### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

collection algorithm. As a result, we observed an increase in memory usage for kube-apiserver in larger an heavily loaded clusters up to ~25% (with the benefit of API call latencies drop by up to 10x on 99th percentiles). If the memory increase is not acceptable for you you can mitigate by setting GOGC env variable (for our tests using GOGC=63 brings memory usage back to original value, although the exact value may depend on usage patterns on your cluster). ([#108870](https://github.com/kubernetes...

- Fixed a potential deadlock in the resource quota controller. Enabled recording partial usage info for quota objects specifying multiple resources, when only some of the resources' usage can be determined. ([#74747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74747), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Introduces a metric source for HPAs which allows scaling based on container resource usage. ([#90691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90691), [@arjunrn](https://github.com/arjunrn)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Autoscaling and CLI]
- Kube-apiserver now deletes expired kube-apiserver Lease objects:

      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to
      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*
      endpoints, rather than waiting until all of the terminating
      endpoints have terminated even when those terminating endpoints
      were not being used.
  

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

### Feature

- Fix: get azure disk lun timeout issue ([#88158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88158), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed `threadSafeMap` high memory usage caused by indices that have churn of high-cardinality keys. E.g. namespaces ([#88007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88007), [@patrickshan](https://github.com/patrickshan)) [SIG API Machinery]

- kube-controller-manager currently needs a writable `--cert-dir` (default is `/var/run/kubernetes`) for generating self-signed certificates, when no `--tls-cert-file` or `--tls-private-key-file` are provided....

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- IPVS: Any ipvs scheduler can now be configured. If a un-usable scheduler is configured `kube-proxy` will re-start and the logs must be checked (same as before but different log printouts). ([#114878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114878), [@uablrek](https://github.com/uablrek))