### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

      - [Multi-platform](#multi-platform)
      - [Cloud Providers](#cloud-providers)
    - [Network](#network)
      - [network-policy](#network-policy)
      - [kube-proxy ipvs mode](#kube-proxy-ipvs-mode)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
      - [kube-apiserver](#kube-apiserver)
      - [Dynamic Admission Control](#dynamic-admission-control)

## Changelog since v1.7.0-alpha.4

### Action Required

* kube-apiserver: a new authorization mode (`--authorization-mode=Node`) authorizes nodes to access secrets, configmaps, persistent volume claims and persistent volumes related to their pods. ([#46076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- `kube-proxy` now has a new nftables-based mode, available by running
  
      `kube-proxy --feature-gates NFTablesProxyMode=true --proxy-mode nftables`
  
  This is currently an alpha-level feature and while it probably will not
  eat your data, it may nibble at it a bit. (It passes e2e testing but has

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where `kubeadm join` for control plane nodes would download certificates and keys from the cluster, but would not write publicly readable certificates and public keys with mode `0644` and instead use mode `0600`. ([#103313](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103313), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- The nftables mode of kube-proxy is now GA. (The iptables mode remains the
  default; you can select the nftables mode by passing `--proxy-mode nftables`
  or using a config file with `mode: nftables`. See the kube-proxy documentation

*   Azure Load Balancer Auto Mode: Services can be annotated to allow auto selection of available load balancers and to provide specific availability sets that host the load balancers (for example, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode=auto|as1,as2...`)

### **CLI**

#### **Kubectl**

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until

- When using IPV6-only, be sure to use `proxy-mode=iptables` as `proxy-mode=ipvs` is known to not work. ([#68437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/68437))

## Deprecations

- kube-apiserver

  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92493), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._