* Note that the prototype does not support quiescing before snapshot, so snapshots might be inconsistent.

  * In the prototype phase, this feature is external to the core Kubernetes. It's available at https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-storage/tree/master/snapshot.

### Cluster Federation

#### [alpha] Federated Jobs

- The extension API server can now dynamically discover the requestheader CA certificate when the core API server doesn't use certificate based authentication for it's clients. ([#66394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66394), [@rtripat](https://github.com/rtripat))

### SIG Autoscaling

- Changed core_pattern on COS nodes to be an absolute path. ([#86329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86329), [@mml](https://github.com/mml)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]

- Disable watchcache for events.k8.io/Event resource for compatibility with core/Event. ([#96117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96117), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Scalability]

- Kube-apiserver: regular expressions specified with the `--cors-allowed-origins` option are now validated to match the entire `hostname` inside the `Origin` header of the request and 
  must contain '^' or the '//' prefix to anchor to the start, and '$' or the port separator ':' to anchor to 

*   You can once again use 0 values for conntrack min, max, max per core, tcp close wait timeout, and tcp established timeout; this functionality was broken in 1.8. ([#55261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55261),[ @ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))

#### **CoreDNS**

version. ([#58973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58973), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

* The default Flexvolume plugin directory for COS images on GCE has changed to `/home/kubernetes/flexvolume`, rather than `/etc/srv/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec`. Existing Flexvolume installations in clusters using COS images must be moved to the new directory, and installation processes must be updated with the new path. ([#58171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58171),...

  2. A new CrossNamespacePodAffinity quota scope API that allows restricting which namespaces allowed to use PodAffinityTerm with corss-namespace reference via namespaceSelector or namespaces fields. ([#98582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98582), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

Kubectl flag `--container-port` flag is deprecated: it will be removed in the future, please use `--target-port` instead.

#### kubernetes Core Known Issues

- Kube Proxy crashes infrequently due to a docker bug ([#24000](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/24000))
  - This issue can be resolved by restarting docker daemon
- CORS works only in insecure mode ([#24086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/24086))

    * separate URL.  Distributed claims are of the form as seen below, and are
    * defined in the OIDC Connect Core 1.0, section 5.6.2.
    * For details, see:
    * http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#AggregatedDistributedClaims