For the 1.8 release, SIG API Machinery focused on stability and on ecosystem enablement. Features include the ability to break large LIST calls into smaller chunks, improved support for API server customization with either custom API servers or Custom Resource Definitions, and client side event spam filtering.

* skip nodes that have a primary NIC in a 'Failed' provisioningState ([#65412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65412), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))
* A smaller fix for the apiserver panic. ([#67552](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67552), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

- Fixed a bug in kubelet that will saturate CPU utilization after containerd got restarted. ([#97174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97174), [@hanlins](https://github.com/hanlins)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed a bug that causes smaller number of conntrack-max being used under CPU static policy. (#99225, @xh4n3) ([#99613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99613), [@xh4n3](https://github.com/xh4n3)) [SIG Network]

hancements/issues/554) feature was also moved to beta. This enables a volume plugin to specify the maximum number of a given volume type per node as a function of the node characteristics (for example, a larger limit for larger nodes, a smaller limit for smaller nodes).

SIG Storage also worked on a number of [Container Storage Interface (CSI) features](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/178) this quarter in anticipation of moving support for CSI from beta to GA in the...

- Dockershim security: pod sandbox now always run with `no-new-privileges` and `runtime/default` seccomp profile
  dockershim seccomp: custom profiles can now have smaller seccomp profiles when set at pod level ([#90948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90948), [@pjbgf](https://github.com/pjbgf)) [SIG Node]

### SIG Network

For 1.13, the areas of focus were in IPv6, DNS improvements and some smaller items:
CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests

  leave unused rules in iptables for a while (up to `--iptables-sync-period`)
  before deleting them. This improves performance by not requiring it to
  check for stale rules on every sync. (In smaller clusters, it will still
  remove unused rules immediately once they are no longer used.)

  (The threshold for "large" used here is currently "1000 endpoints" but

- Dockershim security: pod sandbox now always run with `no-new-privileges` and `runtime/default` seccomp profile
  dockershim seccomp: custom profiles can now have smaller seccomp profiles when set at pod level ([#90948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90948), [@pjbgf](https://github.com/pjbgf)) [SIG Node]

- Refactored `test/e2e/framework` so that the core framework is smaller. Optional functionality like resource monitoring, log size monitoring, metrics gathering and debug information dumping must be imported by specific e2e test suites. Init packages are provided which can be imported to re-enable the functionality that...

* Fixes validation of VolumeAttachment API objects created with inline volume sources. ([#80945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80945), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))
* Fix kubelet errors in AArch64 with huge page sizes smaller than 1MiB ([#78495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78495), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))