### Removed metrics

 ([#73001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73001), [@shivnagarajan](https://github.com/shivnagarajan))

* fixed foreground deletion of podtemplates ([#60683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60683), [@nilebox](https://github.com/nilebox))
* Timeout docker queries to prevent node going NotReady indefinitely. ([#56967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56967), [@jsravn](https://github.com/jsravn))

* The SubjectAccessReview API now passes subresource and resource name information to the authorizer to answer authorization queries. ([#40935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40935), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Autoscaling

- The new `-gce-zones` flag on the `e2e.test` binary instructs tests that check for information about how the cluster interacts with the cloud to limit their queries to the provided zone list. If not specified, the current behavior of asking the cloud provider for all available zones in multi zone clusters is preserved. ([#98787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98787), [@smarterclayton](https://...

- Fixed API response for `StorageClassList` queries to return a graceful error message, if the provided `ResourceVersion` is too large. ([#132374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132374), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests
Node-local DNS cache feature is available in Alpha. This feature deploys a lightweight DNS caching Daemonset that avoids the conntrack and converts queries from UDP to more reliable TCP.
PodReady++ feature now has `kubectl` CLI support.

Progress was made towards finalizing the IPv6 dual stack support KEP and support for topological routing of services.

### SIG Node

* Adds a new alpha EventRateLimit admission control that is used to limit the number of event queries that are accepted by the API Server. ([#50925](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50925), [@staebler](https://github.com/staebler))

- This PR adds additional validation for endpoint ip configuration while iterating through queried endpoint list. ([#117226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117226), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- This PR adds additional validation for endpoint ip configuration while iterating through queried endpoint list. ([#117225](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117225), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]