- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99315](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99315), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed cleanup of block devices when /var/lib/kubelet is a symlink. ([#96889](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96889), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

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.
- Volume Cloning: Duplicate a PersistentVolumeClaim and underlying storage volume using the Kubernetes API via CSI.

1) Alpha for AWS ALB (Application Load Balancer) integration to Kubernetes Ingress resources.
2) Alpha for CSI specification 0.3 integration to AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)

- Fixed a regression preventing garbage collection of RBAC role and binding objects ([#90534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90534), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG Auth]
- Fixed cleanup of raw block devices after kubelet restart. ([#83451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83451), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Node, Storage and Testing]

#### Deployments
* [beta] Deployments uses a hashing collision avoidance mechanism that ensures new rollouts will not block on hashing collisions anymore. ([kubernetes/features#287](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/287))

#### PodDisruptionBudget

* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))
* removed unsafe double RLock in cpumanager ([#62464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62464), [@choury](https://github.com/choury))



# v1.8.12

* fix: make azure disk URI as case insensitive ([#79020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79020), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

```Python
async def do_something():
    try:
        yield something
    finally:
        some_cleanup()
```

...that way the `finally` block is run regardless of any exception that might happen.

### Features

### Bug or Regression

- Allow deletion of pods that use raw block volumes on node reboot ([#122211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122211), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]

      * If you are using plugins other than `bridge`, make sure you have
        updated custom plugins to the latest version that is compatible.
* **CNI plugins now affect node readiness**
  * Kubelet will now block node readiness until a CNI configuration file is
    present in `/etc/cni/net.d` or a given custom CNI configuration path.
    [This change](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43474) ensures