- Kubectl now handles newlines for `command`, `args`, `env`, and `annotations` in `kubectl describe` wrapping. ([#66841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66841), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Commands like `kubectl apply` now return errors if schema-invalid annotations are specified, rather than silently dropping the entire annotations section. ([#83552](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83552), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Fluentd will trim lines exceeding 100KB instead of dropping them. ([#52289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52289), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- Fixed a race condition in `kube-proxy` when using LocalModeNodeCIDR, to avoid dropping Services traffic if the object node is recreated when `kube-proxy` is starting. ([#118499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118499), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Implement graceful shutdown of the kube-apiserver by waiting for open connections to finish before exiting. Moreover, the audit backend will stop dropping events on shutdown. ([#53695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53695), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

- Fix removing pods from podTopologyHints mapping ([#101892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101892), [@aheng-ch](https://github.com/aheng-ch)) [SIG Node]

* Added a new `kubeadm upgrade node config` command. ([#64624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64624), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))
* kubeadm now makes the CoreDNS container more secure by dropping (root) capabilities and improves the integrity of the container by running the whole container in read-only.  ([#64473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64473), [@nberlee](https://github.com/nberlee))

- Improved memory usage of `kube-scheduler` by dropping the `.metadata.managedFields` field that `kube-scheduler` doesn't require. ([#119556](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119556), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei))

## Changelog since v1.7.5

### Other notable changes

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Fluentd will trim lines exceeding 100KB instead of dropping them. ([#52289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52289), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

#### Other Notable Changes
* Federated Ingress over GCE no longer requires separate firewall rules to be created for each cluster to circumvent flapping firewall health checks. ([#41942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41942), [@csbell](https://github.com/csbell))