- Fixed an issue where the Service LoadBalancer controller was not correctly considering the `service.Status new IPMode` field and excluding the Ports when checking if the status was changed, resulting in the changed field potentially not to update the `service.Status` correctly. ([#125225](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125225), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG...

### Azure

SIG Azure worked on improvements in the cloud provider, including significant work on the Azure Load Balancer implementation.

### Cluster Lifecycle

This release supports more of Kubernetes API for pods and containers on Windows, including:

* Metrics for Pod, Container, Log filesystem
* The run_as_user security contexts
* Local persistent volumes and fstype for Azure disk

Improvements in Windows Server version 1803 also bring new storage functionality to Kubernetes v1.11, including:

* Volume mounts for ConfigMap and Secret

interactions between pods and host resources, and manage the lifecycle
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.

    in v1.6.0 causes `kubeadm init` to hang. Please use v1.6.1, which fixes the issue.
  * All communication is now over TLS
  * Authorization plugins can be installed by kubeadm, including the new default of RBAC
  * The bootstrap token system now allows token management and expiration

- Azure global rate limit is switched to per-client. A set of new rate limit configure options are introduced, including routeRateLimit, SubnetsRateLimit, InterfaceRateLimit, RouteTableRateLimit, LoadBalancerRateLimit, PublicIPAddressRateLimit, SecurityGroupRateLimit, VirtualMachineRateLimit, StorageAccountRateLimit, DiskRateLimit, SnapshotRateLimit, VirtualMachineScaleSetRateLimit...

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  

- Resolves issue with `/readyz` and `/livez` not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

### Auth

    * The body size limit does not apply to subresources like pods/proxy that proxy request content to another server.