- Enhanced event messages for pod failed for exec probe timeout ([#106201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106201), [@yxxhero](https://github.com/yxxhero)) [SIG Node]

- Kubelet: security of dynamic resource allocation was enhanced by limiting node access to those objects that are needed on the node. ([#116254](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116254), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Auth and Testing]

Major features for stateful applications include automated updates to StatefulSets, enhanced updates for DaemonSets, a burst mode for faster StatefulSets scaling, and (alpha) support for local storage.

### SIG Network

[SIG Network][] is responsible for networking components, APIs, and plugins in Kubernetes.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Network enhanced the NetworkPolicy API to support pod egress traffic policies.

- Enhanced the Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) with an updated version of the resource.k8s.io API group. The primary user-facing type remains the ResourceClaim, however significant changes have been made, resulting in the new version, v1alpha3, which is not...

- The NodeAffinity plugin implements the PreFilter extension, offering enhanced performance for Filter. ([#99213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99213), [@AliceZhang2016](https://github.com/AliceZhang2016)) [SIG Scheduling]

    <glob pattern="*.dpx"/>
  </mime-type>

  <mime-type type="image/emf">
    <alias type="image/x-emf"/>
    <alias type="application/x-emf"/>
    <acronym>EMF</acronym>
    <_comment>Enhanced Metafile</_comment>
    <tika:link>https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc230711.aspx</tika:link>
    <glob pattern="*.emf"/>
    <magic priority="50">
      <match value="0x01000000" type="string" offset="0">

### SIG AWS

### kubeadm
* **[beta]** Introduces an API for clients to request TLS certificates from the API server. See the [tutorial](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tls/managing-tls-in-a-cluster).

- The scheduler implemented `QueueingHint` in VolumeBinding plugin's CSIDriver event, which enhanced the throughput of scheduling. ([#125171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125171), [@YamasouA](https://github.com/YamasouA)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]