* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))
* kubeadm: clean up exited containers and network checkpoints ([#43836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43836), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

* [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))
    * [prometheus-to-sd addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to 0.3.1 to pick up security fixes, bug fixes and new features.
    * [event-exporter addon] Bump event-exporter to 0.2.3 to pick up security fixes.

- [stackdriver addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

* [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))
    * [prometheus-to-sd addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to 0.3.1 to pick up security fixes, bug fixes and new features.
    * [event-exporter addon] Bump event-exporter to 0.2.3 to pick up security fixes.

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

credentials have not been used in the time specified by `--legacy-service-account-token-clean-up-period` (defaulting to one year), **and** are referenced from the `.secrets` list of a ServiceAccount object, **and**  are not referenced from pods. This label causes the authentication layer to reject use of the credentials. After being labeled as invalid, if the time specified by `--legacy-service-account-token-clean-up-period` (defaulting to one year) passes without the credential being used, the secret is...