- Intree volume plugin quobyte support is been completely removed from Kubernetes. ([#111619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111619), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Scalability and Storage]

- Added a --topology-manager-policy-options flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes...

      - [Networking](#networking-1)
      - [Node controller](#node-controller)
      - [Node Components](#node-components-1)
      - [Scheduling](#scheduling-2)
      - [Security](#security-1)
      - [Scalability](#scalability)
  - [**External Dependency Version Information**](#external-dependency-version-information)
    - [Previous Releases Included in v1.7.0](#previous-releases-included-in-v170)
- [v1.7.0-rc.1](#v170-rc1)

- For volumes that allow attaches across multiple nodes, attach and detach operations across different nodes are now executed in parallel. ([#89240](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89240), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))...

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

  key in kubelet configuration. ([#112957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112957), [@mxpv](https://github.com/mxpv)) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Scalability and Testing]