- DRA: removed support for the v1alpha4 kubelet gRPC API (added...

  when the number of succeeded Job Pods (`.status.succeeded`) reached the desired completions (`.spec.completions`). ([#126067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126067), [@tenzen-y](https://github.com/tenzen-y)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

- Support for Indexed Job: a Job that is considered completed when Pods associated to indexes from 0 to (.spec.completions-1) have succeeded. ([#98812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98812), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and CLI]

- Fixed bug which caused the status of Indexed Jobs to only be updated when there are newly completed indexes. The completed indexes are now updated if the .status.completedIndexes has values outside of the [0, .spec.completions> range ([#115462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115462), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre)) [SIG Apps]

- Fixed bug which caused the status of Indexed Jobs to only be updated when there are newly completed indexes. The completed indexes are now updated if the .status.completedIndexes has values outside of the [0, .spec.completions> range ([#115457](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115457), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre)) [SIG Apps]

- Adds a headless service on node-local-cache addon. ([#88412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88412), [@stafot](https://github.com/stafot)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]
- Allow cross-compilation of kubernetes on different platforms. ([#94403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94403), [@bnrjee](https://github.com/bnrjee)) [SIG Release]

* GCE: Fix issue deleting internal load balancers when the firewall resource may not exist. ([#53450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53450), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))
* Fix compilation of k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver ([#48036](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48036), [@hongchaodeng](https://github.com/hongchaodeng))


# v1.7.8

- The job controller removes running pods when the number of completions is achieved. ([#99963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99963), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

- ACTION_REQUIRED

### Cluster Federation

#### [alpha] Federated Jobs

Federated Jobs that are automatically deployed to multiple clusters
are now supported. Cluster selection and weighting determine how Job
parallelism and completions are spread across clusters. Federated Job
status reflects the aggregate status across all underlying cluster
jobs.

#### [alpha] Federated Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)