### Azure

SIG Azure worked on improvements in the cloud provider, including significant work on the Azure Load Balancer implementation.

### Cluster Lifecycle

### Bug or Regression

- Adds node event handlers to dual stack kube-proxy implementation to fix Topology Aware Hints. ([#101054](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101054), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

### Node Components
* **Kubelet with the Docker-CRI implementation**
  * The Docker-CRI implementation is enabled by default.
  * It is not compatible with containers created by older Kubelets. It is
    recommended to drain your node before upgrade. If you choose to perform

  - `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation has been deprecated.
  - kube-proxy now accepts any value that is not "disabled" for these annotations, enabling custom implementation-specific and/or future built-in heuristics to be used. ([#116522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116522), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

* [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.

- Kubernetes now includes an alpha field, `AllowWatchBookmarks`, in ListOptions for requesting the watching of bookmarks from apiserver. The implementation in apiserver is hidden behind the feature gate `WatchBookmark`. ([#74074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74074), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

### Staging Repositories

    * [Dependencies - First Steps - Share `Annotated` dependencies](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/dependencies/#share-annotated-dependencies)

Special thanks to [@nzig](https://github.com/nzig) for the core implementation and to [@adriangb](https://github.com/adriangb) for the inspiration and idea with [Xpresso](https://github.com/adriangb/xpresso)! 🚀

### Features

increased from v1alpha1 to v1alpha2. Runtimes implementing the CRI will need to update to the new version, which configures container namespaces using an enumeration rather than booleans. This change to the alpha API is not backwards compatible; implementations of the CRI such as containerd, will need to update to the new API version. ([#58973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58973), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

* The default Flexvolume plugin directory for COS images...

- Added swap to stats to Summary API and Prometheus endpoints (stats/summary and /metrics/resource). ([#118865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118865), [@iholder101](https://github.com/iholder101))
- Added the implementation for `PodRecreationPolicy` to wait for the creation of pods once the existing ones are fully terminated. ([#117015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117015), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92))

### SIG-OpenStack