### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

      - [Multi-platform](#multi-platform)
      - [Cloud Providers](#cloud-providers)
    - [Network](#network)
      - [network-policy](#network-policy)
      - [kube-proxy ipvs mode](#kube-proxy-ipvs-mode)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
      - [kube-apiserver](#kube-apiserver)
      - [Dynamic Admission Control](#dynamic-admission-control)

## Changelog since v1.7.0-alpha.4

### Action Required

* kube-apiserver: a new authorization mode (`--authorization-mode=Node`) authorizes nodes to access secrets, configmaps, persistent volume claims and persistent volumes related to their pods. ([#46076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The nftables mode of kube-proxy is now GA. (The iptables mode remains the
  default; you can select the nftables mode by passing `--proxy-mode nftables`
  or using a config file with `mode: nftables`. See the kube-proxy documentation

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where `kubeadm join` for control plane nodes would download certificates and keys from the cluster, but would not write publicly readable certificates and public keys with mode `0644` and instead use mode `0600`. ([#103313](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103313), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- `kube-proxy` now has a new nftables-based mode, available by running
  
      `kube-proxy --feature-gates NFTablesProxyMode=true --proxy-mode nftables`
  
  This is currently an alpha-level feature and while it probably will not
  eat your data, it may nibble at it a bit. (It passes e2e testing but has

*   Azure Load Balancer Auto Mode: Services can be annotated to allow auto selection of available load balancers and to provide specific availability sets that host the load balancers (for example, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode=auto|as1,as2...`)

### **CLI**

#### **Kubectl**

- When using IPV6-only, be sure to use `proxy-mode=iptables` as `proxy-mode=ipvs` is known to not work. ([#68437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/68437))

## Deprecations

- kube-apiserver

* iSCSI sessions managed by kubernetes will now explicitly set startup.mode to 'manual' to  prevent automatic login after node failure recovery. This is the default open-iscsi mode, so this change will only impact users who have changed their startup.mode to be 'automatic' in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf. ([#57475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57475), [@stmcginnis](https://github.com/stmcginnis))

- Fix EndpointSlice describe panic when an Endpoint doesn't have zone ([#101025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101025), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG CLI]
- Fix display of Job completion mode on kubectl describe ([#101198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101198), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG CLI]