- Added matchConditions field to ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and enabled support for CEL based custom match criteria. ([#116350](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116350), [@maxsmythe](https://github.com/maxsmythe))
- Added new option to the `InterPodAffinity` scheduler plugin to ignore existing

[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.
The SIG also provided match criteria that allow policy rules to match a source or destination CIDR. Both features are in beta. SIG Network also improved the kube-proxy to include an alpha IPVS mode in addition to the current iptables and userspace modes.