### SIG Cloud Provider

- The cloudstack cloud provider now reports a `Hostname` address type for nodes based on the `local-hostname` metadata key. ([#67719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67719), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kube-apiserver now reports latency metric for JWT authenticator authenticate token decisions in the `apiserver_authentication_jwt_authenticator_latency_seconds` metric, labeled by jwtIssuer hash and result. ([#123225](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123225), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))

- Events reported for container creation, start, and stop now report the container name in the message and are more consistently formatted. ([#73892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73892), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Profiling is enabled by default in the scheduler ([#84835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84835), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))
- Scheduler now reports metrics on cache size including nodes, pods, and assumed pods ([#83508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83508), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi))

- The feature gate "SkipReadOnlyValidationGCE" has been removed.  This gate has been active for 2 releases with no reports of issues (and was such a niche thing, we didn't expect any). ([#124210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124210),...

regression that could incorrectly reject pods with OutOfCpu errors if they were rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108749), [@bobbypage](...

- Added a kubelet metric `container_aligned_compute_resources_count`  to report the count of containers getting aligned compute resources. ([#127155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127155), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- It will promote windows graceful shutdown feature from alpha to beta. ([#133062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133062), [@zylxjtu](https://github.com/zylxjtu)) [SIG Windows]
- Kube-apiserver now reports the last configuration hash as a label in
  
  - `apiserver_authentication_config_controller_last_config_info` metric after successfully loading the authentication configuration file.

SIG Windows focused on improving reliability for Windows and Kubernetes support

## New Features

- kubelet: When node lease feature is enabled, kubelet reports node status to api server only if there is some change or it didn't report over last report interval. ([#69753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69753), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

Kubernetes environment, there is a compatibility issue with certain virtualization products. Specifically the Windows version of the kubelet.exe calls `GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory` to get the physical memory installed on Windows machines and reports it as part of node metrics to heapster. This API call fails for VMware and VirtualBox virtualization environments. This issue is not present in bare metal Windows deployments, in Hyper-V, or on some of the popular public cloud providers.

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