### Service Catalog
- **[alpha]** Adds a new API resource `PodPreset` and admission controller to enable defining cross-cutting injection of Volumes and Environment into Pods.

### Volumes
* **[stable]** StorageClass API is promoted to v1 (storage.k8s.io/v1).

- Kube-scheduler: emits a warning when a malformed component config file is used with v1alpha1. ([#84129](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84129), [@obitech](https://github.com/obitech))
- Kube-scheduler now falls back to emitting events using core/v1 Events when events.k8s.io/v1beta1 is disabled. ([#83692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83692), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

* kubectl: fixes issue with `-o yaml` and `-o json` omitting kind and apiVersion when used with `--dry-run` ([#61808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61808), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubectl: fixes issue with `-o yaml` and `-o json` omitting kind and apiVersion when used with `--dry-run` ([#61808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61808), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  * Implement API usage metrics for GCE storage. ([#40338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40338), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

  * Add support for emitting metrics from openstack cloudprovider about storage operations. ([#46008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46008), [@NickrenREN](https://github.com/NickrenREN))

Tamas Bela Feher, Tao Xu, Thibaut Goetghebuer-Planchon, Thomas Schmeyer,
tilakrayal, Valery Mironov, Victor Guo, Vignesh Kothapalli, Vishnuvardhan
Janapati, wamuir, Wang,Quintin, William Muir, William Raveane, Yash Goel, Yimei
Sun, Yong Tang, Yuduo Wu

# Release 2.7.1

This releases introduces several vulnerability fixes:

- After DBus restarts, make `GracefulNodeShutdown` work again ([#100369](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100369), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming))
- Aggregate errors when putting vmss. ([#98350](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98350), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Feature of `PreferNominatedNode` is graduated to GA. ([#106619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106619), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

- Fixed a bug where pv recycler failed to scrub volume with too many files in the directory due to hitting ARG_MAX limit with rm command (#117189). ([#117283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117283), [@defo89](https://github.com/defo89)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* kube-scheduler now fallbacks to emitting events using core/v1 Events when events.k8s.io/v1beta1 is disabled. ([#83692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83692), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))