- In the API Priority and Fairness feature, priority levels that are exempt from limitation can now be given a nominal and a lendable concurrency and their dispatching borrows from the concurrency limits of the other priority levels.  For details see https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-api-machinery/1040-priority-and-fairness#dispatching . ([#118782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube...

- Azure: fix a bug that kube-controller-manager would panic if wrong Azure VMSS name is configured ([#94306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94306), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix a concurrent map writes error in kubelet ([#93773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93773), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Node]

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_current_limit_seats`: current derived number of execution seats available to each priority level

*   Added the concurrent service sync flag to the Cloud Controller Manager to allow changing the number of workers. (`--concurrent-service-syncs`) ([#55561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55561),[ @jhorwit2](https://github.com/jhorwit2))

- Correctly handle resetting cpuacct in a live container ([#94041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94041), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Node and Windows]
- Fix a concurrent map writes error in kubelet ([#93773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93773), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Node]

* adjusted http/2 buffer sizes for apiservers to prevent starvation issues between concurrent streams ([#67902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67902), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    - Chains for endpoints that won't be used are no longer output to
      iptables, saving a bit of memory/time/cpu. (#106373, @aojea) [SIG Network]
- Watch requests that are delegated to aggregated apiservers no longer reserve concurrency units (seats) in the API Priority and Fairness dispatcher for their entire duration. (#105827, @benluddy) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

## Changelog since v1.7.10

### Other notable changes

* Bugfix: master startup script on GCP no longer fails randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  
  This fixes a bug where clients with requests using hand size x max seats greater than the nominal concurrency limit can starve other requests in the same priority level. ([#118601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118601), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

- Watch requests that are delegated to aggregated API servers no longer reserve concurrency units (seats) in the API Priority and Fairness dispatcher for their entire duration. ([#105511](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105511), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))