* The ability to use kubectl scale jobs is deprecated. All other scale operations remain in place, but the ability to scale jobs will be removed in a future release.  ([#60139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60139), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

* [GCE] Enable by default audit logging truncating backend. ([#68342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68342), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

  without risking breaking old clients, such as controllers.

- `kubectl delete` no longer scales down workload API objects before deletion.
  Users who depend on ordered termination for the Pods of their StatefulSets
  must use `kubectl scale` to scale down the StatefulSet before deletion.

- `kubectl run --env` no longer supports CSV parsing. To provide multiple environment

* StatefulSets now include an alpha scaling feature accessible by setting the `spec.podManagementPolicy` field to `Parallel`.  The controller will not wait for pods to be ready before adding the other pods, and will replace deleted pods as needed.  Since parallel scaling creates pods out of order, you cannot depend on predictable membership changes within your set. ([#44899](https://github.com/kuberne...

- Replace scale down forbidden window with scale down stabilization window. Rather than waiting a fixed period of time between scale downs HPA now scales down to the highest recommendation it during the scale down stabilization window. ([#68122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68122), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))...

* Fix potential panic when getting azure load balancer status ([#68609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68609), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.2 to pick up security fixes. ([#76762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76762), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* StatefulSet: Fix to fully preserve restart and termination order when StatefulSet is rapidly scaled up and down. ([#45113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45113), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.2 to pick up security fixes. ([#76762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76762), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

  - Include taints by condition when determining if a node is unready/still starting
  - Fix `update-vendor.sh` to work on OSX and zsh
  - Add best-effort eviction for DaemonSet pods while scaling down non-empty nodes
  - Add build support for ARM64
  
  ### AliCloud
  - Add missing daemonsets and replicasets to ALI example cluster role
  
  ### Apache CloudStack