* Proposal for implementing init containers ([#23666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23666), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))
### Other notable changes
* GCE provider: Limit Filter calls to regexps rather than insane blobs ([#27741](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27741), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* swap FIRSTSEEN/LASTSEEN columns in `kubectl get event -w` ([#27549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27549), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))
* Add federation api and cm servers to hyperkube ([#27586](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27586), [@colhom](https://github.com/colhom))
* federation: Creating kubeconfig files to be used for creating secrets for clusters on aws and gke ([#27332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27332), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* AWS: Enable ICMP Type 3 Code 4 for ELBs ([#27677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27677), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Bumped Heapster to v1.1.0 ([#27542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27542), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* Validate-cluster finishes shortly after at most ALLOWED_NOTREADY_NODE… ([#26778](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26778), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* AWS kube-down: Issue warning if VPC not found ([#27518](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27518), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* gce/kube-down: Parallelize IGM deletion, batch more ([#27302](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27302), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Enable dynamic allocation of heapster/eventer cpu request/limit ([#27185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27185), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* 'kubectl describe pv' now shows events ([#27431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27431), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* AWS kube-up: set net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1=0 to avoid ARP over-caching ([#27682](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27682), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* AWS volumes: Use /dev/xvdXX names with EC2 ([#27628](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27628), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Prep for continuous Docker validation test ([#26813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26813), [@wonderfly](https://github.com/wonderfly))
* Bump cAdvisor to v0.23.4 ([#27591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27591), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* Change default value of deleting-pods-burst to 1 ([#27606](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27606), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* MESOS: fix race condition in contrib/mesos/pkg/queue/delay ([#24916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24916), [@jdef](https://github.com/jdef))
* including federation binaries in the list of images we push during release ([#27396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27396), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* fix updatePod() of RS and RC controllers ([#27415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27415), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Change default value of deleting-pods-burst to 1 ([#27422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27422), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))