* kubelet now accepts a --cni-cache-dir option, which defaults to /var/lib/cni/cache, where CNI stores cache files. ([#78908](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78908), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

- Removed deprecated kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-logs-container support ([#109254](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109254), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Renamed `apiserver_watch_cache_watch_cache_initializations_total` to `apiserver_watch_cache_initializations_total` ([#109579](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109579), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Fix the bug PIP's DNS is deleted if no DNS label service annotation isn't set. ([#87310](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87310), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: set nil cache entry based on old cache ([#87593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87593), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Changelog since v1.9.7

### Other notable changes

* Fix a bug in scheduler cache by using Pod UID as the cache key instead of namespace/name ([#61069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61069), [@anfernee](https://github.com/anfernee))

- Updated cAdvisor to v0.47.2 - Fix metrics in cri-o when a container restarts ([#118797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118797), [@harche](https://github.com/harche)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

  - Regenerate list of EC2 instances
  - Fix pricing endpoint in AWS China Region
  
  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidation
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating

- Added support for Evented PLEG feature gate. ([#111384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111384), [@harche](https://github.com/harche))

- To reduce chances of throttling, VM cache is set to nil when Azure node provisioning state is deleting ([#87635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87635), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Updated cAdvisor to v0.44.2 - Fix metrics in cri-o when a container restarts ([#118800](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118800), [@harche](https://github.com/harche)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/google/cadvisor: [v0.44.1 → v0.44.2](https://github.com/google/cadvisor/compare/v0.44.1...v0.44.2)

* Fixed a bug in the API server watch cache, which could cause a missing watch event immediately after cache initialization. ([#49992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))



# v1.6.8