- [Taints and Tolerations](#taints-and-tolerations)
    - [Volumes](#volumes-2)
  - [Changes to Major Components](#changes-to-major-components)
    - [API Server](#api-server)
    - [API Server Aggregator](#api-server-aggregator)
      - [Generic API Server](#generic-api-server)
    - [Client](#client)
      - [client-go](#client-go)
    - [Cloud Provider](#cloud-provider)
      - [AWS](#aws)
      - [Azure](#azure)

- Kube-aggregator: always sets unavailableGauge metric to reflect the current state of a service. ([#87778](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87778), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixed an issue that prevents the linking of trace spans for requests that are proxied through kube-aggregator. ([#124189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124189), [@toddtreece](https://github.com/toddtreece))

- 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))

- Added port configuration to AuditSink webhook configuration service reference.
- Added port configuration to CRD Conversion webhook configuration service reference.
- Added port configuration to kube-aggregator service reference. ([#74855](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74855), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))

- Make EBS volume expansion faster ([#66728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66728), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Remove unused binary and container image for kube-aggregator. The functionality is already integrated into the kube-apiserver. ([#67157](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67157), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* Support OpenAPI spec aggregation for kube-aggregator ([#46734](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46734), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))

- Kube-apiserver: redirect responses are no longer returned from backends by default. Set `--aggregator-reject-forwarding-redirect=false` to continue forwarding redirect responses. ([#112193](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112193), [@jindijamie](https://github.com/jindijamie)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

* Add aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_{count,gauge} metrics in the kube-aggregator. ([#71380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71380), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Support OpenAPI spec aggregation for kube-aggregator ([#46734](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46734), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))