* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
    * [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.

- Fixed stale SMB mount issue when SMB file share is deleted and then unmounted. ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed the bug where images that were pinned by the container runtime could be garbage collected by `kubelet`. ([#119986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119986), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))

### Azure

- Fixed failure to detach Azure disk when there is server side error ([#74398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74398), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed subnet annotation checking for Azure internal loadbalancer ([#74498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fixed CSI `PersistentVolumes` to allow Secrets names longer than 63 characters. ([#114776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114776), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
- Fixed Route controller to update routes when NodeIP changes ([#108095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108095), [@lzhecheng](https://github.com/lzhecheng))

- Fixed bug in reflector that couldn't recover from "Too large resource version" errors with API servers 1.17.0-1.18.5 ([#94316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94316), [@janeczku](https://github.com/janeczku)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fixed the EndpointSliceController to correctly create endpoints for IPv6-only pods.
  

## Changelog since v1.17.7

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed: log timestamps now include trailing zeros to maintain a fixed width ([#91207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91207), [@iamchuckss](https://github.com/iamchuckss)) [SIG Apps and Node]

### Bug or Regression

* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
    * [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.

- Fixed bug where Server Side Apply causes spurious resourceVersion bumps on no-op patches to custom resources. ([#125263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125263), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
- Fixed bug where kubectl get with --sort-by flag does not sort strings alphanumerically. ([#124514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124514), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley))

- Fixed a possible memory leak in the QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#126962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126962), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- Fixed a potential memory leak in QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#127016](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127016), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

    - [SIG vSphere](#sig-vsphere)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
    - [Additional changes](#additional-changes)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
  - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [General Fixes and Reliability](#general-fixes-and-reliability)
  - [Non-user-facing changes](#non-user-facing-changes)
- [v1.11.0-rc.3](#v1110-rc3)
  - [Downloads for v1.11.0-rc.3](#downloads-for-v1110-rc3)