- Reduce default NodeStatusReportFrequency to 5 minutes. With this change, periodic node status updates will be send every 5m if node status doesn't change (otherwise they are still send with 10s).

*   [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes is now v1.9. [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]
    *   Pass all the Kubernetes 1.9 end-to-end test suites and now gating PRs as well
    *   Pass all the CRI validation tests
    *   Release has been focused on bug fixes, stability and performance with runc and Clear Containers
    *   Minikube integration

* Adds deleting pods created by DaemonSet assigned to not existing nodes. ([#73401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73401), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))
* Fix watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to version 1.3.7. ([#74136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74136), [@jkaniuk](https://github.com/jkaniuk))
* Fix watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Fixed an issue where the API server did not send impersonated UID to authentication webhooks. ([#116681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116681), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

* [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]

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

### SIG Multicluster

- The audit event sourceIPs list will now always end with the IP that sent the request directly to the API server. ([#87167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87167), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]