* Ensure expected load balancer is selected for Azure ([#62450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62450), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fix error message regarding conversion of `v1.ListOptions` to `samplecontroller.k8s.io/v1alpha1`. ([#57243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57243), [@munnerz](https://github.com/munnerz))

KubeProxyConfiguration Before:

```
apiVersion: kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: KubeProxyConfiguration
**featureGates: "SupportIPVSProxyMode=true"**
```

KubeProxyConfiguration After:

```
apiVersion: kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: KubeProxyConfiguration
**featureGates:**
**  SupportIPVSProxyMode: true**

### API Change

- Change the APIVersion proto name of BoundObjectRef from aPIVersion to apiVersion. ([#97379](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97379), [@kebe7jun](https://github.com/kebe7jun)) [SIG Auth]
- Promote Immutable Secrets/ConfigMaps feature to Stable.

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a regression in 1.27.0 that resulted in "missing metadata in converted object" errors when modifying objects for multi-version custom resource definitions with a conversion strategy of `None`. ([#117305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117305), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Scheduler Policy API has a new recommended apiVersion `apiVersion: kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1` which is consistent with the scheduler API group `kubescheduler.config.k8s.io`. It holds the same API as the old apiVersion `apiVersion: v1`. ([#83578](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83578), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

* Change ImageGCManage to consume ImageFS stats from StatsProvider ([#53094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53094), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* Fixes an issue with `kubectl set` commands encountering conversion errors for ReplicaSet and DaemonSet objects ([#53158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53158), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))


# v1.8.0

    * Action required: The following clusterrole and clusterrolebinding should be applied:
    ```
         kind: List
         apiVersion: v1
         items:
         - apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
           kind: ClusterRole
           metadata:
             labels:
               kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

- Kube-apiserver adds two new alpha metrics `conversion_webhook_request_total` and `conversion_webhook_duration_seconds` that allow users to monitor requests to CRD conversion webhooks, split by result, and failure_type (In case of failure). ([#118292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118292), [@cchapla](https://github.com/cchapla)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- Fix scheduler crash when removing node before its pods ([#89908](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89908), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Fixes conversion error for HorizontalPodAutoscaler objects with invalid annotations ([#89965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89965), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Autoscaling]

- kube-scheduler dropped support for configuration files with apiVersion `componentconfig/v1alpha1`. Ensure kube-scheduler is configured using command-line flags or a configuration file with apiVersion `kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1` before upgrading to 1.13.
- kubectl