* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
* Expose Metrics Server metrics via /metric endpoint. ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

## Changelog since v1.6.6

### Other notable changes

* kubeadm: Expose only the cluster-info ConfigMap in the kube-public ns ([#48050](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48050), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

  // +optional
  optional string name = 1;

  // Number of port to expose on the host.
  // If specified, this must be a valid port number, 0 < x < 65536.
  // If HostNetwork is specified, this must match ContainerPort.
  // Most containers do not need this.
  // +optional
  optional int32 hostPort = 2;

  // Number of port to expose on the pod's IP address.
  // This must be a valid port number, 0 < x < 65536.

- Added support kubelet plugin watcher in device manager, as part of the new plugin system. ([#58755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58755), [@vikaschoudhary16](https://github.com/vikaschoudhary16))
- Expose docker registry config for addons used in Juju deployments ([#66092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66092), [@kwmonroe](https://github.com/kwmonroe))

- Add latency and request count metrics for scheduler framework. ([#83569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83569), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))
- Expose SharedInformerFactory in the framework handle ([#83663](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83663), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

- Expose `/debug/flags/v` to allow dynamically setting log level for kube-proxy. ([#98306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98306), [@borgerli](https://github.com/borgerli)) [SIG Network]

- CRI: exposed commit memory bytes in container stats specific to Windows ([#119238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119238), [@kiashok](https://github.com/kiashok))
- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  

Kubeadm: Expose the `kubeadm join` workflow as phases

* Detach and clear bad disk URI ([#58345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58345), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))
* Expose Metrics Server metrics via /metric endpoint. ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

- [`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