- Fixed a deep copy issue when retrieving the controller reference. ([#124116](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124116), [@HiranmoyChowdhury](https://github.com/HiranmoyChowdhury)) [SIG API Machinery and Release]

- CEL CRD validation expressions may now reference existing object state using the identifier `oldSelf`. ([#108073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108073), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))
- CRD deep copies should no longer contain shallow copies of `JSONSchemaProps.XValidations`. ([#107956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107956), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

of pods scheduled on a node.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Node continued to focus
on a broad set of workload types, including hardware and performance
sensitive workloads such as data analytics and deep learning. The SIG also
delivered incremental improvements to node reliability.

[SIG Node]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-node

### SIG Network

* Update gogo/protobuf to serialize backward, as to get better performance on deep objects. ([#77355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77355), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- Improved Node's QueueingHint in the `NodeAffinity` plugin by ignoring unrelated changes that keep pods unschedulable. ([#127444](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127444), [@dom4ha](https://github.com/dom4ha)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

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* Fix an issue that pods using hostNetwork keep increasing. ([#67456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67456), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Kube-apiserver: sets an upper-bound on the lifetime of idle keep-alive connections and time to read the headers of incoming requests ([#103958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103958), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

## Dependencies

- The feature gate was mentioned as `csiMigrationRBD` where it should have been `CSIMigrationRBD` to be in parity with other migration plugins. This release correct the same and keep it as `CSIMigrationRBD`.
  

change, the default `admin.conf` was bound to `system:masters` Group, which was undesired. Executing `kubeadm init phase kubeconfig all` or just `kubeadm init` will now generate the new `super-admin.conf` file. The cluster admin can then decide to keep the file present on a node host or move it to a safe location. `kubadm certs renew` will renew the certificate in `super-admin.conf` to one year if the file exists; if it does not exist a "MISSING" note will be printed. `kubeadm upgrade apply` for...