* ACTION REQUIRED: In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14+, 1.8.9+, and 1.9.4+ are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first. ([#61373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61373), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Other notable changes

- Changed node staging path for CSI driver to use a PV agnostic path. Nodes must be drained before updating the kubelet with this change. ([#107065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107065), [@saikat-royc](https://github.com/saikat-royc))

  /**
   * Constructs a new {@code CacheStats} instance.
   *
   * <p>Five parameters of the same type in a row is a bad thing, but this class is not constructed
   * by end users and is too fine-grained for a builder.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("GoodTime") // should accept a java.time.Duration
  public CacheStats(
      long hitCount,
      long missCount,
      long loadSuccessCount,
      long loadExceptionCount,

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
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].

- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.
   ([#122058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122058), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.

## Changelog since v1.9.6

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9, and 1.9.4 are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first. ([#61373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61373), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Other notable changes

## Changelog since v1.7.15

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: In-place node upgrades to this release from versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9, and 1.9.4 are not supported if using subpath volumes with PVCs.  Such pods should be drained from the node first. ([#61373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61373), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Other notable changes

    /**
     * User property for chained LRM: the new "head" local repository to use, and "push" the existing into tail.
     * Similar to <code>maven.repo.local.tail</code>, this property may contain comma separated list of paths to be
     * used as local repositories (combine with chained local repository), but while latter is "appending" this
     * one is "prepending".
     *

        assertEquals(message, exception.getMessage());
        assertNull(exception.getCause());
    }

    public void test_constructor_withCauseChain() {
        // Test constructor with chained exceptions
        final Exception rootCause = new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid argument");
        final Exception middleCause = new RuntimeException("Runtime error", rootCause);

      :
#if !defined(IS_MOBILE_PLATFORM) && !defined(IS_SLIM_BUILD)
        api_def_map(op_list),
#endif  // !defined(IS_MOBILE_PLATFORM) && !defined(IS_SLIM_BUILD)
        update_docs_called(false) {
  }

#if !defined(IS_MOBILE_PLATFORM) && !defined(IS_SLIM_BUILD)
  tensorflow::ApiDefMap api_def_map TF_GUARDED_BY(lock);
#endif  // !defined(IS_MOBILE_PLATFORM) && !defined(IS_SLIM_BUILD)