- [alpha] Alpha level support for DaemonSets in federation. ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/federation/daemonsets/)) ([kubernetes/features#101](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/101))

  - Expanded support for federated hybrid-cloud resources including ReplicaSets, Secrets, Namespaces and Events.
- **Security**
  - Increased pod-level security granularity (eg: Container Image Policies, AppArmor and `sysctl` support)
  - Increased cluster-level security granularity (eg: Access Review API)

## Features

        // Verify parent directories were created
        SmbFile level1 = new SmbFile(baseUrl + "shared/level1_" + timestamp + "/", checkContext);
        SmbFile level2 = new SmbFile(baseUrl + "shared/level1_" + timestamp + "/level2/", checkContext);

        assertTrue(level1.exists(), "Level1 directory should exist");
        assertTrue(level2.exists(), "Level2 directory should exist");
    }

    @Test

    - [Deprecation of FlexVolume](#deprecation-of-flexvolume)
    - [Deprecation of klog specific flags](#deprecation-of-klog-specific-flags)
    - [Software Supply Chain SLSA Level 1 Compliance in the Kubernetes Release Process](#software-supply-chain-slsa-level-1-compliance-in-the-kubernetes-release-process)
    - [IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack Networking graduates to GA](#ipv4ipv6-dual-stack-networking-graduates-to-ga)

-->

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  | Improvements:
  |
  | o add specification element to a field, this would be more a technical description of
  |   what is allowed in the field.
  |
  | o validators: there could be several levels of validation. Simple type validation could
  |   be done with a regex, but we need inter-field validation and rules which could be
  |   dealt with by something like drools.
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        String template = "${level1.level2.value}";
        Map<String, Object> paramMap = new HashMap<>();
        Map<String, Object> level2 = new HashMap<>();
        level2.put("value", "nested");
        Map<String, Object> level1 = new HashMap<>();
        level1.put("level2", level2);
        paramMap.put("level1", level1);

        Object result = scriptEngine.evaluate(template, paramMap);

# v1.7.7

scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created
documentation for the current scalability thresholds, and defined a new set of
Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the system.
Here's the release [scalability validation report].

[SIG Scalability]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-scalability

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Client-go header logging (at verbosity levels >= 9) now masks `Authorization` header contents ([#95316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95316), [@sfowl](https://github.com/sfowl)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Change `pod_preemption_victims` metric from Gauge to Histogram. ([#83603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83603), [@Tabrizian](https://github.com/Tabrizian))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:
  `kubelet_container_log_filesystem_used_bytes`