- [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-15)
    - [Deprecation](#deprecation)
    - [API Change](#api-change-4)
    - [Feature](#feature-14)
    - [Documentation](#documentation)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-15)
    - [Other (Cleanup or Flake)](#other-cleanup-or-flake-4)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-16)
    - [Added](#added-16)
    - [Changed](#changed-16)

                         * Apparently once a successful NTLMSSP login occurs, the
                         * server will return "Access denied" even if a logoff is
                         * sent. Unfortunately calling disconnect() doesn't always
                         * actually shutdown the connection before other threads
                         * have committed themselves (e.g. InterruptTest example).
                         */

* kubectl cp now safely allows unpacking of symlinks that may point outside the destination directory ([#82384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82384), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* Limit use of tags when calling EC2 API to prevent API throttling for very large clusters ([#76749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76749), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))

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     * If no DACL is present, null is returned. If the DACL is empty, an array with 0 elements is returned.
     * <p>
     * Note that this is different from calling <tt>getSecurity</tt> on a
     * share. There are actually two different ACLs for shares - the ACL on
     * the share and the ACL on the folder being shared.
     * Go to <i>Computer Management</i>

   * benchmarking
   * on Open JDK 7, {@link #immutableSortedCopy} generally performs better (in both time and space)
   * than this method, and this method in turn generally performs better than copying the list and
   * calling {@link Collections#sort(List)}.
   */
  // TODO(kevinb): rerun benchmarks including new options
  public <E extends T> List<E> sortedCopy(Iterable<E> elements) {

* Fix initial exec terminal dimensions. ([#51126](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51126), [@chen-anders](https://github.com/chen-anders))
* vSphere: Fix attach volume failing on the first try. ([#51218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51218), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))



# v1.6.9

    - [Container Images](#container-images-10)
  - [Changelog since v1.26.4](#changelog-since-v1264)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-10)
    - [API Change](#api-change-4)
    - [Feature](#feature-10)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-10)
    - [Other (Cleanup or Flake)](#other-cleanup-or-flake-3)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-10)
    - [Added](#added-10)
    - [Changed](#changed-10)

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

  * Success and latency metrics for all Kubernetes calls are available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API. You can request volume operations, including mount, unmount, attach, detach, provision, and delete.

* Allow attach of volumes to multiple nodes for vSphere ([#51066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51066), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* vSphere: Fix attach volume failing on the first try. ([#51217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51217), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))