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.
- CSIDriver Kubernetes API Object: Simplifies CSI driver discovery and allows CSI Drivers to customize Kubernetes behavior.

* GCE: Internal load balancer IPs are now reserved during service sync to prevent losing the address to another service. ([#51055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51055), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

h.inner.Write(h.ipad) // If the underlying hash is marshalable, we can save some time by saving a // copy of the hash state now, and restoring it on future calls to Reset and // Sum instead of writing ipad/opad every time. // // We do this on Reset to avoid slowing down the common single-use case. // // This is allowed by FIPS 198-1, Section 6: "Conceptually, the intermediate // results of the compression function on the B-byte blocks (K0 ⊕ ipad) and // (K0 ⊕ opad) can be precomputed once, at the time of generation...

h.inner.Write(h.ipad) // If the underlying hash is marshalable, we can save some time by saving a // copy of the hash state now, and restoring it on future calls to Reset and // Sum instead of writing ipad/opad every time. // // We do this on Reset to avoid slowing down the common single-use case. // // This is allowed by FIPS 198-1, Section 6: "Conceptually, the intermediate // results of the compression function on the B-byte blocks (K0 ⊕ ipad) and // (K0 ⊕ opad) can be precomputed once, at the time of generation...