* Flex drivers by default do not produce metrics. Flex plugins can enable metrics collection by setting  the capability 'supportsMetrics' to true. Make sure the file system can support fs stat to produce metrics in this case. ([#67508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67508), [@brahmaroutu](https://github.com/brahmaroutu))

* New flag --endpoint-updates-batch-period in kube-controller-manager can be used to reduce number of endpoints updates generated by pod changes. ([#80509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80509), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* kubeadm now produces error during preflight checks if swap is enabled. Users, who can setup kubelet to run in unsupported environment with enabled swap, will be able to skip that preflight check. ([#55399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55399), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

  can also be scheduled to nodes with `GA` labels. ([#118923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118923), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- Updated the generic apiserver library to produce an error if a new API server is configured with support for a data format other than JSON, YAML, or Protobuf. ([#121325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121325), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery]

- In the course of admitting a single request, the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy plugin will perform no more than one authorization check per unique authorizer expression. All evaluations of identical authorizer expressions will produce the same decision. ([#116443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116443), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests. ([#102665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102665), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Changed buildmode of non static Kubernetes binaries to produce position independent executables (PIE). ([#102323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102323), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- Reduce default NodeStatusReportFrequency to 5 minutes. With this change, periodic node status updates will be send every 5m if node status doesn't change (otherwise they are still send with 10s).

- Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#87900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87900), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

the corresponding iteration value will not be produced. If a map entry is
created during iteration, that entry may be produced during the iteration or
may be skipped. The choice may vary for each entry created and from one
iteration to the next.
If the map is <code>nil</code>, the number of iterations is 0.
</li>

<li>
For channels, the iteration values produced are the successive values sent on

* allow windows mount path ([#51240](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51240), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Reduce log noise produced by prometheus-to-sd, by bumping it to version 0.2.2. ([#54635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54635), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))