Its type must be a <a href="#Type_definitions">defined</a> type <code>T</code> or a
pointer to a defined type <code>T</code>, possibly followed by a list of type parameter
names <code>[P1, P2, …]</code> enclosed in square brackets.
<code>T</code> is called the receiver <i>base type</i>. A receiver base type cannot be
a pointer or interface type and it must be defined in the same package as the method.

- `kubeadm reset` now cleans up custom etcd data path ([#70003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70003), [@yagonobre](https://github.com/yagonobre))
- kubeadm: Fixed unnecessary upgrades caused by undefined order of Volumes and VolumeMounts in manifests ([#70027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70027), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

    Potential impacts:

- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.
   ([#122058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122058), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.

### SIG Scheduling

- The equivalence class cache has been redesigned to be a two level cache, resulting in a significant increase in scheduling throughput and performance. ([#65714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65714), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

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*   You can now use a new supported service annotation for AWS clusters, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-negotiation-policy`, which lets you specify which [predefined AWS SSL policy](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-security-policy-table.html) you would like to use. ([#54507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54507),[ @micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))...

- Specifying the KUBE_TEST_REPO environment variable when e2e tests are executed will instruct the test infrastructure to load that image from a location within the specified repo, using a predefined pattern. ([#93510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93510), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Testing]

    * Introduce a RuntimeClass v1beta1 API. This new beta API renames `runtimeHandler` to `handler`, makes it a required field,...

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created
documentation for the current scalability thresholds, and defined a new set of
Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the system.
Here's the release [scalability validation report].