- 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))

* Fix bug where EndpointSlice controller would attempt to modify shared objects. ([#85368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85368), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

* fix pdb validation bug on PodDisruptionBudgetSpec ([#48706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48706), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

  - node_cpu_usage_seconds --> node_cpu_usage_seconds_total
  - container_cpu_usage_seconds --> container_cpu_usage_seconds_total

* kubectl apply: retry applying a patch if a version conflict error is encountered ([#26557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26557), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))
* Revert "Wait for arc.getArchive() to complete before running tests" ([#27130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27130), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))

  - 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]

* kubeadm: Fix join preflight check false negative ([#49825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49825), [@erhudy](https://github.com/erhudy))
* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

* 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))

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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))