- Easier to get a cluster up and running (eg: `kubeadm`, intra-cluster bootstrapping)
  - Easier to understand a cluster (eg: API audit logs, server-based API defaults)
- **Stateful Application Support**
  - Enhanced persistence capabilities (eg: `StorageClasses`, new volume plugins)
  - New resources and scheduler features (eg: `ScheduledJob` resource, pod/node affinity/anti-affinity)
- **Cluster Federation**

* Allow mounts to run in parallel for non-attachable volumes ([#28939](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28939), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))
* add enhanced volume and mount logging for block devices ([#24797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24797), [@screeley44](https://github.com/screeley44))

- Enhanced event messages for pod failed for exec probe timeout ([#106201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106201), [@yxxhero](https://github.com/yxxhero)) [SIG Node]

- Enhanced discovery responses to merge API groups and resources from all peer apiservers when the `UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy` feature is enabled. ([#133648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133648), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker))...

- Kubelet: security of dynamic resource allocation was enhanced by limiting node access to those objects that are needed on the node. ([#116254](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116254), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Auth and Testing]

- Enhanced the Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) with an updated version of the resource.k8s.io API group. The primary user-facing type remains the ResourceClaim, however significant changes have been made, resulting in the new version, v1alpha3, which is not...

Major features for stateful applications include automated updates to StatefulSets, enhanced updates for DaemonSets, a burst mode for faster StatefulSets scaling, and (alpha) support for local storage.

### SIG Network

[SIG Network][] is responsible for networking components, APIs, and plugins in Kubernetes.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Network enhanced the NetworkPolicy API to support pod egress traffic policies.

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- The NodeAffinity plugin implements the PreFilter extension, offering enhanced performance for Filter. ([#99213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99213), [@AliceZhang2016](https://github.com/AliceZhang2016)) [SIG Scheduling]