- [`KT-60410`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60410) Add minimum supported KGP version in intellij.git infrastructure
- [`KT-59794`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59794) Bump used KGP in multiplatform intellij.git tests after release 1.9.0

preemptively tolerate the new taint. For clusters that are being upgraded to 1.24 with `kubeadm upgrade apply`, the command will add the new taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule` to existing control plane nodes. Please adapt your infrastructure to these changes. In 1.25 the old taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule` will be removed. ([#107533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107533), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

## Changes by Kind...

pipeline.

[SIG Instrumentation]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-instrumentation

### SIG Multi-cluster (formerly known as SIG Federation)

[SIG Multi-cluster][] is responsible for infrastructure that supports
the efficient and reliable management of multiple Kubernetes clusters,
and applications that run in and across multiple clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Multicluster focussed on expanding the set of

- Specifying the KUBE_TEST_REPO environment variable when e2e tests are executed will instruct the test infrastructure to load that image from a location within the specified repo, using a predefined pattern. ([#93510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93510), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Testing]

### SIG-cloud-provider

This is the first Kubernetes release for this SIG! In v1.12, SIG Cloud Provider focused on building the processes and infrastructure to better support existing and new cloud providers. Some of these initiatives (many of which are still in progress) are:

### CSI Migration Beta

The Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. CSI migration was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.14.

## Known Issues
- volumeDevices mapping ignored when container is privileged

    * [StorageOS](http://www.storageos.com) can be used as a storage provider for Kubernetes.  With StorageOS, capacity from local or attached storage is pooled across the cluster, providing converged infrastructure for cloud-native applications.
* CRI has been moved to package `pkg/kubelet/apis/cri/v1alpha1/runtime`. ([#47113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47113), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### go1.15.5

go1.15.5 has been integrated into the Kubernetes project as of this release, [including other infrastructure related updates on this effort](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95776).

### CSI Volume Snapshot graduates to General Availability