- kube-apiserver: the `--runtime-config` flag now supports an `api/beta=false` value which disables all built-in REST API versions matching `v[0-9]+beta[0-9]+`. ([#84304](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84304), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * try to only update vm if detach a non-existing disk when got <200, error> after detach disk operation
* fix pod stuck issue due to corrupt mnt point in flexvol plugin, call Unmount if PathExists returns any error ([#75234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75234), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Switch to VM Update call in attach/detach disk operation, original CreateOrUpdate call may lead to orphaned VMs or blocked resources ([#81208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81208), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Kubeadm: do not...

- Optimize code, filter podUID is empty string when call this `getPodAndContainerForDevice` method. ([#126997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126997), [@...

    * inside of which a write lock was intended to prevent races against
    * VM creation, but the usage of the sync.RWMutex type is incorrect,
    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal

  - Clone `kubernetes/kubernetes` in `update-vendor.sh` shallowly, instead of fetching all revisions
  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)
  - Speed up finding unneeded nodes by 5x+ in very large clusters by reducing the number of PreFilter calls

## Changelog since v1.18.0-alpha.2

### Deprecation

- Remove all the generators from kubectl run. It will now only create pods. Additionally, deprecates all the flags that are not relevant anymore. ([#87077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87077), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Architecture, SIG CLI, and SIG Testing]

- CRI-API: IPs returned by `PodSandboxNetworkStatus`` are ignored by the kubelet for host-network pods. ([#106715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106715), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))
- Call `NodeExpand` on all nodes in case of RWX volumes ([#108693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108693), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU responding with very large lists.  This feature is gated as APIListChunking and is not enabled by default.  The 1.9 release will begin using this by default from all informers. ([#48921](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48921),...