* Fixed a bug which could prevent a provider ID from ever being set for node if an error occurred determining the provider ID when the node was added. ([#87043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87043), [@zjs](https://github.com/zjs))

* Limit use of tags when calling EC2 API to prevent API throttling for very large clusters ([#76749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76749), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))

## Changelog since v1.11.8

### Other notable changes

* Prevent AWS Network Load Balancer security groups ingress rules to be deleted by ensuring target groups are tagged. ([#73594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73594), [@masterzen](https://github.com/masterzen))

* kubectl apply now supports explicitly clearing values not present in the config by setting them to null ([#40630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40630), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Bump debian-iptables image to v11.0.1 to fix security vulnerabilities. ([#75077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75077), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
* Prevent AWS Network Load Balancer security groups ingress rules to be deleted by ensuring target groups are tagged. ([#73594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73594), [@masterzen](https://github.com/masterzen))

* hpa: Prevent scaling below MinReplicas if desiredReplicas is zero ([#48997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48997), [@johanneswuerbach](https://github.com/johanneswuerbach))
* Kubelet CRI: move seccomp from annotations to security context. ([#46332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46332), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* fix UnmountDevice failure on Windows ([#68608](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68608), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* adjusted http/2 buffer sizes for apiservers to prevent starvation issues between concurrent streams ([#67902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67902), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubeadm: prevent overriding of certain kubelet security configuration parameters if the user wished to modify them ([#81903](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81903), [@jfbai](https://github.com/jfbai))

ParameterList = ParameterDecl { "," ParameterDecl } .
ParameterDecl = [ IdentifierList ] [ "..." ] Type .
</pre>

<p>
Within a list of parameters or results, the names (IdentifierList)
must either all be present or all be absent. If present, each name
stands for one item (parameter or result) of the specified type and
all non-<a href="#Blank_identifier">blank</a> names in the signature
must be <a href="#Uniqueness_of_identifiers">unique</a>.