- StatefulSets should always count `.status.availableReplicas` at the correct time without a delay. This results in faster progress of StatefulSet rollout. ([#136097](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136097), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG Apps]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- NONE

### `tf.data`:

*   Adds new `tf.data.experimental.service.register_dataset` and
    `tf.data.experimental.service.from_dataset_id` APIs to enable one process to
    register a dataset with the tf.data service, and another process to consume
    data from the dataset.
*   Adds support for dispatcher fault tolerance. To enable fault tolerance,
    configure a `work_dir` when running your dispatcher server and set

- Fixed a bug in storage-version-migrator-controller that would cause migration attempts to fail if resources were deleted when the migration was in progress. ([#126107](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126107), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- The `e2e.test` binary no longer emits JSON structs to document progress. ([#113212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113212), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

SIG Storage made a lot of progress in the 1.18 release.
In particular, the following storage features are moving to GA in Kubernetes 1.18:
- Raw Block Support: Allow volumes to be surfaced as block devices inside containers instead of just mounted filesystems.

- Updating kubelet permissions check for Windows nodes to see if process is elevated instead of checking if process owner is in Administrators group ([#108146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108146), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset))

* Fix inconsistent Prometheus cAdvisor metrics ([#51473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51473), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham))
* Fixed an issue reporting lack of progress for a deployment prematurely ([#52178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52178), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))

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