* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Fixed an issue with informers missing an `Added` event if a recently deleted object was immediately recreated at the same time the informer dropped a watch and relisted. ([#83911](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83911), [@matte21](https://github.com/matte21))

  - Base pricing of custom instances on their instance family type
  - Add pricing information for missing machine types
  - Add pricing information for different GPU types
  - Ignore the new `topology.gke.io/zone` label when comparing groups
  - Add missing stable labels to template nodes
  
  ### HuaweiCloud
  - Add auto scaling group support
  - Implement node group by AS

- Fixed missing flags in `-controller-manager --help`. ([#71298](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71298), [@stewart-yu](https://github.com/stewart-yu))
- Fixed missing flags in `kube-apiserver --help`. ([#70204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70204), [@imjching](https://github.com/imjching))

* In GCE, add measures to prevent corruption of known_tokens.csv. ([#49897](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49897), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))
* Fixed a bug in the API server watch cache, which could cause a missing watch event immediately after cache initialization. ([#49992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))



# v1.6.8

  - Base pricing of custom instances on their instance family type
  - Add pricing information for missing machine types
  - Add pricing information for different GPU types
  - Ignore the new `topology.gke.io/zone` label when comparing groups
  - Add missing stable labels to template nodes
  
  ### HuaweiCloud
  - Add auto scaling group support
  - Implement node group by AS

</p>

<pre>
s[0] == 2
s[1] == 3
s[2] == 4
</pre>

<p>
For convenience, any of the indices may be omitted. A missing <code>low</code>
index defaults to zero; a missing <code>high</code> index defaults to the length of the
sliced operand:
</p>

<pre>
a[2:]  // same as a[2 : len(a)]
a[:3]  // same as a[0 : 3]
a[:]   // same as a[0 : len(a)]

* Fixes an error with stuck informers when an etcd watch receives update or delete events with missing data ([#76675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76675), [@ryanmcnamara](https://github.com/ryanmcnamara))

### Bug or Regression

- Bump system-validators to v1.10.2: remove version-specific cgroup kernel config checks to avoid false failures on cgroup v2 systems when v1-only configs are missing. ([#134087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134087), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Fix Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) issue where stale RemoteEndpoints remained

   ([#122614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))
- kubeadm: fixed a bug where "kubeadm upgrade plan -o yaml|json" included unneeded output and was missing component config information.
   ([#123492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123492), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix nil pointer panic in BuildOpenAPIV2 and BuildOpenAPIV3 utilities, used by kube-apiserver's openAPI controller, when a CRD is missing version the requested version. ([#128940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128940), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]