## Changelog since v1.17.0

A complete changelog for the release notes is now hosted in a customizable
format at [https://relnotes.k8s.io][1]. Check it out and please give us your
feedback!

[1]: https://relnotes.k8s.io/?releaseVersions=1.18.0

## What’s New (Major Themes)

### Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!

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* [Auditing](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/audit/) is now enabled behind a featureGate in kubeadm. A user can supply their own audit policy with configuration option as well as a place for the audit logs to live. If no policy is supplied a default policy will be provided. The default policy will log all Metadata level policy logs. It is the example provided in the documentation. ([#59067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59067), [@chuckha](ht...

- kube-controller-manager currently needs a writable `--cert-dir` (default is `/var/run/kubernetes`) for...

### Internal

* 🔨 Enable linenums in MkDocs Material during local live development to simplify highlighting code. PR [#9769](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/9769) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

## Changelog since v1.31.0

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Server-side apply behavior has been regularized in the case where a field is removed from the applied configuration. Removed fields which have no other owners are deleted from the live object, or reset to their default value if they have one. Safe ownership transfers, such as the transfer of a `replicas` field from a user to an HPA without resetting to the default value are documented in [Transferring Ownership](https://kubernet...