* Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.15.0; changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.15.0 ([#78866](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78866), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
* Revert the CoreDNS version to 1.3.1 ([#78691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78691), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))

- Ensure `InstanceShutdownByProviderID` return false for creating Azure VMs. ([#104382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104382), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Evicted and other terminated Pods will no longer revert to the `Running` phase. ([#105462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105462), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

- Revert addition of Add `PersistentVolumeClaimDeletePoilcy` to `StatefulSet`API. ([#103747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103747), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]

- Promoted API groups `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` and ...

- Fix a bug on GCE that /etc/crictl.yaml is not generated when crictl is preloaded. ([#66877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66877), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
- Revert #63905: Setup dns servers and search domains for Windows Pods. DNS for Windows containers will be set by CNI plugins. ([#66587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66587), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* fixes an issue with multi-line annotations injected via downward API files getting scrambled ([#65992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  - Aggregated discovery requests can now timeout. Aggregated API servers must complete discovery calls within 5 seconds (other requests can take longer). Use the feature gate `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout=false` to temporarily revert behavior to the previous 30 second timeout if required (the temporary `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout` feature gate will be removed in v1.17). ([#82146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82146), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))...

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## Changelog since v1.6.7

### Other notable changes

* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

  - Fix a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117268), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]