## Changelog since v1.11.0

### Action Required

now always set to "systemd" unless the user is explicit about it. This requires existing machine setups to configure the container runtime to use the "systemd" driver. Documentation on this topic can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/container-runtimes/. When upgrading existing clusters / nodes using "kubeadm upgrade" the old cgroupDriver value is preserved, but in 1.22 this change will also apply to "upgrade". For more information on migrating to the "systemd" driver...

- 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))

  // +optional
  optional string appProtocol = 4;
}

// EndpointSubset is a group of addresses with a common set of ports. The
// expanded set of endpoints is the Cartesian product of Addresses x Ports.
// For example, given:
//
// 	{
// 	  Addresses: [{"ip": "10.10.1.1"}, {"ip": "10.10.2.2"}],
// 	  Ports:     [{"name": "a", "port": 8675}, {"name": "b", "port": 309}]
// 	}
//

- The `gcp` and `azure` auth plugins have been removed from client-go and kubectl. See https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin and https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke ([#110013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110013), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

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).

- The `gcp` and `azure` auth plugins have been removed from `client-go` and `kubectl`. See [kubelogin](https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin) and [Kubectl Auth Changes in GKE](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke) for details about the cloud-specific replacements. ([#112341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112341), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

### API Change

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## **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