// The scheduler will prefer to schedule pods to nodes that satisfy
  // the affinity expressions specified by this field, but it may choose
  // a node that violates one or more of the expressions. The node that is
  // most preferred is the one with the greatest sum of weights, i.e.
  // for each node that meets all of the scheduling requirements (resource

- e2e tests that require SSH may now be used against clusters that have nodes without external IP addresses by setting the environment variable `KUBE_SSH_BASTION` to the `host:port` of a machine that is allowed to SSH to those nodes.  The same private key that the test would use is used for the bastion host.  The test connects to the bastion and then tunnels another SSH connection to...

    - [<code>CSIMigrationvSphere</code> feature gate has not migrated to new CRD APIs](#csimigrationvsphere-feature-gate-has-not-migrated-to-new-crd-apis)
    - [Workloads that saturate nodes with pods may see pods that fail due to node admission](#workloads-that-saturate-nodes-with-pods-may-see-pods-that-fail-due-to-node-admission)
    - [Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption](#etcd-v350-2-data-corruption)
  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)

external etcd endpoints passed in the `ClusterConfiguration` that have Unicode characters are no longer IDNA encoded (converted to Punycode). They are now just URL encoded as per Go's implementation of RFC-3986, have duplicate "/" removed from the URL paths, and passed like that directly to the `kube-apiserver` `--etcd-servers` flag. If you have etcd endpoints that have Unicode characters, it is advisable to encode them in advance with tooling that is fully IDNA compliant. If you don't do that, the Go standard...

* Fixes a bug in openapi published for custom resources using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields extensions, so that kubectl will allow sending unknown fields for that portion of the object. ([#79636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79636), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

**[Pod priority and preemption](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/) is now enabled by default.** Note that this means that pods from *any* namespace can now request priority classes that compete with and/or cause preemption of critical system pods that are already running. If that is not desired, disable the PodPriority feature by setting `--feature-gates=PodPriority=false` on the kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, and kubelet components before upgrading to 1.11....

    *   Kubelet now uses an explicit cm.GetDevicePluginResourceCapacity() function that makes it possible to more accurately determine what resources are inactive and return a more accurate view of available resources.
    *   Extends the device plugin checkpoint data to record registered resources so that we can finish resource removing devices even upon kubelet restarts.

- Verify that CRD default values in OpenAPI specs are pruned, with the exceptions of values under `metadata`. ([#78829](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78829), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
- Fixes a bug that when there is a "connection refused" error, the reflector's ListAndWatch func will return directly but what expected is that sleep 1 second and rewatch since the specified resourceVersion.

  - [Downloads for v1.17.0](#downloads-for-v1170)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-17)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-17)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-17)
- [Changes](#changes)
  - [What’s New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Cloud Provider Labels reach General Availability](#cloud-provider-labels-reach-general-availability)
    - [Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta](#volume-snapshot-moves-to-beta)

### Promoted core CSI Migration to Stable