- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures

- Removed the generally available feature gate `ExpandedDNSConfig`.
   ([#122086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122086), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))
- Removed the generally available feature gate `KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable`.
   ([#122138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122138), [@ii2day](https://github.com/ii2day))
- Removed the generally available feature gate `KubeletPodResources`.

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_lower_limit_seats`: Configured lower bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_upper_limit_seats`: Configured upper bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level

- When the kubelet fails to assign CPUs to a Pod because there less available CPUs than the Pod requests, the error message changed from
  `not enough cpus available to satisfy request` to `not enough cpus available to satisfy request: <num_requested> requested, only <num_available> available`. ([#121059](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121059), [@matte21](https://github.com/matte21))