### API Change

#### New API types/versions:
- A new IngressClass resource has been added to enable better Ingress configuration. ([#88509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88509), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Network, Node and Testing]

* Fixes [#49418](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49418) where kube-controller-manager can panic on volume.CanSupport methods and enter a crash loop. ([#49420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49420), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

01BC          ; mapped                 ; 01BD          # 1.1  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE FIVE
01BD..01C3    ; valid                                  # 1.1  LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE FIVE..LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK
01C4..01C6    ; mapped                 ; 0064 017E     # 1.1  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ WITH CARON..LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARON

## Changelog since v1.6.7

### Other notable changes

* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Service session affinity timeout tests are no longer required for Kubernetes network plugin conformance due to variations in existing implementations. New conformance tests will be developed to better express conformance in future releases. ([#112806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112806), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw)) [SIG Architecture, Network and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added

  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- All `klog` flags except for `-v` and `-vmodule` are deprecated. Support for `-vmodule` is only guaranteed for the text log format. ([#105042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105042), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Change docker metrics to conform metrics guidelines and using histogram for better aggregation. ([#72323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72323), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
    * The following metrics are deprecated, and will be removed in a future release:

### Bug or Regression

- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]

- Service session affinity timeout tests are no longer required for Kubernetes network plugin conformance due to variations in existing implementations. New conformance tests will be developed to better express conformance in future releases. ([#112806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112806), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw)) [SIG Architecture, Network and Testing]