- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))

* fix azure disk storage account init issue ([#55927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55927), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Allow code-generator tags in the 2nd closest comment block and directly above a statement. ([#55233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55233), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Created k8s.gcr.io image repo alias to pull images from the closest regional repo. Replaces gcr.io/google_containers. ([#57824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57824), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

A <code>nil</code> channel is never ready for communication.
</p>

<p>
A channel may be closed with the built-in function
<a href="#Close"><code>close</code></a>.
The multi-valued assignment form of the
<a href="#Receive_operator">receive operator</a>
reports whether a received value was sent before
the channel was closed.
</p>

<p>
A single channel may be used in

- Apiserver add a new flag --goaway-chance which is the fraction of requests that will be closed gracefully(GOAWAY) to prevent HTTP/2 clients from getting stuck on a single apiserver. 
  After the connection closed(received GOAWAY), the client's other in-flight requests won't be affected, and the client will reconnect. 

- `DelayingQueue.ShutDown()` can now be invoked multiple times without causing a closed channel panic. ([#77170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77170), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- The plugin mechanism functionality now closely follows the git plugin design ([#66876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66876), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

   ([#123190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123190), [@padlar](https://github.com/padlar))
- Allowed scheduling framework plugins that implement `io.Closer` to be gracefully closed.
   ([#122498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122498), [@Gekko0114](https://github.com/Gekko0114))
- Bumped cAdvisor to `v0.49.0`.

- Fixes regression in logging spurious stack traces when proxied connections are closed by the backend ([#82588](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82588), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The Kubernetes API server now correctly detects and closes existing TLS connections when its client certificate file for kubelet authentication has been rotated. ([#115567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115567), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]