### Other notable changes

* CustomResourceDefinitions: OpenAPI v3 validation schemas containing `$ref`references are no longer permitted (valid references could not be constructed previously because property ids were not permitted either). Before upgrading, ensure CRD definitions do not include those `$ref` fields. ([#58438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58438), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

use-cases, including network latency sensitive applications, as well as applications that benefit from CPU cache residency.  Next, [Huge Pages](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-hugepages/scheduling-hugepages/), which allows pods to consume either 2Mi or 1Gi Huge Pages.  This benefits applications that consume large amounts of memory.  Use of Huge Pages is a common tuning recommendation for databases and JVMs.  Finally, the [Device Plugin](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-admini...

### Bug or Regression

- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]

* Allow access to ClusterIP from the host network namespace when kube-proxy is started in IPVS mode without either masqueradeAll or clusterCIDR flags ([#65388](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65388), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

2) Alpha for CSI specification 0.3 integration to AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)

For the 1.8 release, SIG API Machinery focused on stability and on ecosystem enablement. Features include the ability to break large LIST calls into smaller chunks, improved support for API server customization with either custom API servers or Custom Resource Definitions, and client side event spam filtering.

[Sig API Machinery]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-api-machinery

### SIG Apps

  - Different configuration types can be supplied all in the same file separated by `---`.
- Improved CRI handling
  - crictl is no longer required in docker-only setups.
  - Better detection of installed CRI.
  - Better output for image pull errors.
- Improved air-gapped and offline support
  - kubeadm now handles air-gapped environments by using the local client version as a fallback.

- EndpointSlice controller now handles terminating pods correctly and is better at preventing race conditions. ([#89118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89118), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

  So, if you want to just keep the existing behavior, you can register `ClusterEventWithHint` with no `QueueingHintFn` in it. 
  But, registering appropriate `QueueingHintFn` is, of course, better from a scheduling performance perspective. ([#118551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118551), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

### API Change

#### New API types/versions:
- A new IngressClass resource has been added to enable better Ingress configuration. ([#88509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88509), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Network, Node and Testing]