Multi vCenter support is deprecated as of v1.21. If you have a Kubernetes cluster spanning across multiple vCenter servers, please consider moving all k8s nodes to a single vCenter Server. vSphere CSI Driver does not support Kubernetes deployment spanning across multiple vCenter servers.
  

leads to Node goes `Not-ready` state when credentials for vCenter stored in a secret and Zones feature is in use. Zone labels setup moved to KCM component, kubelet skips this step during startup in such case. If credentials stored in cloud-provider config file as plaintext current behaviour does not change and no action required. For proper functioning `kube-system:vsphere-legacy-cloud-provider` should be allowed to update node object if vCenter credentials stored in secret and Zone feature used. ([...

  
  The CSI Migration feature for vSphere Volume also requires minimum vSphere vCenter/ESXi Version to be 7.0u1 and minimum HW Version to be VM version 15.
  

* Loadbalanced client src ip preservation enters beta ([#33957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33957), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))

- Add a new `vSphere` metric: `cloudprovider_vsphere_vcenter_versions`. Its content shows `vCenter` hostnames with the associated server version. ([#94526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94526), [@Danil-Grigorev](https://github.com/Danil-Grigorev)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]

        benchmarks.
    *   `image.resize` in 2.0 now supports gradients for the new resize kernels.
    *   `image.resize` now considers proper pixel centers and has new kernels
        (incl. anti-aliasing).
    *   Renamed `tf.image` functions to remove duplicate "image" where it is
        redundant.

- VSphere releases less than 7.0u2 are not supported for in-tree vSphere volume  as of Kubernetes v1.25. Please consider upgrading vSphere (both ESXi and vCenter)  to 7.0u2 or above. ([#111255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111255), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

## 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))

* 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))

* fix pdb validation bug on PodDisruptionBudgetSpec ([#48706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48706), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))