### 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

## 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))

  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))

### 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]

* 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:

- 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]

2) Alpha for CSI specification 0.3 integration to AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)

- We’re working to simplify the Windows node join experience with better scripts and kubeadm. Scripts and doc updates are still in the works, but some of the needed improvements are included in 1.15.  These include:

    * better error diagnostics in hack/local-up-cluster.sh output
* Add prometheus cluster monitoring addon to kube-up ([#62195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62195), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))