The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod
  that was previously rejected by the VolemeZone plugin if  addition/update of node, 
  addition/update of PV, addition/update of PVC, or addition of SC matches pod's topology settings. ([#124996](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124996), [@Gekko0114](https://github.com/Gekko0114)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]

In addition, support for NVMe disks has been added to Kubernetes, and a service of type LoadBalancer can now be backed with an NLB instead of an ELB (alpha).

### Azure

- Kubeadm: when adding new control plane nodes with "kubeadm join", ensure that the etcd member addition is performed only if a given member URL does not already exist in the list of members. Similarly, on "kubeadm reset" only remove an etcd member if its ID exists. ([#127621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127621), [@SataQiu](https:...

ers/), it became more obvious how we can support developers with tooling built on top of `kubectl exec`. The addition of the `kubectl debug` [command](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-cli/1441-kubectl-debug/README.md) (it is alpha but your feedback is more than welcome), allows developers to easily debug their Pods inside the cluster. We think this addition is invaluable.  This command allows one to create a temporary container which runs next to the Pod one is trying...

been the focus of our effort over the past quarter.  To this end we engaged with end users, and successfully enlisted additional contributors from companies including IBM, Amadeus, Cisco and others. Federation v2 provides a suite of decoupled API’s and  re-usable components for building multi-cluster control planes. We plan to start releasing Beta components in late 2018.  In addition, more minor updates were made to our cluster-registry and multi-cluster ingress sub-projects.

### SIG Network...

* AWS Security Groups created for ELBs will now be tagged with the same additional tags as the ELB; that is, the tags specified by the "service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-additional-resource-tags" annotation. This is useful for identifying orphaned resources. ([#58767](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58767), [@2rs2ts](https://github.com/2rs2ts))

 - Log messages in JSON format are written to stderr by default now (same as text format) instead of stdout. Users who expected JSON output on stdout must now capture stderr instead or in addition to stdout. ([#106146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106146), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

- Kube-apiserver: multiple comma-separated protocols in a single X-Stream-Protocol-Version header are now recognized, in addition to multiple headers, complying with RFC2616 ([#89857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89857), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu)) [SIG API Machinery]

  a) transformation error e.g. decryption failure, or b) the object failed to decode. Normal deletion flow is
  attempted first, and if it fails with a corrupt resource error then it triggers unsafe delete.
  In addition, when this feature is enabled, the 'details' field of 'Status' from the LIST response
  includes information that identifies the corrupt object(s).

    - [OpenStack](#openstack)
    - [Scheduling](#scheduling)
  - [Notable Features](#notable-features)
    - [Workloads API (apps/v1beta2)](#workloads-api-appsv1beta2)
      - [API Object Additions and Migrations](#api-object-additions-and-migrations)
      - [Behavioral Changes](#behavioral-changes)
      - [Defaults](#defaults)
    - [Workloads API (batch)](#workloads-api-batch)
      - [CLI Changes](#cli-changes)