* Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

* [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.1. [[@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)]

  as a failure until that Pod is terminal (its `.status.phase` is `Failed` or `Succeeded`).
  
  However, the Job controller creates a replacement Pod as soon as the termination becomes apparent.
  Once the pod terminates, the Job controller evaluates `.backoffLimit` and `.podFailurePolicy` for the
  relevant Job, taking this now-terminated Pod into consideration.
  

- [KCCM - service controller]: enabled connection draining for terminating pods upon node downscale by the cluster autoscaler. This is done by not reacting to the taint used by the cluster autoscaler to indicate that the node is going away soon, thus keeping the node referenced by the load balancer until the VM has been completely deleted. ([#115204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115204), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

  - in cases where the client specifies a timeout in the request URL, the overall request deadline is shortened now since the deadline is setup as soon as the request is received by the apiserver. ([#96901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96901), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Added `apiserver_longrunning_requests` metric to replace the soon to be deprecated `apiserver_longrunning_gauge` metric. ([#103799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103799), [@jyz0309](https://github.com/jyz0309))

- Promote StatefulSet minReadySeconds to GA. This means `--feature-gates=StatefulSetMinReadySeconds=true` are not needed on kube-apiserver and kube-controller-manager binaries and they'll be removed soon following policy at https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-policy/#deprecation ([#110896](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110896), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- github.com/shirou/gopsutil: [c95755e](https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/tree/c95755e)
- github.com/shirou/w32: [bb4de01](https://github.com/shirou/w32/tree/bb4de01)
- github.com/shurcooL/go-goon: [37c2f52](https://github.com/shurcooL/go-goon/tree/37c2f52)
- github.com/shurcooL/go: [9e1955d](https://github.com/shurcooL/go/tree/9e1955d)
- github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff: [v0.5.1](https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff/tree/v0.5.1)

      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to
      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*
      endpoints, rather than waiting until all of the terminating
      endpoints have terminated even when those terminating endpoints
      were not being used.