## Changelog since v1.8.1

### Other notable changes

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Allow standard flags in client-gen. ([#53999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53999), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Added --authorization-always-allow-paths to components doing delegated authorization to exclude certain HTTP paths like /healthz from authorization. ([#67543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67543), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Allow for configuration of CoreDNS replica count ([#85837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85837), [@pickledrick](https://github.com/pickledrick)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Allow to monitor client-go DNS resolver latencies via `rest_client_dns_resolution_duration_seconds` Prometheus metric. ([#115357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115357), [@mfojtik](https://github.com/mfojtik))

 - Fixes a regression in 1.17 that dropped cache-control headers on API requests ([#90468](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90468), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
 - Provides a fix to allow a cluster in a private Azure cloud to authenticate to ACR in the same cloud. ([#90425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90425), [@DavidParks8](https://github.com/DavidParks8)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* allow restricting subresource access ([#29988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29988), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* Add density (batch pods creation latency and resource) and resource performance tests to `test-e2e-node' ([#29764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29764), [@coufon](https://github.com/coufon))

    * ACTION REQUIRED: The deprecated Kubelet flag `--allow-privileged` has been removed. Remove any use of `--allow-privileged` from your kubelet scripts or manifests.

- Added to `MutableFeatureGate` the ability to override the default setting of feature gates, to allow default-enabling a feature on a component-by-component basis instead of for all affected components simultaneously. ([#122647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122647), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

### Other notable changes

* StatefulSet: Set hostname/subdomain fields on new Pods in addition to the deprecated annotations, to allow mitigation of Pod DNS issues upon upgrading to Kubernetes v1.7.x. ([#50942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50942), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))
* Azure: Allow VNet to be in a separate Resource Group. ([#49725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49725), [@sylr](https://github.com/sylr))

* AWS
  * Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul)
  * Allow cross-region image pulling with ECR
  * More reliable kube-up/kube-down
  * Enable ICMP Type 3 Code 4 for ELBs
  * ARP caching fix
  * Use /dev/xvdXX names
  * ELB:
    * ELB proxy protocol support 
	* mixed plaintext/encrypted ports support in ELBs
    * SSL support for ELB listeners
  * Allow VPC CIDR to be specified (experimental)