- Added progress tracking for volume permission and ownership changes. ([#130398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130398), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]

- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

* `tf.lite`
    * Added support for `stablehlo.scatter`.

* `tf.estimator`
    * The tf.estimator API removal is in progress and will be targeted for the 2.16 release.

## Keras

- Fixed a bug in storage-version-migrator-controller that would cause migration attempts to fail if resources were deleted when the migration was in progress. ([#126107](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126107), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- The `e2e.test` binary no longer emits JSON structs to document progress. ([#113212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113212), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

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.

* Fix inconsistent Prometheus cAdvisor metrics ([#51473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51473), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham))
* Fixed an issue reporting lack of progress for a deployment prematurely ([#52178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52178), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))

    assertThat(reader.nextPart()).isNull()
  }

  /**
   * Read 100 MiB of 'a' chars. This was really slow due to a performance bug in [MultipartReader],
   * and will be really slow if we regress the fix for that.
   */
  @Test
  fun `reading a large part with small byteCount`() {
    val multipartBody =
      MultipartBody
        .Builder("foo")
        .addPart(