* In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9, and 1.9.4 are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first.

- Supported fine-grained supplemental groups policy (KEP-3619), which enabled
  fine-grained control for supplementary groups in the first container processes.
  This allows you to choose whether to include groups defined in the container image (/etc/groups)

#### Storage
- A node that uses a CSI raw block volume needs to be drained before kubelet can be upgraded to 1.17. ([#74026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74026), [@mkimuram](https://github.com/mkimuram))

#### Windows
- The Windows containers RunAsUsername feature is now beta.

- Introduce a new server run option 'shutdown-send-retry-after'. If true the HTTP Server will continue listening until all non longrunning request(s) in flight have been drained, during this window all incoming requests will be rejected with a status code `429` and a 'Retry-After' response header. ([#101257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101257), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Changed node staging path for CSI driver to use a PV agnostic path. Nodes must be drained before updating the kubelet with this change. ([#107065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107065), [@saikat-royc](https://github.com/saikat-royc))

- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.
   ([#122058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122058), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.

* ACTION REQUIRED: In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14+, 1.8.9+, and 1.9.4+ are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first. ([#61373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61373), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Other notable changes

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created
documentation for the current scalability thresholds, and defined a new set of
Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the system.
Here's the release [scalability validation report].

## Changelog since v1.9.6

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9, and 1.9.4 are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first. ([#61373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61373), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Other notable changes

## Changelog since v1.7.15

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9, and 1.9.4 are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first. ([#61373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61373), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Other notable changes