* Deprecate the --reconcile-cidr kubelet flag because it has no function anymore ([#35523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35523), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))
* Removed the deprecated kubelet --configure-cbr0 flag, and with that the "classic" networking mode as well ([#34906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34906), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))
* New client-go structure ([#34989](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34989), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Remove scheduler flags that were marked as deprecated 2+ releases ago. ([#34471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34471), [@timothysc](https://github.com/timothysc))
### Other notable changes
* Make the fake RESTClient usable by all the API groups, not just core. ([#35492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35492), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))
* Adding support for DeleteOptions.OrphanDependents for federated namespaces. Setting it to false while deleting a federated namespace also deletes the corresponding namespace from all registered clusters. ([#34648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34648), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* Kubelet flag '--mounter-path' renamed to '--experimental-mounter-path' ([#35646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35646), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))
* Node status updater should SetNodeStatusUpdateNeeded if it fails to update status ([#34368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34368), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* Deprecate OpenAPI spec for GroupVersion endpoints in favor of single spec /swagger.json ([#35388](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35388), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))
* Fix volume states out of sync problem after kubelet restarts ([#33616](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33616), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* Added rkt binary to GCI ([#35321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35321), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))
* Fixed mutation warning in Attach/Detach controller ([#35273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35273), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Don't count failed pods as "not-ready" ([#35404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35404), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* fixed typo in script which made setting custom cidr in gce using kube-up impossible ([#35267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35267), [@tommywo](https://github.com/tommywo))
* The podGC controller will now always run, irrespective of the value supplied to the "terminated-pod-gc-threshold" flag supplied to the controller manager. ([#35476](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35476), [@foxish](https://github.com/foxish))
* The specific behavior of the podGC controller to clean up terminated pods is still governed by the flag, but the podGC's responsibilities have evolved beyond just cleaning up terminated pods.
* Update grafana version used by default in kubernetes to 3.1.1 ([#35435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35435), [@Crassirostris](https://github.com/Crassirostris))
* vSphere Kube-up: resolve vm-names on all nodes ([#35365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35365), [@kerneltime](https://github.com/kerneltime))
* bootstrap: Start hostNetwork pods even if network plugin not ready ([#33347](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33347), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Factor out post-init swagger and OpenAPI routes ([#32590](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32590), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Substitute gcloud regex with regexp ([#35346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35346), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* Remove support for multi-architecture code in `kubeadm`, which was released untested. ([#35124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35124), [@errordeveloper](https://github.com/errordeveloper))
* vSphere kube-up: Wait for cbr0 configuration to complete before setting up routes. ([#35232](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35232), [@kerneltime](https://github.com/kerneltime))
* Remove last probe time from replica sets ([#35199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35199), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))
* Update the GCI image to gci-dev-55-8872-18-0 ([#35243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35243), [@maisem](https://github.com/maisem))
* Add `--mounter-path` flag to kubelet that will allow overriding the `mount` command used by kubelet ([#34994](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34994), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* Fix a bug under the rkt runtime whereby image-registries with ports would not be fetched from ([#34375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34375), [@euank](https://github.com/euank))
* Updated default Elasticsearch and Kibana used for elasticsearch logging destination to versions 2.4.1 and 4.6.1 respectively. ([#34969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34969), [@Crassirostris](https://github.com/Crassirostris))
* Loadbalanced client src ip preservation enters beta ([#33957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33957), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* Add NodePort value in kubectl output ([#34922](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34922), [@zreigz](https://github.com/zreigz))
* kubectl drain now waits until pods have been delete from the Node before exiting ([#34778](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34778), [@ymqytw](https://github.com/ymqytw))
* Don't report FS stats for system containers in the Kubelet Summary API ([#34998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34998), [@timstclair](https://github.com/timstclair))
* Fixed flakes caused by petset tests. ([#35158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35158), [@foxish](https://github.com/foxish))
* Add validation that detects repeated keys in the labels and annotations maps ([#34407](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34407), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Change merge key for VolumeMount to mountPath ([#35071](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35071), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))
* kubelet: storage: don't hang kubelet on unresponsive nfs ([#35038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35038), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))
* Improves how 'kubectl' uses the terminal size when printing help and usage. ([#34502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34502), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))
* Updated Elasticsearch image from version 1.5.1 to version 2.4.1. Updated Kibana image from version 4.0.2 to version 4.6.1. ([#34562](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34562), [@Crassirostris](https://github.com/Crassirostris))
* libvirt-coreos: Download the coreos_production_qemu_image over SSL. ([#34646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34646), [@roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))
* Add a new global option "--request-timeout" to the `kubectl` client ([#33958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33958), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))
* Add support for admission controller based on namespace node selectors. ([#24980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24980), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))
* Add 'kubectl set resources' ([#27206](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27206), [@JacobTanenbaum](https://github.com/JacobTanenbaum))
* Support trust id as a scope in the OpenStack authentication logic ([#32111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32111), [@MatMaul](https://github.com/MatMaul))
* Only wait for cache syncs once in NodeController ([#34851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34851), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))
* NodeController waits for informer sync before doing anything ([#34809](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34809), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* azure: lower log priority for skipped nic update message ([#34730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34730), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))
* Security Group support for OpenStack Load Balancers ([#31921](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31921), [@grahamhayes](https://github.com/grahamhayes))
* Make NodeController recognize deletion tombstones ([#34786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34786), [@davidopp](https://github.com/davidopp))
* Delete all firewall rules (and optionally network) on GCE/GKE cluster teardown ([#34577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34577), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))
* Fix panic in NodeController caused by receiving DeletedFinalStateUnknown object from the cache. ([#34694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34694), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* azure: add PrimaryAvailabilitySet to config, only use nodes in that set in the loadbalancer pool ([#34526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34526), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))
* pvc.Spec.Resources.Requests min and max can be enforced with a LimitRange of type "PersistentVolumeClaim" in the namespace ([#30145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30145), [@markturansky](https://github.com/markturansky))
* Federated DaemonSet controller. Supports all the API that regular DaemonSet has. ([#34319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34319), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* New federation deployment mechanism now allows non-GCP clusters. ([#34620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34620), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))
* Writes the federation kubeconfig to the local kubeconfig file.
* Update the series and the README to reflect the change. ([#30374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30374), [@mbruzek](https://github.com/mbruzek))
* Replica set conditions API ([#33905](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33905), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))
* etcd3: avoid unnecessary decoding in etcd3 client ([#34435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34435), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Test x509 intermediates correctly ([#34524](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34524), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Add `cifs-utils` to the hyperkube image. ([#34416](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34416), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))
* etcd3: use PrevKV to remove additional get ([#34246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34246), [@hongchaodeng](https://github.com/hongchaodeng))
