## Detailed Bug Fixes And Changes

### API Machinery

- client-go: `PortForwarder.GetPorts()` now contain correct local port if no local port was initially specified when setting up the port forwarder ([#73676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73676), [@martin-helmich](https://github.com/martin-helmich))

### Structured Logging in Kubelet

Kubelet has adopted structured logging, thanks to community effort in accomplishing this within the release timeline. Structured logging in the project remains an ongoing effort -- for folks interested in participating, [keep an eye / chime in to the mailing list discussion](https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-dev/c/y4WIw-ntUR8).

### Internal Storage Layer

* Stackdriver cluster logging now deploys a new component to export Kubernetes events. ([#46700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46700), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

* Stackdriver Logging deployment exposes metrics on node port 31337 when enabled. ([#47402](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47402), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

## Other notable changes

### API Machinery

- Added port configuration to Admission webhook configuration service reference.
- Added port configuration to AuditSink webhook configuration service reference.
- Added port configuration to CRD Conversion webhook configuration service reference.

Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the system.
Here's the release [scalability validation report].

[SIG Scalability]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-scalability
[scalability validation report]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.8/scalability_validation_report.md

### SIG Scheduling

* The behavior of the default handler for 404 requests fro the GCE Ingress load balancer is slightly modified in the sense that it now exports metrics using prometheus. The metrics exported include:  ([#79106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79106), [@vbannai](https://github.com/vbannai))
    * - http_404_request_total  (the number of 404 requests handled)

 
## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- Controller-manager: the following flags have no effect and would be removed in v1.24:
  - `--port`
  - `--address`
  The insecure port flags `--port` may only be set to 0 now.
  
  In addtion, please be careful that:

- github.com/hashicorp/serf: [v0.8.2](https://github.com/hashicorp/serf/tree/v0.8.2)
- github.com/jpillora/backoff: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/jpillora/backoff/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report: [v0.9.1](https://github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report/tree/v0.9.1)
- github.com/kr/logfmt: [b84e30a](https://github.com/kr/logfmt/tree/b84e30a)
- github.com/kr/pty: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/kr/pty/tree/v1.1.1)

    * [prometheus-to-sd addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to 0.3.1 to pick up security fixes, bug fixes and new features.
    * [event-exporter addon] Bump event-exporter to 0.2.3 to pick up security fixes.