## Changelog since v1.13.7

### Other notable changes

* Fix possible fd leak and closing of dirs in doSafeMakeDir  ([#79534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79534), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

- Fixes issue with websocket-based watches of Service objects not closing correctly on timeout ([#102541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102541), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fixed attachment of AWS volumes that have just been detached. ([#83567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83567), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
- Fix possible fd leak and closing of dirs when using openstack ([#82873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82873), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

* Restores the ability of older clients to delete and scale jobs with initContainers. ([#59880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59880), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fixed a race condition causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking. ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* GCE: Internal load balancer IPs are now reserved during service sync to prevent losing the address to another service. ([#51055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51055), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

In particular, the following storage features are moving to GA in Kubernetes 1.18:
- Raw Block Support: Allow volumes to be surfaced as block devices inside containers instead of just mounted filesystems.
- Volume Cloning: Duplicate a PersistentVolumeClaim and underlying storage volume using the Kubernetes API via CSI.
- CSIDriver Kubernetes API Object: Simplifies CSI driver discovery and allows CSI Drivers to customize Kubernetes behavior.

    For more details, see [Advanced audit](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit/#advanced-audit).

* The deprecated `ThirdPartyResource` (TPR) API was removed.
  To avoid losing your TPR data, [migrate to CustomResourceDefinition](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/migrate-third-party-resource/).

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kube-controller-manager`:

- Fixed `creationTimestamp: null` causing unnecessary writes to etcd. ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

* Increase Azure default maximumLoadBalancerRuleCount to 250. ([#72621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72621), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes bug in DaemonSetController causing it to stop processing some DaemonSets for 5 minutes after node removal. ([#76060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76060), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))