* enforces  kubeadm  upgrading kubernetes from the same major and minor versions as the kubeadm binary.
* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

- If `ComponentSLIs` feature gate is enabled, then `/metrics/slis` becomes available on kubelet, allowing you to scrape health check metrics. ([#113030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113030), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker)) [SIG Node]

*   [alpha] Volume resizing
    *   Added file system resizing for the following volume plugins: GCE PD, Ceph RBD, AWS EBS, OpenStack Cinder
*   [alpha] Topology Aware Volume Scheduling
    *   Improved volume scheduling for Local PersistentVolumes, by allowing the scheduler to make PersistentVolume binding decisions while respecting the Pod's scheduling requirements.

- A new sleep action for the `PreStop` lifecycle hook was added, allowing containers to pause for a specified duration before termination. ([#119026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119026), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

- Since golang 1.17 both net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR rejects leading zeros in the dot-decimal notation of IPv4 addresses,
  Kubernetes will keep allowing leading zeros on IPv4 address to not break the compatibility.

* Fixes issue where subpath readOnly mounts failed ([#63045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63045), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* Bugfix allowing use of IP-aliases with custom-mode network in GCE setup scripts. ([#62172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62172), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

- Introduces new alpha functionality to the reflector, allowing user to enable API streaming.
  
  To activate this feature, users can set the `ENABLE_CLIENT_GO_WATCH_LIST_ALPHA` environmental variable.

- Improve logging of `APIService` availability changes in kube-apiserver. ([#101420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101420), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
- Introduce a feature gate `DisableCloudProviders` allowing to disable cloud-provider initialization in KAPI, KCM and kubelet.

- This change picks up the latest GCE pinhole firewall feature, which introduces destination-ranges in the ingress firewall-rules. It restricts the access to the backend IPs via allowing traffic via allowing traffic through ILB or NetLB IP only. This change does NOT change the existing ILB or NetLB behavior. ([#109510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109510), [@sugangli](https://github.com/sugangli)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture,...

* Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability...