* Old flag `--skip-preflight-checks` is marked as deprecated and acts as `--ignore-preflight-errors=all`
* Block volumes Support: CRI, volumemanager and operationexecutor changes ([#51494](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51494), [@mtanino](https://github.com/mtanino))

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127210), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added

  slightly stricter about what values will be accepted as IP addresses and network
  address ranges (“CIDR blocks”).
  
  In particular, octets within IPv4 addresses are not allowed to have any leading
  `0`s, and IPv4-mapped IPv6 values (e.g. `::ffff:192.168.0.1`) are forbidden.
  These sorts of values can potentially cause security problems when different
  components interpret the same string as referring to different IP addresses

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- kube-apiserver: fixes `procMount` field incorrectly being marked as required in openapi schema ([#69694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69694), [@jessfraz](https://github.com/jessfraz))

### SIG OpenStack

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* Add basic audit logging ([#27087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27087), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Marked NodePhase deprecated. ([#30005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30005), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))

* New client-go structure ([#34989](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34989), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Remove scheduler flags that were marked as deprecated 2+ releases ago. ([#34471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34471), [@timothysc](https://github.com/timothysc))

### Other notable changes

## 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))

- The deprecated `--pod`/`-p` flag for `kubectl exec` has been removed. The flag has been marked as deprecated since k8s version v1.12. ([#76713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76713), [@prksu](https://github.com/prksu))


#### Lifecycle