contact_links:
  - name: Support Request
    url: https://discuss.kubernetes.io

- Updates that remove remaining `metadata.finalizers` from  an object that is pending deletion (non-nil metadata.deletionTimestamp) and has no graceful deletion pending (nil or 0 metadata.deletionGracePeriodSeconds) now results in immediate deletion of the object. ([#77952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77952), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* AWS: Change default networking for kube-up to kubenet ([#32239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32239), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Make sure finalizers prevent deletion on storage that supports graceful deletion ([#32351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32351), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Enabled concurrent log rotation in kubelet. You can now configure the maximum number of concurrent rotations with the `containerLogMaxWorkers` setting, and adjust the monitoring interval with `containerLogMonitorInterval`. ([#114301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114301),...

    *  - Created new GCE_SSH_KEY allowing specification of SSH keys for gce, gke, and kubemark.
    *  - AWS_SSH_KEY, previously assumed to be an absolute path can now be either relative or absolute
    *  - LOCAL_SSH_KEY (for local and vsphere providers) was previously assumed to be a filename relative to ~/.ssh but can now also be an absolute path

* Make PD E2E Tests Wait for Detach to Prevent Kernel Errors ([#29031](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29031), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))
* Fix "PVC Volume not detached if pod deleted via namespace deletion" issue ([#29077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29077), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))

* GCI: Update the command to get the image ([#24987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24987), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Validate deletion timestamp doesn't change on update ([#24839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24839), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Changelog since v1.7.14

### Other notable changes

* fixed foreground deletion of podtemplates ([#60683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60683), [@nilebox](https://github.com/nilebox))
* fix the error prone account creation method of blob disk ([#59739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59739), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Added `job_pods_creation_total` metrics for tracking Pods created by the Job controller labeled by events which triggered the Pod creation. ([#121481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121481), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- 'Promoted `cronjob_job_creation_skew` metric to stable to follow the cronjob v2 controller,
  the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:
    - `cronjob_job_creation_skew_duration_seconds` -> `job_creation_skew_duration_seconds`.' ([#113008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113008), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))