*   Docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu can now be disabled ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260),[ @yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

## 1.15 What’s New

A complete changelog for the release notes is now hosted in a customizable format at [https://relnotes.k8s.io/](https://relnotes.k8s.io/?releaseVersions=1.15.0). Check it out and please give us your feedback!

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

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixed an issue related to not draining all the pods in...

appends a 160-byte encoding of a ring element to s, // compressing eight coefficients per five bytes. // // It implements Compress₅, according to FIPS 203, Definition 4.7, // followed by ByteEncode₅, according to FIPS 203, Algorithm 5. func ringCompressAndEncod(s []byte, f ringElement) []byte { return ringCompressAndEncod(s, f, 5) } // ringDecodeAndDecompr decodes a 160-byte encoding of a ring element where // each five bits are mapped to an equidistant distribution. // // It implements ByteDecode₅, according...

appends a 160-byte encoding of a ring element to s, // compressing eight coefficients per five bytes. // // It implements Compress₅, according to FIPS 203, Definition 4.7, // followed by ByteEncode₅, according to FIPS 203, Algorithm 5. func ringCompressAndEncod(s []byte, f ringElement) []byte { return ringCompressAndEncod(s, f, 5) } // ringDecodeAndDecompr decodes a 160-byte encoding of a ring element where // each five bits are mapped to an equidistant distribution. // // It implements ByteDecode₅, according...

We are also continuing our long running effort to extract all the existing cloud providers that live in k8s.io/kubernetes into their own respective repos. Along with this migration, we are slowly transitioning users to use the cloud-controller-manager for any cloud provider features instead of the kube-controller-manager.

## Changelog since v1.17.0

A complete changelog for the release notes is now hosted in a customizable
format at [https://relnotes.k8s.io][1]. Check it out and please give us your
feedback!

[1]: https://relnotes.k8s.io/?releaseVersions=1.18.0

## What’s New (Major Themes)

### Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!

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* [Auditing](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/audit/) is now enabled behind a featureGate in kubeadm. A user can supply their own audit policy with configuration option as well as a place for the audit logs to live. If no policy is supplied a default policy will be provided. The default policy will log all Metadata level policy logs. It is the example provided in the documentation. ([#59067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59067), [@chuckha](ht...

- kube-controller-manager currently needs a writable `--cert-dir` (default is `/var/run/kubernetes`) for...