- Export `NewDebuggingRoundTripper` function and `DebugLevel` options in the k8s.io/client-go/transport package. ([#98324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98324), [@atosatto](https://github.com/atosatto))

- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Made `kube-aggregator` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114227), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
* - Improved generation of deb and rpm packages in bazel build ([#53163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53163), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- Moved `k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cri/streaming` package to `k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/cri/streaming`. ([#118253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118253), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node, Release and Security]

* CRI has been moved to package `pkg/kubelet/apis/cri/v1alpha1/runtime`. ([#47113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47113), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

PatchOptions respectively. Signatures of Delete and DeleteCollection methods now accept DeleteOptions by value instead of by reference. Generated clientsets with the previous interface have been added in new "deprecated" packages to allow incremental migration to the new APIs. The deprecated packages will be removed in the 1.21 release. A tool is available at http://sigs.k8s.io/clientgofix to rewrite method invocations to the new signatures.

- The following deprecated metrics are removed, please...

* Images based on debian-base no longer include the libsystemd0 package. This should have no user-facing impact. ([#69995](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69995), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))
    * Additionally, the addon-manager image is updated to use kubectl v1.11.3.

- Expose a `NewUnstructuredExtractor` from apply configurations `meta/v1` package that enables extracting objects into unstructured apply configurations. ([#103564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103564), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado))

- Default burst limit for the discovery client set to 300. ([#109141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109141), [@ulucinar](https://github.com/ulucinar))
- Deleted the `apimachinery/clock` package. Please use `k8s.io/utils/clock` package instead. ([#109752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109752), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani))

- Remove insecure serving configuration from cloud-provider package, which is consumed by cloud-controller-managers. ([#108953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108953), [@nckturner](https://github.com/nckturner))