- kubeadm: UnifiedControlPlaneImage is replaced by UseHyperKubeImage boolean value. ([#70793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70793), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))
- For kube-up and derived configurations, CoreDNS will honor master taints, for consistency with kube-dns behavior. ([#70868](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70868), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

- X.509 client certificate authentication to the kube-apiserver now produces credential IDs (derived from the certificate's signature) , for use in audit logging. ([#125634](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125634), [@ahmedtd](https://github.com/ahmedtd)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

### Feature

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_seat_fair_frac`: Fair fraction of server's concurrency to allocate to each priority level that can use it
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_current_limit_seats`: current derived number of execution seats available to each priority level

- Revised the Pod API with Alpha support for volumes derived from OCI artifacts. This feature is behind the `ImageVolume` feature gate. ([#125660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125660), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Node]

- The admin RBAC role now aggregates edit and view.  The edit RBAC role now aggregates view.  ([#66684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66684), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
- UserInfo derived from service account tokens created from the TokenRequest API now include the pod name and UID in the Extra field. ([#61858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61858), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

  - NetworkPolicy resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.16. Migrate use to the `networking.k8s.io/v1` API, available since v1.8. Existing persisted data...

- API
  - Ingress resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.19. Migrate use to the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` API, available since v1.14. Existing persisted data can be retrieved via the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` API.

  - Ingress resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.20. Migrate use to the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` API, available since v1.14. Existing persisted data can be retrieved via the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` API.

- Profiling can now be served on a unix-domain socket by using the `--profiling-path` option (when profiling is enabled) for security purposes. ([#114191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114191), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery]

  * Special notice for kube-proxy in 1.7+ (including 1.7.0):
    * Healthz server (/healthz) will be served on 0.0.0.0:10256 by default.
    * Metrics server (/metrics and /proxyMode) will be served on 127.0.0.1:10249 by default.
    * Metrics server will continue serving /healthz.


# v1.7.2