- kube-proxy initialization waits for all pre-sync events from node and serviceCIDR informers to be delivered. ([#126561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126561), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]

- Kube-apiserver: fixed a 1.27+ regression watching a single namespace via the deprecated /api/v1/watch/namespaces/$name endpoint where watch events were not delivered after the watch was established. ([#125145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125145), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

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

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression watching a single namespace via the deprecated /api/v1/watch/namespaces/$name endpoint where watch events were not delivered after the watch was established ([#126153](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126153), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression watching a single namespace via the deprecated /api/v1/watch/namespaces/$name endpoint where watch events were not delivered after the watch was established ([#126151](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126151), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression watching a single namespace via the deprecated /api/v1/watch/namespaces/$name endpoint where watch events were not delivered after the watch was established ([#126150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126150), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

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* Fixed a race condition in k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache.SharedInformer that could violate the sequential delivery guarantee and cause panics on shutdown in Kubernetes 1.8.* and 1.9.*. ([#59828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59828), [@krousey](https://github.com/krousey))

* Bump Heapster to v1.5.2 ([#61396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61396), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* Fixed a race condition in k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache.SharedInformer that could violate the sequential delivery guarantee and cause panics on shutdown. ([#59828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59828), [@krousey](https://github.com/krousey))

## What’s New (Major Themes)

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha.

The main themes of this release are: