- Added `ImageMaximumGCAge` field to Kubelet configuration, which allows a user to set the maximum age an image is unused before it's garbage collected. ([#121275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121275), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))
- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.

For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
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<p>
Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming
in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit
support for concurrent programming.  Programs are constructed from
<i>packages</i>, whose properties allow efficient management of
dependencies.
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- Added a "reason" field to the "image_garbage_collected_total" metric, allowing administrators to differentiate between images that were collected for reasons "age" vs "space".
   ([#123345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123345), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))

* Update kube-dns to Version 1.14.8 that includes only small changes to how Prometheus metrics are collected. ([#57918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57918), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))

- Replace scale up forbidden window with disregarding CPU samples collected when pod was initializing. ([#67252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67252), [@jbartosik](https://github.com/jbartosik))

#### Garbage Collector
* The garbage collector now supports custom APIs added via Custom Resource Definitions
  or aggregated API servers. The garbage collector controller refreshes periodically.
  Therefore, expect a latency of about 30 seconds between when an API is added and when
  the garbage collector starts to manage it.


#### Monitoring/Prometheus

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

* Update kube-dns to Version 1.14.8 that includes only small changes to how Prometheus metrics are collected. ([#57918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57918), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120054](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120054), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]

- Remove cAdvisor json metrics api collected by Kubelet ([#99236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99236), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]