* Fix scheduling starvation of pods in cluster with large number of unschedulable pods. ([#72619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72619), [@everpeace](https://github.com/everpeace))
* change azure disk host cache to ReadOnly by default ([#72229](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72229), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

  - *apiserver_cache_list_total*: Counter of LIST requests served from watch cache, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name
  - *apiserver_cache_list_fetched_objects_total*: Counter of objects read from watch cache in the course of serving a LIST request, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name

* 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))

  - 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

- 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)

- Fix availability set cache in vmss cache ([#100110](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100110), [@CecileRobertMichon](https://github.com/CecileRobertMichon)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- 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]

* 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

- `etcd_helper_cache_hit_count` -> `etcd_helper_cache_hit_total`
- `etcd_helper_cache_miss_count` -> `etcd_helper_cache_miss_total`
- `etcd_helper_cache_entry_count` -> `etcd_helper_cache_entry_total`
- `etcd_request_cache_get_latencies_summary` -> `etcd_request_cache_get_latency_seconds`
- `etcd_request_cache_add_latencies_summary` -> `etcd_request_cache_add_latency_seconds`