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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.

- Prevented watch cache starvation by moving its watch to separate RPC. Added a `SeparateCacheWatchRPC` feature flag to disable this behavior. ([#123532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123532), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

### OpenStack

SIG-OpenStack updated the OpenStack provider to use newer APIs, consolidated community code into one repository, engaged with the Cloud Provider Working Group to have a consistent plan for moving provider code into individual repositories, improved testing of provider code, and strengthened ties with the OpenStack developer community.

### API-machinery

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CSI storage on Windows nodes, [CSIProxy](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy) enables CSI node plugins to be deployed as unprivileged pods, using the proxy to perform privileged storage operations on the node.

Another feature moving to GA in v1.22 is CSI Service Account Token support. This feature allows CSI drivers to use pods' [bound service account tokens](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/service-accounts-admin/#bound-service-account-token-volume) instead...

- **API Machinery**
  - [beta] `kube-apiserver` support for the OpenAPI spec is moving from alpha to beta. The first [non-go client](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python) is based on it ([kubernetes/features#53](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/53))
- **Apps**

Kubernetes 1.15 consists of **25 enhancements**: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are:

#### Continuous Improvement

MinIO FIPS executables are available at <http://dl.min.io> - they are only published for `linux-amd64` architecture as binary files with the suffix `.fips`. We also publish corresponding container images to our official image repositories.