*   Termination grace period for the calico/node add-on DaemonSet has been eliminated, reducing downtime during a rolling upgrade or deletion. ([#55015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55015),[ @fasaxc](https://github.com/fasaxc))

## Changelog since v1.7.7

### Other notable changes

* Ignore pods marked for deletion that exceed their grace period in ResourceQuota ([#46542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46542), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

* Reduce verbosity of volume reconciler when attaching volumes ([#36900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36900), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))
* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not. ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

tifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-amd64), [arm](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-arm), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-ppc64le), [s390x](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-s390x)...

.16](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-amd64), [arm](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-arm), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-ppc64le), [s390x](https://console.cloud.google.c...

### CLI Improvements

- the new flag `--endpoint-updates-batch-period` in kube-controller-manager can be used to reduce the number of endpoints updates generated by pod changes. ([#80509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80509), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

(https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance-amd64), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance-ppc64le), [s390x](https://...

* Pods that are marked for deletion and have exceeded their grace period, but are not yet deleted, no longer count toward the resource quota.([#46542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46542))


#### Dynamic Admission Control

.17](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-amd64), [arm](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-arm), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/conformance-ppc64le), [s390x](https://console.cloud.google.c...

* Controller-manager --service-sync-period flag has been removed. (It was never used in the code and should have no user impact.) ([#59359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59359), [@khenidak](https://github.com/khenidak))