## Before Upgrading

Consider the following changes, limitations, and guidelines before you upgrade:

### **API Machinery**

- Featuregate AllowInsecureBackendProxy graduates to GA and unconditionally enabled. ([#99658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99658), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
- Increase timeout for pod lifecycle test to reach pod status=ready ([#96691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96691), [@hh](https://github.com/hh))

`important` is a category. ([#59561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59561), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

* Fixed an issue making it possible to create a situation in which two webhooks make it impossible to delete each other. ValidatingWebhooks and MutatingWebhooks will not be called on admission requests for ValidatingWebhookConfiguration and MutatingWebhookConfiguration objects in the admissionregistration.k8s.io group ([#59840](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

- Number of errors reported to the metric `storage_operation_duration_seconds_count` for emptyDir decreased significantly because previously one error was reported for each projected volume created. ([#117022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117022), [@mpatlasov](https://github.com/mpatlasov)) [SIG Storage]

  When the scheduling queue receives a cluster event, before moving each Pod from unschedulable pod pool to activeQ/backoffQ, it will call QueueingHintFn of plugins that rejected each Pod in the previous scheduling cycle.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scheduling extended the concept of cluster sharing by introducing
pod priority and pod preemption. These features allow mixing various types of workloads in a single cluster, and help reach
higher levels of resource utilization and availability.
These features are in alpha. SIG Scheduling also improved the internal APIs for scheduling and made them easier for other components and external schedulers to use.

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2

Kubernetes will no longer ship an instance of the Cloud Controller Manager binary. Each Cloud Provider is expected to ship their own instance of this binary. Details for a Cloud Provider to create an instance of such a binary can be found [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/staging/src/k8s.io/cloud-provider/sample). Anyone with questions on building a Cloud Controller Manager should reach out to SIG Cloud Provider. Questions about the Cloud Controller Manager on a Managed...

- Kube-proxy health check ports used to listen to `:<port>` for each of the services. This is not needed and opens ports in addresses the cluster user may not have intended. The PR limits listening to all node address which are controlled by `--nodeport-addresses` flag. if no addresses are provided then we default to existing behavior by listening to `:<port>` for each service ([#104742](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104742), [@khenidak](https://github.com/khenidak))...

- Number of errors reported to the metric `storage_operation_duration_seconds_count` for emptyDir decreased significantly because previously one error was reported for each projected volume created. ([#117022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117022), [@mpatlasov](https://github.com/mpatlasov)) [SIG Storage]