* fluentd config for GKE clusters updated: detect exceptions in container log streams and forward them as one log entry. ([#39656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39656), [@thomasschickinger](https://github.com/thomasschickinger))

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

- Verify that CRD default values in OpenAPI specs are pruned, with the exceptions of values under `metadata`. ([#78829](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78829), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

* Fix kubectl describe CronJobs error of `Successful Job History Limit`. ([#77347](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77347), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
* Remove extra pod creation exceptions when daemonset fails to create pods in batches. ([#74856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74856), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))