[SIGs]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md


## Major Themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into
[Special Interest Groups][]. For the 1.8 release, each SIG provides the
themes that guided their work.

[Special Interest Groups]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md

### SIG API Machinery

As a newly created SIG, the SIG-ibmcloud has mainly focused on SIG set up, sharing IBM Clouds ongoing Kubernetes work like scalability tests, Kubernetes upgrade strategy etc. with the SIG members and start working on processes to move cloud provider code to a public GitHub repo.

### SIG-instrumentation

No feature work, but a large refactoring of metrics-server as well as a number of bug fixes.

### SIG-node

- If you are using Kubernetes to manage `docker` containers, please be aware Kubernetes has been validated to work with docker 1.9.1, docker 1.11.2 (#23397), and docker 1.12.0 (#28698)
- If you upgrade your apiserver to 1.4.x but leave your kubelets at 1.3.x, they will not report init container status, but init containers will work properly.  Upgrading kubelets to 1.4.x fixes this.

* kube-up (with gce/gci and gce/coreos providers) now ensures the authentication token file contains correct tokens for the control plane components, even if the file already exists (ensures upgrades and downgrades work successfully) ([#43676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43676), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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