- Aggregated discovery requests can now timeout. Aggregated API servers must complete discovery calls within 5 seconds (other requests can take longer). Use the feature gate `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout=false` to temporarily revert behavior to the previous 30 second timeout if required (the temporary `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout` feature gate will be removed in v1.17). ([#82146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82146), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))...

  - Fix a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117267), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105404, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104687, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105239, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Revert regression that prevented client-go latency metrics to be reported with a template URL to avoid label cardinality. ([#112056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112056), [@aanm](https://github.com/aanm)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.15.0; changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.15.0 ([#78866](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78866), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
* Revert the CoreDNS version to 1.3.1 ([#78691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78691), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))

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## Changelog since v1.6.7

### Other notable changes

* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

  - Fix a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117268), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]

* kubeadm: Fix join preflight check false negative ([#49825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49825), [@erhudy](https://github.com/erhudy))
* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))