([#69099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69099), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

## Deprecations

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert` is deprecated and will be removed in v1.17.

* fixes an issue with multi-line annotations injected via downward API files getting scrambled ([#65992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Deprecations and Removals

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.

- Kube-apiserver: Fixes a 1.31 regression that stopped honoring build ID overrides with the --version flag ([#126670](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126670), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Revert "fix: handle socket file detection on Windows" ([#127100](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127100), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node]

  - node_cpu_usage_seconds --> node_cpu_usage_seconds_total
  - container_cpu_usage_seconds --> container_cpu_usage_seconds_total

- Fixed issue where `kubectl-convert` would fail when encountering resources that could not be converted to the specified api version. New behavior is to warn the user of the failed conversions and continue to convert the remaining resources. ([#117002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117002), [@gxwilkerson33](https://github.com/gxwilkerson33))

- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]

[kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz](https://dl.k8s.io/v1.6.8/kubernetes-node-windows-amd64.tar.gz) | `66b66655976647f50db3eda61849cbb26bcb06ad20a866328f24aef862758bb4`

## Changelog since v1.6.7

### Other notable changes

* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

invalid node names. ([#58502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58502), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Authentication information for OpenStack cloud provider can now be specified as environment variables. When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password...

  - Aggregated discovery requests can now timeout. Aggregated API servers must complete discovery calls within 5 seconds (other requests can take longer). Use the feature gate `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout=false` to temporarily revert behavior to the previous 30 second timeout if required (the temporary `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout` feature gate will be removed in v1.17). ([#82146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82146), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))...