- `PidPressure` now evicts pods from lowest priority to highest priority ([#72844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72844), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Replace scale down forbidden window with scale down stabilization window. Rather than waiting a fixed period of time between scale downs HPA now scales down to the highest recommendation it during the scale down stabilization window. ([#68122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68122), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

*   A new scheduling queue helps schedule the highest priority pending pod first. ([#55109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55109),[ @bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Added a mechanism that calculates a digest of etcd and the watch cache every 5 minutes and exposes it as the `apiserver_storage_digest` metric. ([#130475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130475), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation...

- DRA: scheduling pods is up to 16x faster, depending on the scenario. Scheduling throughput depends a lot on cluster utilization. It is higher for lightly loaded clusters with free resources and gets lower when the cluster utilization increases. ([#127277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth,...

upgrading, and deleting clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Cluster Lifecycle continued to focus on expanding the
capabilities of kubeadm, which is both a user-facing tool to manage clusters
and a building block for higher-level provisioning systems. Starting
with the 1.8 release, kubeadm supports a new upgrade command and includes alpha
support for self hosting the cluster control plane.

- github.com/karrick/godirwalk: [v1.7.5 → v1.16.1](https://github.com/karrick/godirwalk/compare/v1.7.5...v1.16.1)
- github.com/opencontainers/go-digest: [v1.0.0-rc1 → v1.0.0](https://github.com/opencontainers/go-digest/compare/v1.0.0-rc1...v1.0.0)
- github.com/opencontainers/runc: [819fcc6 → v1.0.0-rc92](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/819fcc6...v1.0.0-rc92)

how

// hsbc : HSBC Global Services (UK) Limited
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hsbc.html
hsbc

// hughes : Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hughes.html
hughes

// hyatt : Hyatt GTLD, L.L.C.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hyatt.html
hyatt

// hyundai : Hyundai Motor Company

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112399), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

- github.com/onsi/gomega: [5533ce8 → v1.5.0](https://github.com/onsi/gomega/compare/5533ce8...v1.5.0)
- github.com/opencontainers/go-digest: [a6d0ee4 → v1.0.0-rc1](https://github.com/opencontainers/go-digest/compare/a6d0ee4...v1.0.0-rc1)
- github.com/opencontainers/image-spec: [372ad78 → v1.0.1](https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/compare/372ad78...v1.0.1)