* calico-node addon tolerates all NoExecute and NoSchedule taints by default. ([#57122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57122), [@caseydavenport](https://github.com/caseydavenport))
* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Client-go: reduce verbosity of "Starting/Stopping reflector" messages to 3 again ([#102788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102788), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Scheduler volumebinding: leveraged `PreFilterResult` to reduce down to only
  eligible node(s) for pod with bound claim(s) to local `PersistentVolume(s)` ([#109877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109877), [@yibozhuang](https://github.com/yibozhuang))

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- 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).

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.21.0
  - kube-apiserver v1.20.6
  - kube-apiserver v1.19.10
  - kube-apiserver v1.18.18

This vulnerability was reported by Rogerio Bastos & Ari Lima from RedHat


**CVSS Rating:** Medium (6.5) [CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

* kubelet: Fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56708](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56708), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))
* Add iptables rules to allow Pod traffic even when default iptables policy is to reject. ([#52569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52569), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))

- Reduce delay when processing jobs after a transient API error ([#118759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118759), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))