- When the go-client reflector relists, the ResourceVersion list option is set to the reflector's latest synced resource version to ensure the reflector does not "go back in time" and reprocess events older than it has already processed. If the server responds with an HTTP 410 (Gone) status code response, the relist falls back to using `resourceVersion=""`. ([#83520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83520), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Added `kubelet` Topology Manager metrics to track admission requests processed and occured admission errors. ([#115137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115137), [@swatisehgal](https://github.com/swatisehgal))

  For more information, see [#47131](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47131)

*   If a namespaced resource is owned by a cluster scoped resource, and the namespaced dependent is processed before the cluster scoped owner has ever been observed by the garbage collector, the dependent will be erroneously deleted.

  For more information, see [#54940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/54940)

for COS images on GCE has changed to `/home/kubernetes/flexvolume`, rather than `/etc/srv/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec`. Existing Flexvolume installations in clusters using COS images must be moved to the new directory, and installation processes must be updated with the new path. ([#58171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58171), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

* Default values differ between the Kubelet's componentconfig (config file) API and the Kubelet's...

* Fix an issue in inter-pod affinity predicate that cause affinity to self being processed correctly ([#62591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62591), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

### SIG-cloud-provider

This is the first Kubernetes release for this SIG! In v1.12, SIG Cloud Provider focused on building the processes and infrastructure to better support existing and new cloud providers. Some of these initiatives (many of which are still in progress) are:

    * Each deployment method should bind users/groups to the ClusterRoles if they are using this feature.
* Adds AllowPrivilegeEscalation to control whether a process can gain more privileges than its parent process ([#47019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47019), [@jessfraz](https://github.com/jessfraz))

## Changelog since v1.18.13

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Add a new flag to set priority for the kubelet on Windows nodes so that workloads cannot overwhelm the node there by disrupting kubelet process. ([#96158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96158), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG Node]

### Bug or Regression

- If using cgroups v2, then the cgroup aware OOM killer will be enabled for container cgroups via  `memory.oom.group` .  This causes processes within the cgroup to be treated as a unit and killed simultaneously in the event of an OOM kill on any process in the cgroup. ([#117793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117793), [@tzneal](https://github.com/tzneal)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

- Introduce kubectl-convert plugin. ([#96190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96190), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI and Testing]
- Kube-scheduler now logs processed component config at startup ([#96426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96426), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Scheduling]