### Apps

The core workloads API, which is composed of the DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet kinds, has been promoted to GA stability in the apps/v1 group version. As such, the apps/v1beta2 group version is deprecated, and all new code should use the kinds in the apps/v1 group version.

### Auth

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion`...

available only if you\n   * include `popper-utils.js` before `popper.js`.\n   *\n   * **DEPRECATION**: This way to access PopperUtils is deprecated\n   * and will be removed in v2! Use the PopperUtils module directly instead.\n   * Due to the high instability of the methods contained in Utils, we can't\n   * guarantee them to follow semver. Use them at your own risk!\n   * @static\n   * @private\n   * @type {Object}\n   * @deprecated since version 1.8\n   * @member Utils\n   * @memberof Popper\n   */\n...

  * **beta** PodSecurityPolicy objects limits use of security-sensitive features by pods.
* Kubectl
  * Display line number on JSON errors
  * Add flag -t as shorthand for --tty
* Resources
  * Improved node stability by *optionally* evicting pods upon memory pressure - [Design Doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.3/docs/proposals/kubelet-eviction.md)

   ([#113329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113329), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar))
- '`registered_metric_total` will now report the number of metrics broken down by
  stability level and deprecated version.'
   ([#112907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112907), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

tolerate the NoSchedule taint if the taint is added to a Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190)).

* Protobuf...

## External Dependencies

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion`...

API CRUD semantics, admission control, encoding/decoding, conversion, defaulting, persistence layer (etcd), OpenAPI, third-party resources, garbage collection, and client libraries.

For the 1.8 release, SIG API Machinery focused on stability and on ecosystem enablement. Features include the ability to break large LIST calls into smaller chunks, improved support for API server customization with either custom API servers or Custom Resource Definitions, and client side event spam filtering....

The Cluster API effort is currently undergoing a complete rehaul of the existing codebase, moving off Terraform and into using govmomi directly.

### SIG-windows

SIG Windows focused on stability and reliability of our existing feature set. We primarily fixed bugs as we march towards a near future stable release.

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