### Bug or Regression

- Fixed a bug where a high churn of events was causing master instability by reducing the maximum number of objects (events) attached to a single etcd lease. ([#100452](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100452), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)
 - base-images: Use debian-base:v2.1.0 (update to Debian Buster, includes CVE fixes)

  
  When adding links which point to resources within git repositories, like
  KEPs or supporting documentation, please reference a specific commit and avoid
  linking directly to the master branch. This ensures that links reference a
  specific point in time, rather than a document that may change over time.
  

- [v1.8.0-rc.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-rc1)
- [v1.8.0-beta.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-beta1)
- [v1.8.0-alpha.3](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-alpha3)
- [v1.8.0-alpha.2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v180-alpha2)

- Ensured that the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint is applied to the master with NoSchedule on GCE. ([#78183](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78183), [@cheftako](https://github.com/cheftako))

  // +optional
  optional AWSElasticBlockStoreVolumeSource awsElasticBlockStore = 2;

  // hostPath represents a directory on the host.
  // Provisioned by a developer or tester.
  // This is useful for single-node development and testing only!
  // On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster.

- Fixed a bug where executing a kubectl command with a jsonpath output expression that has a nested range would ignore expressions following the nested range. ([#88464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88464), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Deprecation of FlexVolume

FlexVolume is deprecated. Out-of-tree CSI driver is the recommended way to write volume drivers in Kubernetes.
See [this doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-storage/volume-plugin-faq.md#kubernetes-volume-plugin-faq-for-storage-vendors) for more information.
Maintainers of FlexVolume drivers should implement a CSI driver and move users of FlexVolume to CSI.

  - Make "kubeadm upgrade apply" add the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label on existing nodes that only have the "node-role.kubernetes.io/master" label during upgrade.
  - Please adapt your tooling built on top of kubeadm to use the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label.

- Kubeadm: removed the toleration for the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint from the CoreDNS deployment of `kubeadm`. With the 1.25 release of kubeadm the taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` is no longer applied to control plane nodes and the toleration for it can be removed with the release of 1.26. You can also perform the same toleration removal from your own addon manifests....