- Fixed an issue where the default `serviceCIDR` controller did not log events because the event broadcaster was shutdown during initialization. ([#133338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133338), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Fixes a goroutine leak in kube-apiserver when a request times out. ([#83333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83333), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))

* Fixes a goroutine leak in kube-apiserver when a request times out. ([#83333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83333), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))
* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kube-apiserver now reports metrics for authorization decisions in the `apiserver_authorization_decisions_total` metric, labeled by authorizer type, name, and decision. ([#123333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123333), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- Kube-apiserver: Authorization webhooks now report the following metrics:
  - apiserver_authorization_webhook_evaluations_total

- Fixed a bug in the Job controller that could result in creating unnecessary Pods for Jobs already marked as finished (either successful or failed). ([#130333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130333), [@kmala](https://github.com/kmala)) [SIG Apps and Testing]