- [`KT-58654`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58654) Compiler error from kotlin.collections.Map : "Invalid phi record", while compiling for kotlin native

### Native. C Export

- [`KT-56182`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56182) [K2/N] C export doesn't work for non-root packages with K2

### Native. C and ObjC Import

- E2e framework: added `--report-complete-ginkgo` and `--report-complete-junit` parameters. They work like `ginkgo --json-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.json --junit-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.xml`. ([#115678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115678), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Testing]

- ServiceOwnsFrontendIP shouldn't report error when the public IP doesn't match ([#102516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102516), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

Here's the release [scalability validation report].

[SIG Scalability]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-scalability
[scalability validation report]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.8/scalability_validation_report.md

### SIG Scheduling

([#69099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69099), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

## Deprecations

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert` is deprecated and will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command is deprecated and will be removed in v1.18. ([#73787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73787), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- kubelet

* Fix kube-apiserver crash when patching TPR data ([#44612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44612), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))
* vSphere cloud provider: Report same Node IP as both internal and external. ([#45201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45201), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))

## Deprecations and Removals

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.
  - The `--pod`/`-p` flag for `kubectl exec`, deprecated since 1.12, has been removed.

During server startup, prior to the server reporting healthy (via `/healthz`), not all API groups may be reported.
Wait for the server to report healthy (via `/healthz`) before depending on the information provided by the discovery APIs.

- github.com/google/cel-spec: [v0.6.0](https://github.com/google/cel-spec/tree/v0.6.0)
- github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report: [v0.9.1](https://github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report/tree/v0.9.1)
- github.com/nxadm/tail: [v1.4.4](https://github.com/nxadm/tail/tree/v1.4.4)
- github.com/onsi/ginkgo: [v1.14.0](https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/tree/v1.14.0)

- Terminating a restartPolicy=Never pod no longer has a chance to report the pod succeeded when it actually failed. ([#88440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88440), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)