* Fixed a race condition causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking. ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Fixed a rare race condition in kube-apiserver that could lead to missing events when a watch API request was created at the same time kube-apiserver was re-initializing its internal watch. ([#116172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116172), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

* fix vmss dirty cache issue in disk attach/detach on vmss node ([#85158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85158), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* fix race condition when attach/delete azure disk in same time ([#84917](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84917), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fixed a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently. ([#117249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117249), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* Fix a race condition in the scheduler preemption logic that could cause nominatedNodeName of a pod not to be considered in one or more scheduling cycles. ([#72504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72504), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

* Fix a race condition in the scheduler preemption logic that could cause nominatedNodeName of a pod not to be considered in one or more scheduling cycles. ([#72504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72504), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

* Fixed missing error checking that could cause kubelet to crash in a race condition. ([#60962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60962), [@technicianted](https://github.com/technicianted))
* Bump Heapster to v1.5.2 ([#61396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61396), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

* Increase Azure default maximumLoadBalancerRuleCount to 250. ([#72621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72621), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* fix race condition issue for smb mount on windows ([#75371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75371), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- EndpointSlice controller now handles terminating pods correctly and is better at preventing race conditions. ([#89118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89118), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]