For the 1.8 release, SIG Node continued to focus
on a broad set of workload types, including hardware and performance
sensitive workloads such as data analytics and deep learning. The SIG also
delivered incremental improvements to node reliability.

[SIG Node]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-node

### SIG Network

[SIG Network][] is responsible for networking components, APIs, and plugins in Kubernetes.

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    - [CSIDriver policy for FSGroup graduates to Beta](#csidriver-policy-for-fsgroup-graduates-to-beta)
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