### Bug or Regression

- Signal handling is now initialized within hyperkube commands that require it, such as apiserver and kubelet. ([#76659](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76659), [@S-Chan](https://github.com/S-Chan))

- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` for `kubectl drain` has been promoted to beta, and enabled by default. This flag  may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#100148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100148), [@KnVerey](https://github.com/KnVerey))

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))

### SIG Apps

- KCCM: fixed transient node addition and removal caused by #121090 while syncing load balancers on large clusters with a lot of churn. ([#121091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121091), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

* Fix initial exec terminal dimensions. ([#51126](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51126), [@chen-anders](https://github.com/chen-anders))
* vSphere: Fix attach volume failing on the first try. ([#51218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51218), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))



# v1.6.9

* Fixed regression in initial kubectl exec terminal dimensions ([#51127](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51127), [@chen-anders](https://github.com/chen-anders))

- Fixed `threadSafeMap` high memory usage caused by indices that have churn of high-cardinality keys. E.g. namespaces ([#88007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88007), [@patrickshan](https://github.com/patrickshan)) [SIG API Machinery]

*   [beta] Flag `--chunk-size={SIZE}` is added to `kubectl get` to customize the number of results returned in large lists of resources. This reduces the perceived latency of managing large clusters because the server returns the first set of results to the client much more...