* rkt version 1.23.0+

    * known issues with the rkt runtime are [listed in the Getting Started Guide](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes/)

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)

container startup, as an alternative to baking in command-line flags when a
container is built.
     * Turnkey Deployments (Deployment API (Beta) in the Extensions API group)
automate deployment and rolling updates of applications, specified
declaratively. It handles versioning, multiple simultaneous rollouts,
aggregating status across all pods, maintaining application availability, and
rollback.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

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

*   Kubelet no longer removes default labels from Node API objects on startup ([#54073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54073),[ @liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
*   The overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O now work properly. ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827),[ @dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Make Azure clients only retry on specified HTTP status codes ([#88017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88017), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Pause image contains "Architecture" in non-amd64 images ([#87954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87954), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release]

  - `spec.usages` is now required, may not contain duplicate values, and must only contain known usages
  - `status.conditions` may not contain duplicate types
  - `status.conditions[*].status` is now required

- Tighten validation on the qosClass field of pod status. This field is immutable but it would be populated with the old status by kube-apiserver if it is unset in the new status when updating this field via the status subsource. ([#127744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127744), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps, Instrumentation, Node, Storage and Testing]...

- `kubelet` now emits a metric for end-to-end pod startup latency, including image pull. ([#121041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121041), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))
- `kubelet` now exposes latency metrics of different stages of the node startup. ([#118568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118568), [@qiutongs](https://github.com/qiutongs))

    * The apiserver also now takes an optional flag "--maximum-startup-sequence-duration". This allows you to explicitly define an upper bound on the apiserver startup sequences before healthz begins to fail. By keeping the kubelet liveness initial delay short, this can enable quick kubelet recovery as soon as we have a boot sequence which has not completed in our...

- Kubelet: Fixed a startup crash in devicemanager. ([#113021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113021), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))
- Kubelet: fixed log spam from kubelet_getters.go `Path does not exist`. ([#112650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112650), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))