* Metadata Agent Improvements ([#66485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66485), [@bmoyles0117](https://github.com/bmoyles0117))
    * Bump metadata agent version to 0.2-0.0.21-1.
    * Expand the metadata agent's access to all API groups.

### Auth

* Don't log private SSH key ([#24506](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24506), [@timstclair](https://github.com/timstclair))
* Incremental improvements to kubelet e2e tests ([#24426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24426), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))

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

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- Kubeadm: apply further improvements to the tentative support for concurrent etcd member join. Fixes a bug where multiple members can receive the same hostname. Increase the etcd client dial timeout and retry timeout for add/remove/... operations. ([#87505](https://github.com/kub...

    - [Cluster-wide seccomp defaults](#cluster-wide-seccomp-defaults)
    - [Quality of Service for memory resources](#quality-of-service-for-memory-resources)
    - [API changes and improvements for ephemeral containers](#api-changes-and-improvements-for-ephemeral-containers)
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  - StatefulSets are beta now (fixes and stabilization)
- Improved Federation Support
  - New command: `kubefed`
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  - Improvements to `kubeadm`
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- Node Robustness and Extensibility
  - Windows Server Container support
  - CRI for pluggable container runtimes
  - `kubelet` API supports authentication and authorization

- Performance improvements in `klog` ([#115277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

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