## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Make STS available replicas optional again, ([#109241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109241), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]
- Make STS available replicas optional again. ([#113122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113122), [@ashrayjain](https://github.com/ashrayjain)) [SIG Apps]

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115021), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115022), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]

   ([#122530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122530), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

* GCE bring-up: Differentiate NODE_TAGS from NODE_INSTANCE_PREFIX ([#29141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29141), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* hyperkube: fix build for 3rd party registry (again) ([#28489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28489), [@liyimeng](https://github.com/liyimeng))

* Improve the ARM builds and make hyperkube on ARM working again by upgrading the Go version for ARM to go1.8beta2 ([#38926](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38926), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

time (GCE PDs attached in RW mode, for example), then the volume must be
manually detached before Kubernetes can attach it to other nodes.
  * If a volume is already attached to a node any subsequent attempts to attach it
again (due to kubelet restart, for example) will fail. The volume must either
be manually detached first or the pods referencing it deleted (which would
trigger automatic volume detach).

* routecontroller: Add wait.NonSlidingUntil, use it ([#26301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26301), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Attempt 2: Bump GCE containerVM to container-v1-3-v20160517 (Docker 1.11.1) again. ([#26001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26001), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))

- In the `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout` function, if `immediate` is true, the condition will now be invoked before waiting, guaranteeing that the condition is invoked at least once and then wait a interval before executing again. ([#119762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119762), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

API server now exits if it encounters a networking failure (e.g. the networking interface hosting its address goes away) to allow a process manager (systemd/kubelet/etc) to react to the problem. Previously the server would log the failure and try again to bind to its configured address:port. ([#42272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42272), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))

* The Prometheus metrics for the kube-apiserver for tracking incoming API requests and latencies...