- Added warnings about workload resources (Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, Jobs, CronJobs, or ReplicationControllers) whose names are not valid DNS labels. ([#114412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114412), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

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.

- Pods which set `hostNetwork: true` and declare ports, get the `hostPort` field set automatically. Previously this would happen in the PodTemplate of a Deployment, DaemonSet or other workload API.  Now `hostPort` will only be set when an actual Pod is being created.  If this presents a problem, setting the feature gate "DefaultHostNetworkHostPortsInPodTemplates" to true will revert this behavior.  Please file a kubernetes bug if you need...

### Bug or Regression

- (PodSecurity admission) errors validating workload resources (deployment, replicaset, etc.) no longer block admission. ([#106017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106017), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG Auth]

With cluster-wide seccomp defaults, the kubelet uses the `RuntimeDefault` seccomp profile by default, rather than than `Unconfined`. This allows enhancing the default cluster wide workload security of the Kubernetes deployment. Security administrators will now sleep better knowing there is some security by default for the workloads.

- Non-graceful node shutdown handling is enabled for stateful workload failovers ([#108486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108486), [@sonasingh46](https://github.com/sonasingh46))