- The kubelet now honors the configuration userNamespaces.idsPerPod. Before it was ignored. ([#133373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133373), [@AkihiroSuda](https://github.com/AkihiroSuda)) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Introduction of the pod overhead feature to the scheduler. This functionality is alpha-level as of
  Kubernetes v1.16, and is only honored by servers that enable the PodOverhead feature.gate. ([#78319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78319), [@egernst](https://github.com/egernst))

* Fixed controller manager crash by making it tolerant to discovery errors.([#49767](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49767), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

    * The `kube-cloud-controller-manager` flag `--use-service-account-credentials` is now honored consistently, regardless of whether `--service-account-private-key-file` was specified.

*   The "ServiceNodeExclusion" feature gate must now be enabled for the `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` annotation on nodes to be honored. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644),[ @brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

### **Scheduling**

*   Taint key `unreachable` is now in GA.

- Added `.spec.completionMode` field to Job, with accepted values `NonIndexed` (default) and `Indexed`. This is an alpha field and is only honored by servers with the `IndexedJob` feature gate enabled. ([#98441](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98441), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and CLI]

- Disabled `LocalStorageCapacityIsolation` feature gate is honored during scheduling. ([#96181](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96181), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- The `--leader-elect*` CLI args are now honored in scheduler. ([#105915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105915), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- The `--leader-elect*` CLI args are now honored in the scheduler. ([#105712](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105712), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Graceful termination will now be honored when deleting a collection of pods. ([#100101](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100101), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

- Fixed a bug where dry-run is not honored for pod/eviction sub-resource. ([#76969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76969), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))