed volumes are sized as the minimum of pod allocatable memory on a host and an optional explicit user provided value. ([#100319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100319), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr)) [SIG Node]

*   [beta] Flag `--chunk-size={SIZE}` is added to `kubectl get` to customize the number of results returned in large lists of resources. This reduces the perceived latency of managing large clusters because the server returns the first set of results to the client much more quickly....

* increase grpc client default response size ([#63977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63977), [@runcom](https://github.com/runcom))
* Increase the gRPC max message size to 16MB in the remote container runtime. ([#64672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64672), [@mcluseau](https://github.com/mcluseau))

 `http_request_duration_microseconds` `http_request_duration_microseconds_sum` `http_request_duration_microseconds_count`
 `http_request_size_bytes`
 `http_request_size_bytes_sum`
 `http_request_size_bytes_count`
 `http_requests_total, http_response_size_bytes`
 `http_response_size_bytes_sum`
 `http_response_size_bytes_count`

* Scale max-inflight limits together with master VM sizes. ([#73268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73268), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Update to go1.10.8 ([#73329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73329), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kube-controller-manager`:

  * `replication-controller-lookup-cache-size`
  * `replicaset-lookup-cache-size`
  * `daemonset-lookup-cache-size`

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

- Kube-apiserver metrics will now include request counts, latencies, and response sizes for /healthz, /livez, and /readyz requests. ([#83598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83598), [@jktomer](https://github.com/jktomer)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Replaced `apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes` with `apiserver_storage_size_bytes` metric. ([#118812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118812), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

New alpha features include:
* Online volume resizing will increase the filesystem size of a resized volume without requiring a Pod restart.

- Added `kubelet_container_log_size_bytes` metric representing the log file size of a container. ([#70749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70749), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz))