- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- Fixed an issue where the API server did not send impersonated UID to authentication webhooks. ([#116681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116681), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

* [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]

  * Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can to modify Node objects and send requests proxying through them.

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can to modify Node objects and send requests proxying through them.

 - End-to-end testing has been migrated from Ginkgo v1 to v2.

- github.com/posener/complete: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/posener/complete/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/spf13/cast: [v1.3.1](https://github.com/spf13/cast/tree/v1.3.1)

- github.com/prometheus/tsdb: [v0.7.1](https://github.com/prometheus/tsdb/tree/v0.7.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name/tree/v1.0.0)

  in `v1.29+` versions of the baseline and restricted policies. ([#118846](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118846), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))
- `kubelet` now emits a metric for end-to-end pod startup latency, including image pull. ([#121041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121041), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))