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In-tree bug fixes and improvements included:
- Fix load balancer status without VIP.
- Fix filtering of server status.
- Fix resizing PVC of Cinder volume.
- Disable load balancer configuration if it is not defined in cloud config.
- Add support for node shutdown taint.

The external provider includes all of the above with the additional fixes and features:
- Fix bug to prevent allocation of existing floating IP.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created
documentation for the current scalability thresholds, and defined a new set of
Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the system.
Here's the release [scalability validation report].

 
## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- CVE-2020-8557 (Medium): Node-local denial of service via container /etc/hosts file. See https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/93032 for more details. ([#92916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92916), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG Node]

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node
updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. You are only affected
by this vulnerability if you run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes
that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the
Node object.

**Note**: This only impacts validating admission plugins that rely on old
values in certain fields, and does not impact calls from kubelets that go

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