- Volumes are no longer detached from healthy nodes after 6 minutes timeout. 6 minute force-detach timeout is used only for unhealthy nodes (`node.status.conditions["Ready"]!= true`). ([#110721](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110721), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- Reduce default NodeStatusReportFrequency to 5 minutes. With this change, periodic node status updates will be send every 5m if node status doesn't change (otherwise they are still send with 10s).

  Bump NodeProblemDetector version to v0.8.0 to reduce forced NodeStatus updates frequency to 5 minutes. ([#84007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84007), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Fixes bug in DaemonSetController causing it to stop processing some DaemonSets for 5 minutes after node removal. ([#76060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76060), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

* TokenRequests now are required to have an expiration duration between 10 minutes and 2^32 seconds. ([#63999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63999), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

* CSI detach timeout increased from 10 seconds to 2 minutes ([#84321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84321), [@cduchesne](https://github.com/cduchesne))
* Update to use go1.12.12 ([#84064](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84064), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* CSI detach timeout increased from 10 seconds to 2 minutes ([#84321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84321), [@cduchesne](https://github.com/cduchesne))

* PidPressure evicts pods from lowest priority to highest priority ([#72844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72844), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Kubeadm increased to 5 minutes its timeout for the TLS bootstrapping process to complete upon join ([#89735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89735), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Mark `net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start` as safe `sysctl`. ([#103326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103326), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Metrics server nanny has now poll period set to 30s (previously 5 minutes) to allow faster scaling of metrics server. ([#101869](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101869), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]