- kubeadm: `kubeadm upgrade plan` now supports `--etcd-upgrade` flag to control whether the etcd upgrade plan should be displayed. Add an `EtcdUpgrade` field into `UpgradeConfiguration.Plan` for v1beta4. ([#130023](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130023), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubeadm: only taint control plane nodes when the legacy "master" taint is present. This avoids the bug where "kubeadm upgrade" will re-taint a control plane  node with the new "control plane" taint even if the user explicitly untainted the node. ([#109840](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109840), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

(N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would become a maximum of N-2. ([#120825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120825), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))...

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are hence enabled by default. This will be fixed in a future release.
[#38593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38593)
* Federation control plane can be upgraded by updating the image
fields in the `Deployment` specs of the control plane components.
However, federation control plane upgrades were not tested in this
release [38537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38537)

## Notable Changes to Existing Behavior

  * You can find out what taints you have in place on a node while you are still running Kubernetes 1.5 by doing `kubectl describe node <node name>`; the `Taints` section will show the taints you have in place. To see the taints that were created under 1.5 when you are running 1.6, do `kubectl get node <node name> -o yaml` and look for the "Annotation" section with the annotation...

- 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

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It could be used to tell kubeadm to wait for all control plane components to be ready when running "kubeadm init" or "kubeadm join --control-plane". Previously, kubeadm only waited for the kube-apiserver. The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes a new experimental phase called "wait-control-plane". This phase was marked as non-experimental when WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents became GA. Accordingly, a "kubeadm init" phase "wait-control-plane" was also available once WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents...

- Kubeadm: only taint control plane nodes when the legacy "master" taint is present. This avoids a bug where "kubeadm upgrade" will re-taint a control plane node with the new "control plane" taint even if the user explicitly untainted the node. ([#109841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109841), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster...