- The kube-apiserver will no longer serve APIs that should have been deleted in GA non-alpha levels.  Alpha levels will continue to serve the removed APIs so that CI doesn't immediately break. ([#96525](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

- The fallback behavior of the Downward API's `resourceFieldRef` field was updated to account for pod-level resources: if container-level limits were not set, pod-level limits were now used before falling back to node allocatable resources. ([#132605](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132605), [@toVersus](https://github.com/toVersus)) [SIG Node, Scheduling and Testing]

                },
                "/level1/level2/level3/level4/override5": {
                    "get": {
                        "tags": [
                            "level1a",
                            "level1b",
                            "level2a",
                            "level2b",
                            "level3a",
                            "level3b",
                            "level4a",

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].

[SIG Scalability]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-scalability

# v1.7.7

- Enabled in-place resizing of pod-level resources.  
  - Added `Resources` in `PodStatus` to capture resources set in the pod-level cgroup.  

- PersistentVolumeLabel admission plugin, responsible for labeling `PersistentVolumes` with topology labels, now does not overwrite existing labels on PVs that were dynamically provisioned. It trusts the  dynamic provisioning that it provided the correct labels to the `PersistentVolume`, saving one potentially expensive cloud API call. `PersistentVolumes` created manually by users are labelled by the admission plugin in the same...

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Client-go header logging (at verbosity levels >= 9) now masks `Authorization` header contents ([#95316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95316), [@sfowl](https://github.com/sfowl)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Changed the Pod API to support `hugepage resources` at `spec` level for pod-level resources. ([#130577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130577), [@KevinTMtz](https://github.com/KevinTMtz)) [SIG Apps, CLI, Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

  - cAdvisor json endpoints have been deprecated since 1.15. ([#78504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78504), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))