- If the custom resource participates the spec/status convention, the metadata.generation of the CR increments when there is any change, except for the changes to the metadata or the changes to the status.
  - If the custom resource does not participate the spec/status convention, the metadata.generation of the CR increments when there is any change to the CR, except for changes to the metadata.

UpdateOptions and PatchOptions respectively. Signatures of Delete and DeleteCollection methods now accept DeleteOptions by value instead of by reference. Generated clientsets with the previous interface have been added in new "deprecated" packages to allow incremental migration to the new APIs. The deprecated packages will be removed in the 1.21 release. A tool is available at http://sigs.k8s.io/clientgofix to rewrite method invocations to the new signatures.

- The following deprecated metrics are...

- Added `ListPager.EachListItem` utility function to client-go to enable incremental processing of chunked list responses ([#75849](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75849), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

  clock desync. ([#118922](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118922), [@champtar](https://github.com/champtar))
- `plugin_evaluation_total` metric supports prescore/score extension point.
  The metric doesn't get incremented when the prescore/score plugin has nothing to do with an incoming pod. ([#118025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118025), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

### Documentation

- Changed metadata management for Pods to populate `.metadata.generation` on writes. New pods will have a `metadata.generation` of 1; updates to mutable fields in the Pod `.spec` will result in `metadata.generation` being incremented by 1. ([#130181](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130181), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

- Fixed issue with incremental id generation for `loadbalancer` and `endpoint` in `kubeproxy` mock test framework. ([#120723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120723), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira))

- New plugin_evaluation_total is added to the scheduler.This metric counts how many times the specific plugin affects the scheduling result. The metric does not get incremented when the plugin has nothing to do with an incoming Pod. ([#115082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115082), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

- EndpointSlice generation is now incremented when labels change. ([#99750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99750), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

- etcd: Built image for `v3.5.11`.
   ([#122233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122233), [@mzaian](https://github.com/mzaian))

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

SIG Cluster Lifecycle focused on improving kubeadm’s user experience by including a set of new commands related to maintaining the kubeadm configuration file, the API version of which has now has been incremented to `v1alpha2`. These commands can handle the migration of the configuration to a newer version, printing the default configuration, and listing and pulling the required container images for bootstrapping a cluster.