- Kube-controller-manager: increased the global level for broadcaster's logging to 3 so that users can ignore event messages by lowering the logging level. It reduces information noise. ([#122293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122293), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

    Node Allocatable. This will result in a reduction of schedulable capacity in
    clusters post upgrade where kubelet hard eviction has been turned on for
    memory. To opt-out set `--experimental-allocatable-ignore-eviction=true`.
  * More details on these feature here:
    https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/reserve-compute-resources/
* Drop the support for docker 1.9.x. Docker versions 1.10.3, 1.11.2, 1.12.6

- In CRD webhook conversion, Kubernetes will now ignore changes to metadata other than for labels and annotations. ([#77743](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77743), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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## Changelog since v1.7.7

### Other notable changes

* Ignore pods marked for deletion that exceed their grace period in ResourceQuota ([#46542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46542), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- Fixes regression in 1.26.5 causing running pods with devices to be terminated if kubelet is restarted ([#119706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119706), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120019), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]

        * First upgrade the master to Kubernetes v1.3.
            * This will start the new attach/detach controller.
            * The new controller will initially ignore volumes for all nodes since they lack the "volumes.kubernetes.io/controller-managed-attach-detach" annotation.
        * Then upgrade nodes to Kubernetes v1.3.

- `kubeadm`: turned on feature gate `MergeCLIArgumentsWithConfig` to merge the config from flag and config file, otherwise, if the flag `--ignore-preflight-errors` is set from the CLI, then the value from config file will be ignored. ([#119946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119946), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))