### SIG Autoscaling

[SIG Autoscaling][] is responsible for autoscaling-related components,
such as the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Autoscaling continued to focus on stabilizing
features introduced in previous releases: the new version of the
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler API, which supports custom metrics, and
the Cluster Autoscaler, which provides improved performance and error reporting.

### SIG Multicluster

StaticPodPath, ManifestURL is renamed to StaticPodURL, and ManifestURLHeader is renamed to StaticPodURLHeader. Users should focus on switching to the v1beta1 API. ([#60314](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60314), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

* The DevicePlugins feature has graduated to beta, and is now enabled by default; users should focus on moving to the v1beta API if possible. ([#60170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60170), [@jiayingz](http...

### SIG-OpenStack

executing **your own code**, and particularly, **waiting for the network**. But you will probably still get some nice performance improvements just from the upgrade.

The focus of this release is **compatibility** with Pydantic v1 and v2, to make sure your current apps keep working. Later there will be more focus on refactors, correctness, code improvements, and then **performance** improvements. Some third-party early beta testers that ran benchmarks on the beta releases of FastAPI reported...

### Cluster Lifecycle Stability and Usability Improvements

In addition, the NodeRestriction admission plugin now prevents kubelets from modifying taints on their Node API objects, making it easier to keep track of which nodes should be in use.

### SIG CLI