## Changelog since v1.6.8

### Other notable changes

* StatefulSet: Set hostname/subdomain fields on new Pods in addition to the deprecated annotations, to allow mitigation of Pod DNS issues upon upgrading to Kubernetes v1.7.x. ([#50942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50942), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

- Kubeadm: when adding new control plane nodes with "kubeamd join", ensure that the etcd member addition is performed only if a given member URL does not already exist in the list of members. Similarly, on "kubeadm reset" only remove an etcd member if its ID exists. ([#127491](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127491), [@SataQiu](https:...

SIG Windows is also including several addition to this release:
 - Direct Server Return (DSR) mode support, allowing large numbers of services to scale up efficiently
 - Windows containers  now honor CPU limits

  - example manifests for the kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-schedule, kubelet, and the cloud-controller-manager
  - labels/annotations that are consumed by any cloud specific controllers

In addition to the above, SIG Cloud Provider has been focusing on a long running effort to remove cloud provider code from kubernetes/kubernetes.

### SIG-cluster-lifecycle

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  - [beta] `kube-apiserver` now publishes a swagger 2.0 spec in addition to a swagger 1.2 spec ([kubernetes/features#53](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/53))

* In order to bypass graceful deletion of pods (to immediately remove the pod from the API) the user must now provide the `--force` flag in addition to `--grace-period=0`.  This prevents users from accidentally force deleting pods without being aware of the consequences of force deletion.  Force deleting pods for resources like StatefulSets can result in multiple pods with the same name having...

- Kubeadm: when adding new control plane nodes with "kubeamd join", ensure that the etcd member addition is performed only if a given member URL does not already exist in the list of members. Similarly, on "kubeadm reset" only remove an etcd member if its ID exists. ([#127622](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127622), [@SataQiu](https:...

Note that snapshot support will require Kubernetes distributors to bundle the Snapshot controller, Snapshot CRDs, and validation webhook. In addition, a CSI driver supporting the snapshot functionality must also be deployed on the cluster.

### Non-recursive Volume Ownership (FSGroup) graduates to Beta

* fixes kubefed's ability to create RBAC roles in version-skewed clusters ([#50537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50537), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fix data race during addition of new CRD ([#50098](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50098), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))