begins. Communication blocks until the send can proceed.
A send on an unbuffered channel can proceed if a receiver is ready.
A send on a buffered channel can proceed if there is room in the buffer.
A send on a closed channel proceeds by causing a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a>.
A send on a <code>nil</code> channel blocks forever.
</p>

<pre>
ch &lt;- 3  // send value 3 to channel ch
</pre>

<p>

- Reduce default NodeStatusReportFrequency to 5 minutes. With this change, periodic node status updates will be send every 5m if node status doesn't change (otherwise they are still send with 10s).

* [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.

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to version 1.3.7. ([#74136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74136), [@jkaniuk](https://github.com/jkaniuk))
* Fix watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

*   [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes is now v1.9. [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]
    *   Pass all the Kubernetes 1.9 end-to-end test suites and now gating PRs as well
    *   Pass all the CRI validation tests
    *   Release has been focused on bug fixes, stability and performance with runc and Clear Containers
    *   Minikube integration

and a suite of tests to validate that the CRI server implementation meets all the requirements. This allows the CRI runtime developers to verify that their runtime conforms to CRI, without needing to set up Kubernetes components or run Kubernetes end-to-end tests. ([docs](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-node/cri-validation.md) and [release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-tools/releases/tag/v0.1)) ([kubernetes/features#292](https://githu...

### SIG Multicluster

- Spedup kubectl by >10 when calling out to kube-apiserver for discovery information. ([#73345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73345), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
- Fixed watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Set kernel.softlockup_panic =1 based on the flag. ([#38001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38001), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* portfordwardtester: avoid data loss during send+close+exit ([#37103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37103), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

  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))