- Improved handling of jsonpath expressions for `kubectl wait --for`. It is now possible to use simple filter expressions which match on a field's content. ([#118748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118748), [@andreaskaris](https://github.com/andreaskaris))

- github.com/willf/bitset: [d5bec33](https://github.com/willf/bitset/tree/d5bec33)
- gopkg.in/ini.v1: v1.51.0
- gopkg.in/yaml.v3: 9f266ea
- rsc.io/quote/v3: v3.1.0
- rsc.io/sampler: v1.3.0

### Changed
- cloud.google.com/go/bigquery: v1.0.1 → v1.4.0
- cloud.google.com/go/datastore: v1.0.0 → v1.1.0
- cloud.google.com/go/pubsub: v1.0.1 → v1.2.0

- Fix log line in scheduler that inaccurately implies that volume binding has finalized ([#116050](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116050), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]
- Fix race in alpha aggregated discovery handler

"matchesSelector","attr","attrHandle","uniqueSort","duplicates","sortStable","createPseudo","relative",">"," ","+","~","preFilter","excess","unquoted","nodeNameSelector","expectedNodeName","pattern","operator","check","result","what","_argument","simple","forward","ofType","_context","xml","outerCache","nodeIndex","start","parent","useCache","diff","firstChild","lastChild","pseudo","args","setFilters","idx","matched","not","matcher","compile","unmatched","has","lang","elemLang","hash","location"...

- Fixed a data race when emitting similar Events consecutively ([#114236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114236), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))
- Fixed a log line in scheduler that inaccurately implies that volume binding has finalized ([#116018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116018), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK))

- Fix log line in scheduler that inaccurately implies that volume binding has finalized ([#116048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116048), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]

- Add fish shell completion to kubectl. ([#92989](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92989), [@WLun001](https://github.com/WLun001))
- Add mechanism to load simple sniffer class into fluentd-elasticsearch image ([#92853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92853), [@cosmo0920](https://github.com/cosmo0920))
- Add support for Portworx plugin to csi-translation-lib. Alpha release
  

- Projects which use k8s.io/code-generator and invoke `generate-groups` or `generate-internal-groups.sh` have a new, simpler script (`kube_codegen.sh`) they can use.  The old scripts are deprecated but remain intact. ([#117262](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117262), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

* PodSpecs containing parent directory references such as `..` (for example, `../bar`) in hostPath volume path or in volumeMount subpaths must be changed to the simple absolute path. Backsteps `..` are no longer allowed.([#47290](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47290), [@jhorwit2](https://github.com/jhorwit2)).


### API Machinery

### SIG Storage

[SIG Storage][] is responsible for storage and volume plugin components.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Storage extended the Kubernetes storage API. In addition to providing simple
volume availability, the API now enables volume resizing and snapshotting. These features are in alpha.
The SIG also focused on providing more control over storage: the ability to set requests and