- [Changelog since v1.18.17](#changelog-since-v11817)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information)
    - [CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields](#cve-2021-25735-validating-admission-webhook-does-not-observe-some-previous-fields)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-2)
    - [API Change](#api-change-1)
    - [Feature](#feature)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-2)

  - [Changelog since v1.20.5](#changelog-since-v1205)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-1)
    - [CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields](#cve-2021-25735-validating-admission-webhook-does-not-observe-some-previous-fields)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-9)
    - [API Change](#api-change-2)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-9)

- Add metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

- Fixes an issue where an admission webhook can observe a v1 Pod object that does not have the `defaultMode` field set in the injected service account token volume in kube-api-server. ([#104523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104523), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  // NodePhase is the recently observed lifecycle phase of the node.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/nodes/node/#phase
  // The field is never populated, and now is deprecated.
  // +optional
  optional string phase = 3;

  // Conditions is an array of current observed node conditions.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/nodes/node/#condition

`--system-reserved` and `--kube-reserved` options to ensure that the specified number of process IDs will be reserved for the system as a whole and for Kubernetes system daemons respectively.  Please reference `Kube Reserved` and `System Reserved` in `Reserve Compute Resources for System Daemons` in the Kubernetes documentation for general discussion of resource reservation.  To utilize this functionality, you must set the feature gate `SupportNodePidsLimit=true` ([#73651](https://github.com/kubernete...

* Prevents a `kubectl delete` hang when deleting controller managed lists ([#65367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65367), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The conformance tests:
  - Services should serve multiport endpoints from pods
  - Services should serve a basic endpoint from pods
  were only validating the API objects, not performing any validation on the actual Services implementation.

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))