- Added new option to the InterPodAffinity scheduler plugin to ignore existing pods` preferred inter-pod affinities if the incoming pod has no preferred inter-pod affinities. This option can be used as an optimization for higher scheduling throughput (at the cost of an occasional pod being scheduled non-optimally/violating existing pods' preferred inter-pod affinities). To enable this scheduler option, set the InterPodAffinity scheduler plugin arg "ignor...

- Kubectl/drain: add disable-eviction option.Force drain to use delete, even if eviction is supported. This will bypass checking PodDisruptionBudgets, and should be used with caution. ([#85571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85571), [@michaelgugino](https://github.com/michaelgugino)) [SIG CLI]

* kubeadm now has a join timeout that can be controlled via the `discoveryTimeout` config option. This option is set to 5 minutes by default. ([#60983](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60983), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

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- [v1.17.0-alpha.1](#v1170-alpha1)
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  - [Changelog since v1.16.0](#changelog-since-v1160)
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- kubeadm now supports the `--image-repository` flag for customizing what registry to pull images from ([#71135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71135), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

*   Added extra_sans config option to kubeapi-load-balancer charm. This allows the user to specify extra SAN entries on the certificate generated for...

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- [v1.7.0-alpha.3](#v170-alpha3)
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## Changelog since v1.15.0-beta.1

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: The deprecated flag --conntrack-max has been removed from kube-proxy. Users of this flag should switch to --conntrack-min and --conntrack-max-per-core instead. ([#78399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78399), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz))

* Add override flags options to kubefed init ([#40917](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40917), [@irfanurrehman](https://github.com/irfanurrehman))
* Add option to expose federation apiserver on nodeport service ([#40516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40516), [@shashidharatd](https://github.com/shashidharatd))

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- [v1.10.6](#v1106)
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