diff --git a/docs/cli/kops_rolling-update_cluster.md b/docs/cli/kops_rolling-update_cluster.md
index 2cec8a7609..68d666c73a 100644
--- a/docs/cli/kops_rolling-update_cluster.md
+++ b/docs/cli/kops_rolling-update_cluster.md
@@ -53,10 +53,14 @@ kops rolling-update cluster
 ```
       --bastion-interval duration    Time to wait between restarting bastions (default 5m0s)
       --cloudonly                    Perform rolling update without confirming progress with k8s
+      --drain-interval duration      The duration that a rolling-update will wait after the node is drained. (default 1m30s)
+      --fail-on-drain-error          The rolling-update will fail if draining a node fails. (default true)
+      --fail-on-validate-error       The rolling-update will fail if the cluster fails to validate. (default true)
       --force                        Force rolling update, even if no changes
       --instance-group stringSlice   List of instance groups to update (defaults to all if not specified)
       --master-interval duration     Time to wait between restarting masters (default 5m0s)
       --node-interval duration       Time to wait between restarting nodes (default 2m0s)
+      --validate-retries int         The number of times that a node will be validated.  Between validation kops sleeps the master-interval/2 or node-interval/2 duration. (default 8)
       --yes                          perform rolling update without confirmation
 ```
 
diff --git a/pkg/featureflag/featureflag.go b/pkg/featureflag/featureflag.go
index 03babde292..4c2d78b1ba 100644
--- a/pkg/featureflag/featureflag.go
+++ b/pkg/featureflag/featureflag.go
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ func Bool(b bool) *bool {
 var DNSPreCreate = New("DNSPreCreate", Bool(true))
 
 // DrainAndValidateRollingUpdate if set will use new rolling update code that will drain and validate.
-var DrainAndValidateRollingUpdate = New("DrainAndValidateRollingUpdate", Bool(false))
+var DrainAndValidateRollingUpdate = New("DrainAndValidateRollingUpdate", Bool(true))
 
 // VPCSkipEnableDNSSupport if set will make that a VPC does not need DNSSupport enabled.
 var VPCSkipEnableDNSSupport = New("VPCSkipEnableDNSSupport", Bool(false))