## Changes since v1.1.1

### Major Themes

  * <strong>Significant scale improvements</strong>. Increased cluster scale by 400% to 1000 nodes with 30,000 pods per cluster.
Kubelet supports 100 pods per node with 4x reduced system overhead.
  * <strong>Simplified application deployment and management. </strong>
     * Dynamic Configuration (ConfigMap API in the core API group) enables application

## **External Dependency Version Information**

Continuous integration builds have used the following versions of external dependencies, however, this is not a strong recommendation and users should consult an appropriate installation or upgrade guide before deciding what versions of etcd, docker or rkt to use.

* Docker versions 1.10.3, 1.11.2, 1.12.6 have been validated

* Add sync state loop in master's volume reconciler ([#34859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34859), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* AWS: strong-typing for k8s vs aws volume ids ([#35883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35883), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

## External Dependency Version Information

Continuous integration builds have used the following versions of external dependencies, however, this is not a strong recommendation and users should consult an appropriate installation or upgrade guide before deciding what versions of etcd, docker or rkt to use.

* Docker versions 1.10.3, 1.11.2, 1.12.6 have been validated

## External Dependency Version Information

Continuous integration builds have used the following versions of external dependencies, however, this is not a strong recommendation and users should consult an appropriate installation or upgrade guide before deciding what versions of etcd, docker or rkt to use.

* Docker versions 1.10.3 - 1.12.3
  * Docker version 1.11.2 known issues

- Strip unnecessary security contexts on Windows ([#93475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93475), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG Node, Testing and Windows]
- To ensure the code be strong,  add unit test for GetAddressAndDialer ([#93180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93180), [@FreeZhang61](https://github.com/FreeZhang61)) [SIG Node]