- `kube-apiserver` updated:

### Node

SIG Node iterated on the ability to support more workloads with better performance and improved reliability.  Alpha features were improved around hardware accelerator support, device plugins enablement, and cpu pinning policies to enable us to graduate these features to beta in a future release.  In addition, a number of reliability and performance enhancements were made across the node to help operators in production.

### OpenStack

- cloud.google.com/go/automl: v1.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/baremetalsolution: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/batch: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/beyondcorp: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/billing: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/binaryauthorization: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/certificatemanager: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/channel: v1.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/cloudbuild: v1.9.0

* CRI: `kubectl logs -f` now stops following when container stops, as it did pre-CRI. ([#44406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44406), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

Other notable changes include:
* CoreDNS replaces kube-dns as the default DNS provider

- kubeadm: fixed ignoring errors when pulling control plane images ([#80529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80529), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Kubelet now defaults to pulling the pause image from registry.k8s.io ([#114341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114341), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Added kubelet metrics to track the memory manager allocation and pinning. ([#121778](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121778), [@Tal-or](https://github.com/Tal-or))

An alternative implementation of the `CronJob` controller is now available as an alpha feature in this release, which has experimental performance improvement by using informers instead of polling. While this will be the default behavior in the future, you can [try them in this release through a feature gate](https://docs.k8s.io/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs/).

### PID Limits graduates to General Availability

- cloud.google.com/go/automl: v1.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/baremetalsolution: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/batch: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/beyondcorp: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/billing: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/binaryauthorization: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/certificatemanager: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/channel: v1.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/cloudbuild: v1.9.0