- Track Job completion through status and Pod finalizers, removing dependency on Pod tombstones. ([#98238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98238), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix isCurrentInstance for Windows by removing the dependency of hostname. ([#89138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89138), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

*   The overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O now work properly. ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827),[ @dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
*   Removed docker dependency during kubelet start up. ([#54405](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54405),[ @resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

        }
    }

    /**
     * Initializes the search engine client and configures indices.
     * Called automatically after dependency injection is complete.
     */
    @PostConstruct
    public void open() {
        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            logger.debug("Initializing {}", this.getClass().getSimpleName());
        }

## Changelog since v1.15.2

### Other notable changes

* Update golang/x/net dependency to bring in fixes for CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514 ([#81522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81522), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))

* Fix hyperkube kubelet --experimental-dockershim ([#55250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55250), [@ivan4th](https://github.com/ivan4th))
* ScaleIO driver completely removes dependency on drv_cfg binary so a Kubernetes cluster can easily run a containerized kubelet. ([#54956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54956), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))



# v1.8.3

- Bumped kube-dns to v1.26.4. ([#132012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132012), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

* Update to use go 1.12.9 ([#81489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81489), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))
* Update golang/x/net dependency to bring in fixes for CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514 ([#81525](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81525), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))

- kubeadm: removed preflight check for existence of the conntrack binary, as conntrack is no longer a kube-proxy dependency in version 1.32 and newer. ([#126953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126953), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- Reduced event spam during volume operation errors in the Portworx in-tree driver. ([#135081](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135081), [@gohilankit](https://github.com/gohilankit))
- Removed `rsync` as a dependency to build Kubernetes. ([#134656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134656), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]