tolerate the NoSchedule taint if the taint is added to a Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190)).

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- Change `pod_preemption_victims` metric from Gauge to Histogram. ([#83603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83603), [@Tabrizian](https://github.com/Tabrizian))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:

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- Kube-apiserver: Fixed a `1.27`+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a `resourceVersion` from the watch cache by default, as in <`1.27` (disabling the change in PR 115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in PR 115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion`...

## External Dependencies

New features include improved integration between the Keystone service and Kubernetes RBAC, and a number of stability and compatibility improvements across the entire provider code-base.

### SIG Scheduling

For the 1.8 release, SIG API Machinery focused on stability and on ecosystem enablement. Features include the ability to break large LIST calls into smaller chunks, improved support for API server customization with either custom API servers or Custom Resource Definitions, and client side event spam filtering.

  * **beta** PodSecurityPolicy objects limits use of security-sensitive features by pods.
* Kubectl
  * Display line number on JSON errors
  * Add flag -t as shorthand for --tty
* Resources
  * Improved node stability by *optionally* evicting pods upon memory pressure - [Design Doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.3/docs/proposals/kubelet-eviction.md)

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     * modifications before recheck.)  Method containsValue() uses similar constructions for
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