### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

#### Cluster Lifecycle

- Container images tar files for `amd64` will now contain the architecture in the RepoTags manifest.json section.
  If you are using docker manifests there are not visible changes. ([#80266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80266), [@javier-b-perez](https://github.com/javier-b-perez))

- Restores priority of static control plane pods in the cluster/gce/manifests control-plane manifests ([#89970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89970), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

## Changelog since v1.8.1

### Other notable changes

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Restores priority of static control plane pods in the cluster/gce/manifests control-plane manifests ([#89970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89970), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]

- Restores priority of static control plane pods in the cluster/gce/manifests control-plane manifests ([#89970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89970), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]


# v1.18.1

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

- The deprecated Kubelet flag `--allow-privileged` has been removed. Remove any use of the flag from your kubelet scripts or manifests. ([#77820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77820), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* kube-controller-manager: fixed issue display help for the deprecated insecure --port flag ([#71601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71601), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Update Cluster Autoscaler version in gce manifests to 1.13.1 (https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.13.1) ([#71842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71842), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))

* Fixes `kubectl create secret docker-registry` compatibility ([#72344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72344), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Add-on manifests now use the apps/v1 API for DaemonSets, Deployments, and ReplicaSets ([#72203](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72203), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))