*   Refactor kube-scheduler configuration ([#52428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52428))

- Kubeadm: Switched kubeadm to start using the CRI client library instead of shelling out of the `crictl` binary

* The new flag `--apiserver-advertise-dns-address` is used in the node's kubelet.confg to point to the API server, allowing users to define a DNS entry instead of an IP address. ([#59288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59288), [@stevesloka](https://github.com/stevesloka))

- Reverted the `QueueingHint` implementation for `NodeUnschedulable` due to potential scenarios where events that make Pods schedulable could be missed. ([#122288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122288), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- The PersistentVolume controller no longer automatically assigns a default `StorageClass` to Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) with an empty `storageClassName`.

- CRI: Added a field to support CPU affinity on Windows. ([#124285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124285), [@kiashok](https://github.com/kiashok)) [SIG Node and Windows]

    * - Stop mounting the host certificates into fluentd's prometheus-to-sd container
* Fix a bug where pod address is not removed from endpoints object while pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

* Volume expansion is now considered Beta. ([#64288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64288), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Added counter metric "apiserver_request_self" to count API server self-requests with labels for verb, resource, and subresource. ([#94288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94288), [@LogicalShark](https://github.com/LogicalShark)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Instrumentation and Scheduling]

## Changelog since v1.7.5

### Other notable changes

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Fluentd will trim lines exceeding 100KB instead of dropping them. ([#52289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52289), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Cluster Autoscaler 0.6.2 ([#52359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52359), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))