* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44421), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))


#### Application autoscaling

- Kubeadm: enabled the --experimental-watch-progress-notify-interval flag for etcd and set it to 5s. The flag specifies an interval at which etcd sends watch data to the kube-apiserver. ([#111383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111383), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

* The PodSecurityPolicy annotation `kubernetes.io/psp` on pods is only set once on create. ([#55486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55486), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* dockershim: check the error when syncing the checkpoint. ([#52125](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52125), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* By default, clusters on GCE no longer sends RequestReceived audit event, if advanced audit is configured. ([#52343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52343), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

* For admission webhooks registered for DELETE operations on k8s built APIs or CRDs, the apiserver now sends the existing object as admissionRequest.Request.OldObject to the webhook.  ([#76346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76346), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44421), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))

- Disruption controller only sends one event per PodDisruptionBudget if scale can't be computed ([#98128](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98128), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent)) [SIG Apps]

- 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).

- Spedup kubectl by >10 when calling out to kube-apiserver for discovery information. ([#73345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73345), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
- Fixed watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Send an error on `ResultChan` and close the `RetryWatcher` when the client is forbidden or unauthorized from watching the resource. ([#126038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126038), [@mprahl](https://github.com/mprahl)) [SIG API Machinery]