* Affinity in annotations alpha feature is no longer supported in 1.8. Anyone upgrading from 1.7 with AffinityInAnnotation feature enabled must ensure pods (specifically with pod anti-affinity PreferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution) with empty TopologyKey fields must be removed before upgrading to 1.8. ([#49976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49976), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))

- Kubeadm: support experimental JSON/YAML output for `kubeadm upgrade plan` with the `--output` flag. ([#108447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108447), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Kubeadm: the preferred pod anti-affinity for CoreDNS is now enabled by default. ([#110593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110593), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))