- [CHANGELOG-1.2.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.2.md)
- [CHANGELOG-1.3.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.3.md)
- [CHANGELOG-1.4.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.4.md)
- [CHANGELOG-1.5.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.5.md)

forwarded to kubelet static pods to control pull policy for etcd and control plane images. This option allows for precise image pull policy specification for master nodes and thus for more tight control over images. It is useful in CI environments and in environments, where the user has total control over master VM templates (thus, the master VM templates can be preloaded with the required Docker images for the control plane services). ([#58960](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58960),...

- Scheduler doesn't run plugin's Filter method when its PreFilter method returned a Skip status.
  In other words, your PreFilter/Filter plugin can return a Skip status in PreFilter if the plugin does nothing in Filter for that Pod.
  Scheduler skips NodeAffinity Filter plugin when NodeAffinity Filter plugin has nothing to do with a Pod.

- Pod status updates faster when reacting on probe results. The first readiness probe will be called faster when startup probes succeeded, which will make Pod status as ready faster. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

- [v1.8.0-rc.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-rc1)
- [v1.8.0-beta.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-beta1)
- [v1.8.0-alpha.3](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-alpha3)
- [v1.8.0-alpha.2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-alpha2)

- The scheduler skips the `PodTopologySpread` Filter plugin if no spread constraints.
  It will affect some metrics values related to the `PodTopologySpread` Filter plugin. ([#117683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117683), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k))

* Report accurate status for kubernetes-master and -worker charms. ([#65187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65187), [@kwmonroe](https://github.com/kwmonroe))

- [migration phase 1] PodFitsHostPorts as filter plugin ([#83659](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83659), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))
- [migration phase 1] PodFitsResources as framework plugin ([#83650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83650), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

- Filter published OpenAPI schema by making nullable, required fields non-required in order to avoid kubectl to wrongly reject null values. ([#85722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Kubernetes cluster on GCE have crictl installed now. Users can use it to help debug their node. The documentation of crictl can be found https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-tools/blob/master/docs/crictl.md. ([#63357](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...