* the default config file is "e2e.yaml/toml/json/..." and the test starts when no such config is found (as before) but if -viper-config is used, the config file must exist
   * -viper-config can be used to select a file with full path, with or without file suffix
   * the csiImageVersion/Registry flags were renamed to storage.csi.imageVersion/Registry

* Docker versions 1.10.3, 1.11.2, 1.12.6 have been validated
  * Docker version 1.12.6 known issues
    * overlay2 driver not fully supported
    * live-restore not fully supported
    * no shared pid namespace support
  * Docker version 1.11.2 known issues

  * When deleting an object with `kubectl delete ... --grace-period=0`, the client will
    begin a graceful deletion and wait until the resource is fully deleted.  To force
    deletion immediately, use the `--force` flag. This prevents users from accidentally
    allowing two Stateful Set pods to share the same persistent volume which could lead to data

- Fix performance issue when creating large objects using SSA with fully unspecified schemas (preserveUnknownFields). ([#111914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111914), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Storage and Testing]...

- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers is now in beta (enabled by default). This feature ensures the Service resource is not fully deleted until the correlating load balancer resources are deleted. ([#81691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81691), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready
      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to
      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*
      endpoints, rather than waiting until all of the terminating

- Fixed mounting of iSCSI volumes over IPv6 networks. ([#110688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110688), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
- Fixed performance issue when creating large objects using SSA with fully unspecified schemas ( preserveUnknownFields ). ([#111557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111557), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

- SetHostnameAsFQDN is a new field in PodSpec. When set to true, the fully 
  qualified domain name (FQDN) of a Pod is set as hostname of its containers. 
  In Linux containers, this means setting the FQDN in the hostname field of the 

- Fix performance issue when creating large objects using SSA with fully unspecified schemas (preserveUnknownFields). ([#111915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111915), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Storage...

- Switch scheduler to generate the merge patch on pod status instead of the full pod ([#103133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103133), [@marwanad](https://github.com/marwanad)) [SIG Scheduling]