* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))
* Allow ScaleIO volumes to be provisioned without having to first manually create /dev/disk/by-id path on each kubernetes node (if not already present) ([#66174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66174), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))

* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))
* kube-scheduler: restores ability to run without authentication configuration lookup permissions ([#71755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Changelog since v1.14.6

### Other notable changes

* When the number of jobs exceeds 500, cronjob should schedule without error. ([#77475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77475), [@liucimin](https://github.com/liucimin))

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these...

* Fix a bug in GCE multizonal clusters where PersistentVolumes were sometimes created in zones without nodes. ([#52322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52322), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

- Kubeadm: add the deprecated flag --port=0 to kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler manifests to disable insecure serving. Without this flag the components by default serve (e.g. /metrics) insecurely on the default node interface (controlled by --address). Users that wish to override this behavior and enable insecure serving can pass a custom --port=X via kubeadm's "extraArgs"...

## Major Themes

### SIG API Machinery

SIG API work this cycle involved development of the "dry run" functionality, which enables users to see the results of a particular command without persisting those changes.

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API

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#### Azure

- The API server now detects and fails on startup if there are conflicting issuers between JWT authenticators and service account...