- kube-apiserver

  - the `--basic-auth-file` flag and authentication mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. It is not recommended for production environments. ([#81152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81152), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

  purposes, you can use older kernels, as far back as 5.4, if you set the
  `nftables.skipKernelVersionCheck` option in the kube-proxy config, but this is not
  recommended in production since it may cause problems with other nftables
  users on the system.) ([#124152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124152), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

CSI was first introduction as alpha in Kubernetes v1.9 and moved to beta in Kubernetes v1.10.

You can find a list of sample and production drivers in the [CSI Documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#csi).

---
- job:
    name: elastic+elasticsearch+%BRANCH%+branch-protection
    display-name: "elastic / elasticsearch # %BRANCH% - branch protection"
    description: Elasticsearch %BRANCH% branch protection.
    node: master
    triggers:
      - timed: "H 7 * * *"
    scm: []
    parameters: []
    builders:
      - shell: |
          #!/bin/bash
          set +x

## **Major Themes**

Kubernetes 1.7 is a milestone release that adds security, stateful application, and extensibility features motivated by widespread production use of Kubernetes.

[SIG Cluster Lifecycle]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-cluster-lifecycle

### SIG Instrumentation

[SIG Instrumentation][] is responsible for metrics production and
collection.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Instrumentation focused on stabilizing the APIs
and components that are required to support the new version of the Horizontal Pod

* ACTION REQUIRED: Removes defaulting of CSI file system type to ext4. All the production drivers listed under https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html were inspected and should not be impacted after this change. If you are using a driver not in that list, please test the drivers on an updated test cluster first. ([#65499]...

    *   New loss reduction types:
    *   `AUTO`: Indicates that the reduction option will be determined by the
        usage context. For almost all cases this defaults to
        `SUM_OVER_BATCH_SIZE`. When used with `tf.distribute.Strategy`, outside
        of built-in training loops such as `tf.keras` `compile` and `fit`, we
        expect reduction value to be `SUM` or `NONE`. Using `AUTO` in that case

## Known Issues

### Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption

Data corruption issue was found in etcd v3.5.0 release that was shipped with 1.22 Kubernetes release. Please read up-to-date [production recommendations for etcd](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/main/CHANGELOG).

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

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