* Fix a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubectl: fixes regression in --sort-by behavior ([#71805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71805), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixes apiserver nil pointer panics when requesting v2beta1 autoscaling object metrics ([#71744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71744), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

* Fixes a panic in kube-controller-manager cleaning up bootstrap tokens ([#82887](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82887), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))
* Fixed a scheduler panic when using PodAffinity. ([#82841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82841), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubeadm: Added missing cluster-info context validation to prevent panics when the user has a malformed kubeconfig in the cluster-info ConfigMap that excludes a valid current context. ([#134715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134715), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#105793, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106356, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106112, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

* Add aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_{count,gauge} metrics in the kube-aggregator. ([#71380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71380), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Fixes apiserver nil pointer panics when requesting v2beta1 autoscaling object metrics ([#71744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71744), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#106391, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106354, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106113, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fixed very rare volume corruption when a pod is deleted while kubelet is offline.

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump version of fluentd-gcp to 2.0.18 to include latest security fixes. ([#67693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67693), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* Return apiserver panics as 500 errors instead terminating the apiserver process. ([#68001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68001), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Fixed provisioning of Cinder volumes migrated to CSI when StorageClass with AllowedTopologies was used. ([#98311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98311), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixes a panic in the disruption budget controller for PDB objects with invalid selectors ([#98777](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98777), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps]