## Changelog since v1.6.6

### Other notable changes

* kubeadm: Expose only the cluster-info ConfigMap in the kube-public ns ([#48050](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48050), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
* Expose Metrics Server metrics via /metric endpoint. ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

* Stackdriver cluster logging now deploys a new component to export Kubernetes events. ([#46700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46700), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

### SIG Instrumentation

* Added prometheus cluster monitoring addon to kube-up. ([#62195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62195), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
* Kubelet now exposes a new endpoint, `/metrics/probes`, which exposes a Prometheus metric containing the liveness and/or readiness probe results for a container. ([#61369](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61369), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))

* Detach and clear bad disk URI ([#58345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58345), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))
* Expose Metrics Server metrics via /metric endpoint. ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95725), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- Expose `/debug/flags/v` to allow dynamically setting log level for kube-proxy. ([#98306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98306), [@borgerli](https://github.com/borgerli)) [SIG Network]

- Added the ability to specify whether to use an RFC7396 JSON Merge Patch, an RFC6902 JSON Patch, or a Strategic Merge Patch to perform an override of the resources created by `kubectl run` and `kubectl expose`. ([#105140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105140), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley))

- CRI: exposed commit memory bytes in container stats specific to Windows ([#119238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119238), [@kiashok](https://github.com/kiashok))
- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  

## Deprecations and Removals

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.
  - The `--pod`/`-p` flag for `kubectl exec`, deprecated since 1.12, has been removed.