- The `horizontalpodautoscaling` and `clusterrole-aggregation` controllers now assume the `autoscaling/v1` and `rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1` APIs are available. If you disable those APIs and do not want to run those controllers, exclude them by passing `--controllers=-horizontalpodautoscaling` or `--controllers=-clusterrole-aggregation` to `kube-controller-manager`. ([#117977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117977), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

* Break the 'certificatesigningrequests' controller into a 'csrapprover' controller and 'csrsigner' controller. ([#45514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45514), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

    "fencing" operation has provided one of the above indications.
  * For all other existing controllers except StatefulSet, this has no effect on
    the ability of the controller to replace pods because the controllers do not
    reuse pod names (they use generate-name).
  * User-written controllers that reuse names of pod objects should evaluate this change.

  * You can find the PodSpec tolerations that were created as annotations (if any) in a controller definition by doing `kubectl get <controller kind> <controller name> -o yaml` and looking for the "Annotation" section with the annotation key `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/tolerations` (This will work whether you are running Kubernetes 1.5 or 1.6).

### kubectl delete

     * Before upgrading to 1.2, <strong>delete all Deployment alpha-version resources</strong>, including the Replication Controllers and Pods the Deployment manages. Then
create Deployment Beta resources after upgrading to 1.2. Not deleting the
Deployment objects may cause the deployment controller to mistakenly match
other pods and delete them, due to the selector API change.

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- The `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller in the API server is deprecated.

  - The replacement is running a cloud-specific controller-manager (often referred to as `cloud-controller-manager`) with the `PersistentVolumeLabel` controller enabled. This new controller loop operates as the `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller did in previous versions.

### **Apps**

*   The `kubernetes.io/created-by` annotation is no longer added to controller-created objects. Use the `metadata.ownerReferences` item with controller set to `true` to determine which controller, if any, owns an object. ([#54445](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54445),[ @crimsonfaith91](https://github.com/crimsonfaith91))

- StatefulSet controllers no longer force a resync every 30 seconds when nothing has changed. ([#75622](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75622), [@jonsabo](https://github.com/jonsabo))