* You can remove the "old" taints (stored internally as annotations) at any time after the upgrade by doing `kubectl annotate nodes <node name> scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/taints-` (note the minus at the...

- DRA device taints: `DeviceTaintRule` status provides information about the rule, including whether Pods still need to be evicted (`EvictionInProgress` condition). The newly added `None` effect can be used to preview what a `DeviceTaintRule` would do if it used the `NoExecute` effect and to taint devices (`device health`) without immediately affecting scheduling or running Pods. ([#134152](https://gith...

  * Fluentd now tolerates all NoExecute Taints when run in gcp configuration. ([#45715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45715), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

	* Taints support in gce/salt startup scripts. ([#47632](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47632), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

- A new `TaintNodesByCondition` admission plugin taints newly created Node objects as "not ready", to fix a race condition that could cause pods to be scheduled on new nodes before their taints were updated to accurately reflect their reported conditions. This admission plugin is enabled by default if the `TaintNodesByCondition` feature is enabled. ([#73097](https://gi...

* A new `TaintNodesByCondition` admission plugin taints newly created Node objects as "not ready", to fix a race condition that could cause pods to be scheduled on new nodes before their taints were updated to accurately reflect their reported conditions. This admission plugin is enabled by default if the `TaintNodesByCondition` feature is enabled. ([#73097](https://gi...

### **Scheduling**

*   Taint key `unreachable` is now in GA.
*   Taint key `notReady` is changed to `not-ready`, and is also now in GA.
*   These changes are automatically updated for taints. Tolerations for these taints must be updated manually. Specifically, you must:
    *   Change `node.alpha.kubernetes.io/notReady` to `node.kubernetes.io/not-ready`

* Add RequestedToCapacityRatioPriority priority function. Function is parametrized with set of points mapping node utilization (0-100) to score (0-10). ([#63929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63929), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
    * Function is linear between points. Resource utilization is defined as one minus ratio of total amount of resource requested by pods on node and node's capacity (scaled to 100).

* Add support for running GCI on the GCE cloud provider ([#25425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25425), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Implement taints and tolerations ([#24134](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24134), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))

* [alpha] Users can now add taints to nodes by condition ([design doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/scheduling/taint-node-by-condition.md))

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

* A new `TaintNodesByCondition` admission plugin taints newly created Node objects as "not ready", to fix a race condition that could cause pods to be scheduled on new nodes before their taints were updated to accurately reflect their reported conditions. This admission plugin is enabled by default if the `TaintNodesByCondition` feature is enabled. ([#73097](https://gi...