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 ## **Major Themes**
 
+- The kubernetes workloads API (the DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and 
+StatefulSet kinds) have been moved to the new apps/v1beta2 group version. This
+is the current version of the API, and the version we intend to promote to 
+GA in future releases. This version of the API introduces several deprecations 
+and behavioral changes, but its intention is to provide a stable, consistent 
+API surface for promotion. 
+
 ## **Action Required Before Upgrading**
 
 ## **Known Issues**
 
 ## **Deprecations**
 
+### Apps 
+ - The rollbackTo field of the Deployment kind is depreatcted in the 
+ apps/v1beta2 group version. 
+ - The templateGeneration field of the DaemonSet kinds is deprecated in the 
+ apps/v1beta2 group.
+ - The pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized has been removed.
+
+
 ## **Notable Features**
+
+### [Workload API (apps/v1beta2)](https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/353)
+
+Kubernetes 1.8 adds the apps/v1beta2 group version. This group version contains 
+the Kubernetes workload API which consists of the DaemonSet, Deployment, 
+ReplicaSet and StatefulSet kinds. It is the current version of the API, and we 
+intend to promote it to GA in upcoming releases 
+
+#### API Object Additions and Migrations
+
+- The current version DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet kinds 
+  are now in the apps/v1beta2 group version.
+- The apps/v1beta2 group version adds a Scale subresource for the StatefulSet 
+kind.
+- All kinds in the apps/v1beta2 group version add a corresponding conditions 
+  kind.
+
+#### Behavioral Changes
+
+ - For all kinds in the API group version, as it is incompatible with kubectl 
+ apply and strategic merge patch, spec.selector defaulting is disabled. Users
+ must set the spec.selector in their manifests, and the creation of an object 
+ with a spec.selector that does not match the labels in its spec.template is 
+ considered to be invalid.
+ - As none of the controllers in the workloads API handle selector mutation in 
+ a consistent way, selector mutation is disabled in for all kinds in the 
+ app/v1beta2 group version. This restriction may be lifted in the future, but 
+ it is likely that that selectors will remain immutable after GA promotion. 
+ Users that have any code that depends on mutable selectors may continue to use 
+ the apps/v1beta1 API for this release, but they should begin migration to code 
+ that does depend on mutable selectors.
+
+ #### Defaults
+
+ - The default spec.updateStrategy for the StatefulSet and DaemonSet kinds is 
+ RollingUpdate for the apps/v1beta2 group version. Users may specifically set 
+ the OnDelete strategy, and no strategy auto-conversion will be applied to 
+ replace defaulted values.
+ - As mentioned in [Behavioral Changes](#behavioral-changes), selector 
+ defaulting is disabled.
+ - The default spec.revisionHistoryLimit for all applicable kinds in the 
+ apps/v1beta2 group version has set to 10.
+
+#### CLI Changes
+
+- The kubectl rollout and rollback implementation is complete for StatefulSet.
+- The kubectl scale command will uses the Scale subresource for kinds in the 
+  apps/v1beta2 group.
+- kubectl delete will no longer scale down workload API objects prior to 
+  deletion. Users who depend on ordered termination for the Pods of their 
+  StatefulSet’s must use kubectl scale to scale down the StatefulSet prior to 
+  deletion.
+
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